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Dead, Dead, Dead. Someday Soon We'll All
Be Dead.

Dead, Dead, Dead. Someday Soon We'll All
Be Dead. 12/02/2003 10:13 PM
I had a 120gig SATA Hard drive in my G5. It died. Dead blocks all over. My last full backup...

Dead pixels instead of dead trees

Dead pixels instead of dead trees 12/22/2004 01:49 AM

I love books, I love browsing stacks, I love libraries, I love Powell's in Portland, I like collecting books, I always have a stack nearby to read, I love looking through picture books, and I love books even though I didn't really become much of a reader until the end of my college years (I never read for fun until then). Plunging into the Internet fed my book addiction further, as I had to read dozens of computer classics to get up to speed and stay ahead of the curve. Every computer desk I've had until recently was flanked by bookshelves loaded with titles.

Earlier this year, I remember hearing Cory Doctorow give a talk about how ebooks were going to rule the world and folks would abandon the printed page for the laptop screen. I thought it was a good talk, but I felt the thesis was a bit ahead of its time. There's really no comparison between curling up with a book and a blanket in front of a fireplace, versus trying to read thousands of words on a screen.

Last weekend I was doing some house cleaning and I kept finding stacks of books. A stack next to the reading chairs. A stack on the coffee table. A stack beside my bed. All these stacks contained books I bought in 2004, but never read. Some, I got halfway through, but even more I got maybe ten pages in. A few I never even cracked open.

When I think back to the last three books I enjoyed, they were all heard on my iPod, while on a road trip. I can't recall the last book I finished in my hands.

I'm going to take a holiday trip soon to a fairly remote location where there's not much to do besides read. I'm going to sit and read the only book I've wanted to read this year, and I have a feeling it might just be one of the last dead tree books I read for a long time.

As much as I didn't agree with Cory back during his E-tech talk, I'm finally realizing it's coming true in my own life. I read thousands of words everyday on my monitors and I rarely take time to read anything on the printed page, and there's no sign of reversal on that trend. The scariest thing for the bookfan inside me is that I don't think it's bad thing, either.

Long live the ebook. Long live the audiobook. So long, dead trees.

Dead Like Me - Dead or Alive?

Dead Like Me - Dead or Alive? 02/01/2005 09:59 PM
In television these days, there is hardly a show that doesn’t have the blood flowing or the boobies showing. It is hard to find a show that makes it on wit alone. Till a few weeks ago, I thought I had found the saving grace with Showtime’s original show, Dead Like Me. I guess a few executives didn’t share my opinion. The fight is far from over though. In the past shows would have died…

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Virtually every religious faction is
laying claim to the Bill Murray classic
as a relevant religious allegory

Virtually every religious faction is
laying claim to the Bill Murray classic
as a relevant religious allegory 12/08/2003 09:16 AM
One film unites all religions .. Groundhog Almighty .. New York Times

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"The Religious Policeman: ?A Saudi man?s
diary of life in the ?Magic Kingdom?,
where the Religious Police ensure that
everything remains as it was in the
Middle Ages?"

"The Religious Policeman: ?A Saudi man?s
diary of life in the ?Magic Kingdom?,
where the Religious Police ensure that
everything remains as it was in the
Middle Ages?" 04/21/2004 03:41 PM

WAP Is Dead?

WAP Is Dead? 08/10/2004 07:27 PM
The Feature Aug 10 2004 11:14PM GMT

dead, dead, dead

dead, dead, dead 12/03/2003 06:09 PM

Wow, they really did kill MP3.com. So much of the net's history gone in a flash, I do hope they create some mechanism (that isn't laden with DRM) to bring back music hosting or anyone that can record a song at home on their PC.

I bet GarageBand.com takes off in the absence of MP3.com, they were like a better version, though they require users and musicians to actively participate for it to work.

