Category: Geek

Tech­nol­o­gy, Sci­ence, etc.

Why HDTV Isn’t Going Mainstream Anytime Soon

When you tell so many peo­ple that their elec­tron­ics won’t do what they should do—what they paid for them to do—many of them are not going to like it. Ars Tech­ni­ca has a great arti­cle on why HDCP, as well as oth­er con­tent pro­tec­tion sys­tems, are actu­al­ly going to dri­ve cus­tomers more towards pira­cy and,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Why HDTV Isn’t Going Main­stream Any­time Soon

Google Library

Sci-Fi author and blog­ger Cory Doc­torow has writ­ten an excel­lent arti­cle at Boing­Bo­ing on why Google Book Search is one of the great­est things to ever hap­pen to the inter­net. Typ­i­cal of his writ­ing, it’s well worth the read and he demon­strates, at least in this case, how Google’s build­ing of the new Library of… Con­tin­ue read­ing Google Library

The IT Crowd

I watched the first three episodes of Chan­nel 4’s The IT Crowd last night. IT’s a show done by the writer behind Father Ted, also a very fun­ny show. IT does­n’t dis­ap­point, either. IT is online at Chan­nel 4’s site, but only avail­able to UK res­i­dents. I’d love to see this for­mal­ly brought over to… Con­tin­ue read­ing The IT Crowd

The New(s) Source

Yes­ter­day, I wrote about how, after three months, Digg left a bad taste in mouth for Web2.0 news sites. Then I remem­bered an e‑mail that a friend had sent a month or so ear­li­er: My pal Trey recent­ly sent me an invite to Newsvine.com. It’s still in pri­vate Beta, but invites aren’t too hard to… Con­tin­ue read­ing The New(s) Source

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And You Thought My T‑Shirt Was Cool

…and you thought my t‑shirt was cool. Online pub­lish­er Blurb has announced their “slurp­er” that will grab con­tent from you blog and turn it into a very slick look­ing cof­fee table book. I real­ly love the idea of bring the online world into the phys­i­cal world, and these books look very nice.

CSS Tip

Well, the keen read­er may notice I’m play­ing around with the style of this site some. One lit­tle CSS tip that I can pass on, for those of you who care to know: dif­fer­ent browsers han­dle the error of replac­ing { with ( very dif­fer­ent­ly. Where­as Opera 8.0 and IE6 try their best to cope,… Con­tin­ue read­ing CSS Tip

Dugg To Death

This week is sort of Media-Week here at super-struc­­ture, where I tell every­one about my per­son­al news fil­ters. Yeah, and in teh begin­ning, there was Slash­dot, and it was good. News of tech­nol­o­gy flowed from the mouths of geeks and they were hap­py in their green light. Then came forth the trolls and the fan­boys… Con­tin­ue read­ing Dugg To Death

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Seeds of Joy

Seed Mag­a­zine I just fin­ished read­ing through my sec­ond issue of Seed mag­a­zine, as I was con­sid­er­ing get­ting a sub­scrip­tion. It’s already been on the news­stand for a year or so, but I tend to be behind the curve on these sorts of things. The mag­a­zine, which comes out bi-mon­th­­ly, is fan­tas­tic read­ing. It has… Con­tin­ue read­ing Seeds of Joy