Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

I must confess that I am a little taken aback that someone of Doc Searls experience and reputation would not try the obvious before wasting hist time.
So now I’m in Palo Alto, where I’ve wasted 45 minutes trying to figure out where Earthlink hides its SMTP setting info. Try looking for “SMTP” in Earthlink’s site [...]

The NYT today reports on how Enron forced up electricity prices in California through, at best, questionable means.
So much for all those “pundits” who proclaimed so loudly at the time that it was because California hadn’t deregulated their market enough or soon enough. From the looks of it California should NOThave deregulated their market at [...]

Well I confess I’ll probably go see the movie because I was a big Spidey fan when I was younger but I’m not certain I’ll really enjoy it. Like most derivatives from “literature” it won’t stimulate one’s imagination the way reading a book (comic or otherwise)requires of the reader. I find I am nearly always [...]

In a spirit of absolutely NO taste or class whatsoever I present you with a link to the Suicide Bombing Game
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Geez the least they could have done was get the sex right
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commentating and speaking — or trying to anyway.Take the What Blogging Archetype Are You test at GAZM.org
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A new process developed by researchers in the Process Technology Group at Warwick University in England has vastly improved the efficiency of extracting hydrogen from human wet waste and pulp mill byproducts.
The process can be run continuously because pure hydrogen is extracted through a palladium-coated ceramic semi-permeable membrane that blocks other gases. If the hydrogen [...]

With the publication of this data the world took yet another step closer to the world of George Orwell’s 1984 and Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange
While I imagine there may be potential benefits to this research in treating some human motor control diseases the risks for abuse are enormous. THere is definite cause for ethical [...]

There’s a fascinating article on the New Scientist website regarding a japanese researcher that is creating totally artificial voice system based on the human voice. That is, it is complete with its own lung, windpipe, vocal cords and throat.
The idea is to make interacting with robots more natural. Unlike the stilted metallic utterances of [...]

LawMeme has an intersting article on Jamie Kellner the chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting. According to Kellner, and he was serious dear reader, if you change channels during commercials you are guilty of theft. THere’s more, unfortunately and it only gets worse. Read the article to see how bad it gets.
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Thinking more on my previous post regarding the Peruvian response to Microsoft’s whining, I am reminded of a quote from Robert Heinlen:
“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of [...]