DOS -- not dead yet

DOS -- not dead yet 12/05/2003 03:21 AM
DOS -- that's a word you may not have heard in a while. After all, Microsoft proudly claimed "DOS is dead" when it released Windows XP. DOS is a stable and well-known operating system, but the same can be said for Linux, and some might argue that even Windows XP has become stable. So why would you run DOS when you have these newer, better operating systems?

Yes, It's Still Dead

Yes, It's Still Dead 09/06/2004 11:22 PM
6 long years after the introduction of the bondi-blue iMac, reporters are still writing about the death of floppy disk.
Well, at least it's still better read than the upcoming death of Apple Computer, Inc.

The pop-up ad is dead (nearly)

The pop-up ad is dead (nearly) 02/18/2004 05:55 AM
Europe in brief

The PC Is Not Dead

The PC Is Not Dead 03/22/2005 03:39 PM

Is the PDA dead?

Is the PDA dead? 06/02/2004 07:51 PM

Not Dead.

Not Dead. 04/19/2004 01:33 AM
I'd better leave this on here for the night so I don't wake up to a deluge of email tomorrow morning. The Zen Garden has been down all day, as has been well reported by now. A whois comes...

Ten gig FC is all but dead

Ten gig FC is all but dead 04/02/2005 07:23 AM
TechWorld Apr 2 2005 11:18AM GMT

One slip and you're dead!

One slip and you're dead! 07/02/2004 08:15 AM
One slip and you're dead!
Marine cone snails are among the most venomous animals in existence, some producing as many as 100 different toxins. Due to their unique properties, the toxins are in hot demand for neuroscience research. Most researchers obtain the toxins from dead specimens, but one upstate New York biochemist is trying to farm them. Milking time is dangerous...

Dead Ends

Dead Ends 11/13/2003 08:46 PM
Next Carnival Host .. Dead Ends .. Max

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Things to do on the Net when you're dead

Things to do on the Net when you're dead 11/13/2003 12:26 PM
Mylastemail.com

She's dead, Jim.

She's dead, Jim. 03/31/2005 12:11 PM
Terry Schiavo has died.

"Dead Ends"

"Dead Ends" 11/12/2003 10:23 PM

The Danger of the Dead

The Danger of the Dead 08/02/2004 04:36 AM
Across the country, coroners and health officials are figuring out how to dispose of hundreds or thousands of infectious corpses in case of a terrorist attack. By Randy Dotinga.

A Third of the Dead Are Said to Be
Children

A Third of the Dead Are Said to Be
Children 12/28/2004 03:02 AM
Survivors arranged for mass burials and searched for tens of thousands of the missing in countries thousands of miles apart.

Dead-end job memoir

Dead-end job memoir 01/09/2004 09:56 PM
This is the first of a two-part Salon piece on working at a dead-end customer service job in North Carolina. This genre of memoir is really compelling to me, maybe because I'm so thankful to not have a job like that, but also because it's the 21st Century equivalent of Orwell's labor-condition memoirs like Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier.

This was the awakening, the realization that I had officially and for all time put my head in a noose and the hangman was taking his sweet time. And that's the day I officially stopped caring. Never stay late. Never work overtime. Never offer opinions. Do not go the extra mile. At one time, I offered to train new employees, without a raise in my salary, just so that I could take the time to train them more thoroughly (training was fast becoming an afterthought, as people were needed immediately to answer phones. It didn't matter what they knew how to do). The problem was that the people who were training me told me as much, and I refused to believe them. But the equation was simple: Management is entrenched. They're not going anywhere. The department is too unwieldy from turnover to create another position. So why would management struggle to improve the call-taker's lot?

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Update: Dan points out that the full texts of Down and Out in Paris and London and Road to Wigan Pier are online.

Panther Bug: Is It Really Dead?

Panther Bug: Is It Really Dead? 11/06/2003 11:07 AM
Apple says the hard-drive-eating glitch in the latest upgrade to its OS X operating system is fixed. But others say the problem lives on, affecting multiple devices that use FireWire, including camcorders. By Leander Kahney.

