MC Hawking’s Crib

Ok, “mix” a bit ‘o physics and a little rap and what do you get? Stephen Hawking doing songs like “A Brief History of Rhyme” and “E=MC Hawking.” It’s pretty funny. I think.

Babylon Dictionary and Information at your fingertips

With my limited vocabulary, I always wanted a way to quickly find the definition of those really fancy words I’d run across when reading online.

Sure, I could copy, type - http://www.dictionary.com - enter - paste - enter - read. A couple years ago that was cool enough, but of course we learn quickly to take things for granted

Along comes babylon which lets me highlight a word in any application, right click and BLAM!, instant definition with links to multiple related resources.

New Devices Augur Decent Mobile User Experience (Alertbox Sept. 2000)

Nielsen discusses the usability (or more accurately, the lack of it) of current mobile internet devices. He also reviews a few new entries which may indicate where it’s headed.

NewsMaps.com - Explore Landscapes of Information

Pretty cool concept. “Thousands of news articles, press releases and discussions, all mapped by topic onto a visual landscape.”

Doc Searls writes about AOL, Instant Messaging, and the open-source movement to “free” it from anyone’s ownership.

CNET.com: Will P2P companies thrive or die?

Some insight into the possibilities and market pitfals of the latest “computing paradigm of the future” - peer-to-peer computing.

Amazon backs away from test prices

Apparently, the sticky business about Amazon’s goofy pricing “policies” won’t happen again. It was only a “test.” mmm hmmm.

Since we’re all talking about OS X it seems, here’s Tog’s take.
AskTog: OS X, a First Look. He’s smart.

Weird, the guy who started fuckedcompany.com (Philip Kaplan) put the site on eBay this morning. He says, “I was bored this morning so I put FC on eBay. Bidding starts at $1.” CNET has the story.

A (suprising) article on flazoom.com titled A Cancer on the Web called Flash has some good advice,

The best way to combat the stereo-types that are developing is to be smarter about how we use Flash. Think about the problem that you are trying to solve before you open Flash and start working. Is Flash the only solution for that problem? Is Flash the most effective solution? Can you solve the problem with HTML? Think about the work you do and remember that what you put on the web is not for you, but for your visitors.