I would pay $20 a month for Instapaper if it let me select specific articles and output them wirelessly to a Kindle, complete with a TOC and sections. But in the meantime: my project for the first quarter of 2010 will be an application that pulls your starred articles from Google Reader, let’s you check off the ones you want, and outputs a... - http://dbreunig.tumblr.com/post...
Somehow this showed up in my RSS reader this morning.
I’ve only seen a one or two pieces lamenting the decline of newspapers that didn’t make me thankful for the internet. Do people really miss Beatle Baily? - http://dbreunig.tumblr.com/post...
Is Google going to become the computing platform for the enterprise? Is a bank going to run itself on Google? Is an airline going to run itself on Google? Is IBM going to run its supply chain on Google? Is Bharti Wireless going to run themselves on Google? Is the banking system of China that we’ve built going to be on Google? Is the Russian... - http://dbreunig.tumblr.com/post...
humancomputer:
“SCIENTISTS FROM THE RAND CORP. HAVE CREATED THIS MODEL TO ILLUSTRATE HOW A ‘HOME COMPUTER’ COULD LOOK IN THE YEAR 2004.”
I bet the new Apple Tablet will use a steering wheel interface. It’s about time. - http://dbreunig.tumblr.com/post...
Avatar is a fantasy about ceasing to be white, giving up the old human meatsack to join the blue people, but never losing white privilege. Jake never really knows what it’s like to be a Na’vi because he always has the option to switch back into human mode. Interestingly, Wikus in District 9 learns a very different lesson. He’s becoming alien and... - http://dbreunig.tumblr.com/post...
Illus. by E. Benyaminson for “Hello, I’m Robot!” by Stanislav Zigunenko (Russian Kids’ Book, 1989) (Via A Journey Round My Skull) - http://dbreunig.tumblr.com/post...
But let’s not dwell on the sentimentality of Cameron’s notion of aboriginal life—the movie is striking enough to make it irrelevant. Nor is there much point in lingering over the irony that this anti-technology message is delivered by an example of advanced technology that cost nearly two hundred and fifty million dollars to produce; or that this... - http://dbreunig.tumblr.com/post...
I do not suggest that nothing happened in the past ten years. Things happened; significant ones, good and bad. But much of what happened was not noteworthy for having happened, it was noteworthy for having been noted, despite not being particularly noteworthy. - http://dbreunig.tumblr.com/post...