October 22, 2007
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Burma save
Pulling the Plug: A Technical Review of the Internet Shutdown in Burba (here’s the .pdf) has just been released by the Open Net Initiative, and the most important story it tells is about how the story is told. The summary: Burmese netizens, operating in a constrained and challenging space in a country with especially… Continue reading
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Getting out of Live Search hell
Live.com used to have a great map search that yielded very nice 3-d images of the landscape — much better than what you’d get with Google Maps. Worked on every browser I tried. Alas, this now appears to be a Windows-only thing. Now if I click on 3D, I get “Virtual Earth 3D is not… Continue reading
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Shortest wave
More than 100 times faster than WiFi? suggests that chips transmitting wirelessly in the 60GHz spectrum, where waves are milimeters long, would be a practical replacement for Wi-Fi, or other forms of wireless transmission. I think the advantages here are high, but over very short-ranges — feet or yards — given the relatively low penetrating… Continue reading
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News 0.2, cont’d
I’ve been looking for news about the Malibu Fire. Inciweb has nothing (though it does cover the Ranch Fire in the Ventura County back country, which has grown past 29,000 acres and looks kind of ominous, though hardly as sexy as one that drives celebrities into the sea). Technorati has 408 results as of this… Continue reading
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Stop and listen
Driving through the Maine countryside today, I realized suddenly that it was time for Hal Crowther to weigh in on Something Important again. Hal used to do this weekly back when we were both several decades younger and living in North Carolina. I’m long gone, but Hal’s still there, putting out essays no less interesting… Continue reading