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Mr. iPod on Zune
Steven Levy has a column about what could make the Zune better. He's not nearly as negative as Andy Uhnatko (whose article I blogged about here), but he certainly seems underwhelmed. Steven focuses on how Microsoft could put the Zune's wifiability to good use. As is acknowledged under the column, Steven is the author of a book about the iPod called The Perfect Thing, which gives you sense of where he stands on the iPod. (Not that you'd want to stand on your iPod.) I've been greatly enjoying the book even though I don't own an iPod, because (a) it's... From
Joho the Blog on November 26, 2006 at 9:49 p.m..
Open Source Gift Guide Rocks
Tech types, send your folks to MAKEzine to find something you can improve on this Christmas. From cool toys with a high hackability quotient to endless electronic projects, this gift list for the nerds in the family is a winner. In Gear Factor. From
Wired News on November 26, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..
Pre-Columbian accounting
Tom Munnecke at upliftacademy.org in email: Given that we have a health care system whose errors are a leading cause of death, an international development model that has invested $2.3 trillion with little or nothing to show for it, an educational system that is heading down a similar path, I guess I am glad to be [...] From
Internet Time Blog on November 26, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
Reviving the "CARE Package"?
I may spend too much time thinking about this, but how is it one reverses the hatred of a people after war? WWII was no doubt very different. But interestingly, Germans talk about this a lot -- about the brilliance in the American strategy after the war to rebuild (what we weirdly call) "friendship" between the German and American people. That strategy had a government component (2% of the GDP spent on the Marshall Plan) and a private component. The private component came largely through the delivery of "CARE Packages." As
described on CARE&ap From Lessig Blog on November 26, 2006 at 6:46 a.m..
Start the new year with a new ISP
Fifteen years on the net have led me to expect little or nothing from my Internet Service Provider (ISP). I’ve gone through lots of them, usually for service outages or downright lying to me. Earlier this year, I asked my sysop son to recommend an inexpensive but competent ISP. He suggested DreamHost. For less than [...] From
Internet Time Blog on November 25, 2006 at 11:45 p.m..