Monthly Archives: February 2004

So, you’re an Oxford University engineering student. You somehow get invited to give some lectures to economics students in Bejing because you have the same name as a New York-based economist. What do you do? You go, of course, and … Read More →

Wired looks at local film giant, Kodak, and its struggle to remain alive in the digital age. They haven’t been getting a lot of good press lately, including the news that noted financier Carl Icahn has sold off all his … Read More →

The new Napster is bleeding cash, and losing executives. They’ve begun layoffs this week. Oddly enough, they could have been on HP’s PC desktop instead of Apple’s iTunes Music Store, but something caused HP to back away.

Boing Boing has this video of a guy having an accident in a car while not wearing a seatbelt, with no other explanation. It looks real, not fake, but you have to wonder about the convenient camera.

Intel, surprisingly, has responded to criticism from the open source community and promises more speedy Linux releases of its support software, including drivers for Centrino.

When I read about nerve cells grown on silicon all I can think of is that credit card commercial about identity theft and the voice of the hacker going “my girl robot.”

Meanwhile, back on Mars, the rovers may have found brine, indicating that there was water present in the past.

Your friends in the music business, the RIAA, have been sued under the federal anti-racketeering laws by one of the people they sued.