Spotted in the “guestbar” at Boing Boing: A Dictionary of Units of Measurement: A nice collection. The magnificent world of “tetrads”, “farthingdales” and “lippies”. Did you know that “nox” was a unit of (low) illumination used in Germany during World War II to describe permitted levels of lighting during air raids? Or that we ought [...]
Through the Wire
"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
January 3rd, 2004
Ambient Telepresence
John Perry Barlow has discovered iChat AV: The really interesting shift occurred as we drifted back to what we’d been doing before we started chatting, leaving the audio channel open as we’d did so. We could hear each other typing. One of my daughters entered the room and spoke to me. Joi heard her and [...]
January 3rd, 2004
Rollers
Jon Udell catches the attention of local law enforcement: The last time we visited my wife’s family there, several years ago, schools were the only source of broadband access. Since two of my sisters-in-law are teachers, I was able to visit their classrooms and jack in. This time, I found a dozen access points in [...]