Sorry About the Dead Cow... (Reuters)

Sorry About the Dead Cow... (Reuters) 06/03/2004 10:43 AM
Reuters - British artist Damien Hirst, who uses dead animals in his work, promised to apologize for a "mix-up" Thursday, after a rotting cow was left outside his studio over a long holiday weekend.

Is programming dead?

Is programming dead? 04/26/2004 08:56 AM
ZDNet Apr 26 2004 1:08PM GMT

"I sue dead people..."

"I sue dead people..." 02/05/2005 09:26 PM
The RIAA has done some MIND BLOWINGLY stupid things in the past, but this one actually had me baffled! According to a report from Ars Technica, it seems that the RIAA has gone after a deceased woman in order to get what they feel they have coming to them. Yes folks, these idiots actually tried to sue someone who has already passed on. Worst part was, I have seen no evidence of an apology for…

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"I already feel I'm dead"

"I already feel I'm dead" 09/15/2004 11:55 AM
Is Iraq descending into civil war? As the seemingly indiscriminate violence spreads, many are worried that it is.

Dawn of the dead?

Dawn of the dead? 08/31/2004 01:55 PM
David Pescovitz: A fertility scientist at the Kentucky Center for Reproductive Medicine, Panayiotis Zavo, claims to have taken cells from dead humans and cloned them. He stopped short of implanting the embryos, but the scientific community is in an uproar. According to New Scientist, one of three cases used DNA from a young girl killed in an automobile wreck. Apparently her parents kept the tissue in the refrigerator for a few days until sending them along to the maverick scientist.

“This man preys on the strong desires of the most vulnerable people in society - giving them false hopes,” says Robin Lovell-Badge, head of developmental genetics at the UK's National Institute for Medical Research. Other scientists argue that, even if cloning a person were possible, the risk of major birth defects is huge.

Zavos's claims have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Link

Useful Dead Technologies

Useful Dead Technologies 02/01/2005 09:18 PM
As time progresses, we expect technology to progress as well. It doesn't always do so. Whether from corporate greed or corporate stupidity or just plain evil orneryness, some very good technologies have been allowed to die, usually being replaced by something vastly inferior and sometimes not being replaced at all. Listed here are some technologies that were very useful, but have become not more useful but less; or died off completely. These are good and useful technologies that have been superceded by less useful and usually very annoying technologies.

"Libeling A Dead Man"

"Libeling A Dead Man" 02/13/2004 02:37 PM

Spears is Dead

Spears is Dead 05/18/2004 09:13 PM
Sleep with me, I'm not too young. Backmasking in Britney Spears song?

Who says theory is dead?

Who says theory is dead? 07/06/2004 08:37 AM
Gender-theory superstar Judith Butler takes on 9/11 and its aftermath in a new book -- written in clear English! But the task of postmodern theory, she argues, is more crucial now than ever.

Sun: UltraSPARC Not Dead Yet

Sun: UltraSPARC Not Dead Yet 04/15/2004 12:55 PM
Sun's top microprocessor executive now says the UltraSPARC V may come to market after all, following the recent refocusing of the company's roadmap.

NYC to GOP: Drop Dead

NYC to GOP: Drop Dead 08/19/2004 05:55 AM
COLUMNIST WARNS: BAD TIMES AHEAD FOR GOP CONVENTIONEERS IN NYC

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dead but lifelike

dead but lifelike 09/17/2004 12:57 AM
JAMES LILEKS: .. Lileks

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The fax machine: not dead yet

The fax machine: not dead yet 12/31/2003 01:10 PM
BBC News article about the lowly fax machine and how it hangs on in the face of email, text messaging, and the everything else that...

