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Documentation has been discovered that illustrates how early techno-humans operated their ancient data processing machines.
a computer glossary or, coming to terms with the data processing machine from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

There’s been some controversy on the web in the last few days regarding the fair and reasonable enforcement by a website of their Terms Of Service (TOS).
You can read all about the Ariel Waldman vs. Twitter dust up on Ariel’s blog or in one of the many discussions going on in both Twitter and Friendfeed [...]

I feel it’s my obligation to warn others about developing issues kept out of the mainstream media by those who wish us to remain ignorant (note: I remain ignorant by choice, but other people are kept ignorant by the suppression of information like that I’m about to reveal.)
Thanks to revelations reported by whistleblowers and other [...]

If you, like me, watch The Daily Show, you’ve no doubt seen Demetri Martin on occasion doing a techy report or a story about the newest fad among the twenty-somethings. I just came across a few pretty good Martin quotes. His writing reminds me a lot of Steven Wright’s.
- I wonder what the most intelligent [...]

Every muscle requires exercise to remain in top form. Your arms, legs and abdomen all benefit from regular workouts. As we age, all our muscles tend to atrophy, to grow lax and become less efficient. We need to work harder at keeping them firm and working at their best. Why should our brain be any [...]

The next must-have, urban-geek cool gadget. I’m putting it on my wish list.

[tags]Microsoft, Surface, touch-screen, emerging technology[/tags]

Another cool tool and member of the GoogleEarth family has been released.  Here’s John Hanke’s explanation of Google’s Lat Long Blog,
Welcome to the Google “geo” blog. As web mapping (dare I say “the geoweb”?) matures, we’re finding that we have a lot more to communicate about new developments in Earth, Maps, Local, and our APIs. [...]

According to a recent New York Times article, the presence of laptops in the classroom is being reconsidered.
The students at Liverpool High have used their school-issued laptops to exchange answers on tests, download pornography and hack into local businesses. When the school tightened its network security, a 10th grader not only found a way around [...]

I came across my Aiptek HyperPen USB digital tablet today and was able to download the drivers for XP (I had previously run it under 98SE). With it installed, I now have a much better input device for use with Photoshop and Paint.net. I even found a way to use my Aiptek in [...]

Honestly, sporks are magical, mysterious, wondrous.  They must be the utensils of the gods.  Their design is perfect, which is evidence of a divine designer…most likely an employee of Taco Bell.

As we can see from this detailed and scientifically accurate image, sporks are direct descendants of the common fork and spoon.  Millions of years of [...]

Linux is my primary operating system, at home and at work.  On both my desktop and laptop, you’ll usually find me using PCLos .92, though I occasionally boot into SUSE 10.1 or Fedora Core 6 for a change of pace.  I’m very much a Linux advocate, so you will understand why I enjoyed the following [...]

I want to thank Sean for getting my access restored for this site. Somehow I got locked out since my last post. You know how juke joints are, you have to know the secret handshake or password. Forget it, and you are standing in the alley listening to the faint sound of [...]

It’s soon to be 4 years of my interest in and association with Lockergnome and its captain Chris Pirillo.
I admire Chris a great deal.  Not just for being one of the most interesting and informed geeks I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with.  He’s an amazing person at a more basic level.  He’s a decent [...]

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