Dead Bug Funeral Kit

Dead Bug Funeral Kit 11/17/2003 07:47 PM
From David Barringer's site: The Dead Bug Funeral Kit comes with an Illustrated Buggy Book of Eulogies with Ribbon Bookmark, Casket, Grave Marker, White Clay Flower, Burial Scroll, and Pouch of Grass Seed. "We are deeply saddened by your loss. We hope the Dead Bug Kit will honor your bug." Link (Thanks, Invi sible Cowgirl!)

Are Taxonomies Dead?

Are Taxonomies Dead? 01/09/2004 09:58 PM

The taxonomy was always supposed to be the be-all and end-all of information architecture. A good, solid category structure was how all the information in an enterprise was supposed to fit together.

But they're harder to build than you think. There are shades of gray and complications. You need related categories so people can jump from branch to branch; you can slice information so many different ways; who can agree where something fits, etc. I've tried to build a half-dozen, but I can't point to any major successes.

Is the ideal of taxonomy possible? Or is it just better to invest in a good search engine? Think about it, when you visit a site, do you ever browse a taxonomy, or do you just go right to search? If you're looking for something you've seen on this site, do you wade through the category list, or just hit the search engine?

When was the last time you actually browsed Yahoo! or DMOZ? I know they're there, but I haven't visited them in ages. Last time I did visit, what was the first thing I did? That's right — typed something into the search box.

Search is a lazy man's taxonomy. It's not as organized or structured as a taxonomy, but human beings — imperfect creatures than we are — tend to settle to what's easier. So, as an information architect, do you stand on principle, or do you cater to the lazy way your users are going to look for information?

This comes from my current infatuation with wikis. There is no categorizing of pages in wikis (even after my railin g against all their shortcomings a few months ago), there's just search and linking between pages. But the search is good, and it always seems to work. Same with the search on this site — when I'm looking for a previous post, it just always seems to work, and that search is nothing but a SQL "LIKE" query, the dumbest search of all.

So, are taxonomies an ideal that just don't survive the reality test?

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PPTP is Dead, Too

PPTP is Dead, Too 12/22/2004 01:27 AM
Microsoft's VPN protocol PPTP is now dead, too: It's been known for a while that MSCHAPv2 authentication was a bad idea, and PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) relies by default on this method of credentials. George Ou explains how Joshua Wright, developer of the Cisco LEAP breaking software Asleap has simply added PPTP breaking to the mix. Both protocols are weak enough that a weak key choice--short and found in a dictionary with some variation--can be broken by iterating through a very large database of precomputed password hashes that a cracker has put together in advance. They don't have to crack the authentication process, just grab the transaction and run it on their own computer against their hashes at a rate of 45 million passwords per second on a normal desktop computer, Ou writes. Laptops would be slightly slower. Ou notes that he thought LEAP and PPTP had similar weaknesses, and Wright's update--made only after contacting Microsoft and being quite decidedly rebuffed over his concern--shows he was correct. Long, complex, user-managed passwords can still protect PPTP because this is a brute-force attack. You can also switch to using EAP-TLS for the credential exchange in PPTP, but that then requires corporate public-key infrastructure. WPA has a similar problem with weak passwords but it's tied to an SSID. So you can't precompute generally for passwords as with the LEAP and PPTP weakness, but you could precompute passwords against common SSIDs, like linksys. Assuming, as wardrivers have discovered, that the vast majority of base stations have a default SSID, this makes it a little simpler, but not trivial. Likewise, only weak WPA passwords can be broken, so you're stuck for people who throw in a couple of exclamation points. I'm just testing Buffalo's new VPN (PPTP) router, and discovered that they set the default SSID to the MAC address of the unit, which, although ugly looking in a list of available networks, would defeat a precomputed default SSID password database. (Thanks to Robert Moskowitz for a prod to clarify this.) When I say a security protocol is dead, I don't mean that it's actually impossible to use. It's just that you can no longer use it with any degree of assurance that the purpose for which it was intended can be fulfilled. It's like driving a car with a cracked windshield. It keeps the bugs off, but it's not really safe to drive...
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