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Tart cards: illicit ads from London,
chronicled in new book

Tart cards: illicit ads from London,
chronicled in new book 12/08/2003 02:20 PM
A fine stocking stuffer idea for literate, wired pervs. On sale for under $20. Warning: do not confuse tart cards with tarot cards. Any attempt to read your future with tart cards may bring about truly hazardous results.

"This amusing, enlightening, and beautifully designed book explains the history and graphic/technical development of tart cards with over 400 examples in color. Tart cards are the means by which providers of sexual services advertise in London, and they have become as ubiquitous a symbol of that city as the red telephone boxes where they are found. The book also contains an eye-opening, comprehensive glossary of the suggestive and coded language they use. 128 pages, trade paperback."

Link (Thanks, Bruce Sterling!)

Glowing PC

Glowing PC 05/25/2004 04:35 PM

Glowing Popsicles

Glowing Popsicles 07/23/2004 02:53 PM

MATT GALLANT -- Now it's a little bit easier to film your own remake of that one John Ritter movie where he had a beard. Popsicles with hollow handles into which a run-of-the-mill Glo-Stick has been inserted are now available at 7-11.

Read - Glowing Popsicles [Mavromatic]

Glowing Crystals

Glowing Crystals 02/19/2004 07:24 PM

A few photos of the Kide sculpture.

I'm a regular visitor to Niklas Sjöblom's photoblog as he takes nice pictures from around Helsinki every day and a few weeks ago a picture of the Kide sculpture took me by surprise as I hadn't seen that since August 2000 out behind Kiasma during the day and unlit. I found another photo of them in front of the Tuomiokirkko, too. I thought it would be a great excuse to trudge out in the -15C weather to try out a new tripod and take a few photos. I arrived well after darkness had fallen so the colours were bright, but the sky didn't have any colour to it at all. I went back for a few more shots at sunset and will add those when I have them developed.

The sculpture was to have been put into storage so I was somewhat surprised to see it had found a new home out on a Ruoholahti breakwater. It has seen better days as someone has taken a marker to the cubes, some of the lights are dead and there is moisture in 2 of them. Still, they are an interesting sight in the darkness. The breakwater didn't have a fence around it so I didn't get too bold with various angles since I didn't want to slip on the ice and fall 6 meters onto more ice and into the cold, cold water. You can see Lauttasaari and it's alien spaceship/mushroom water reservoir from the sculpture as well as lots of footprints in the snow across the ice. I'm glad to see it found a new home.

Crysta ls connecting nine Cities of Culture and European Cities of Culture for the Year 2000 [PDF] have a lot more information and background about the sculpture. The quick summary:

The sound and light sculpture Kide (Crystal), made of glass, symbolised the connection between people and cultures. 'Crystal' is the symbol project of the Helsinki City of Culture programme and a salute to the eight other Cities of Culture for 2000. In September 1999, a Crystal was installed in each of the Cities of Culture, providing a visual connection between them through a monitor near the sculpture itself. The Crystals will be returned to Helsinki before the New Year and assembled into an 18-metre tunnel of light on Senate Square; people may pass through this tunnel into the new millennium. The Crystal resembles an ice cube; it is made of laminated and reinforced glass elements. The middle one of the three glass layers is shattered; the broken glass crystals create reflections that shift as the viewer moves. The light source in the Crystal reacts to the touch of a human hand, and the light grows depending on how many people touch it. In the dark, the Crystal is lit. The colour and sound world of each Crystal reflect the city in which it is placed. The Crystal was designed by architects Kari Leppänen and Peter Ch. Butter. The visual design is by Dusan Jovanovic and the sound design by Jyrki Sandell. The glass construction is a patented Finnish invention.

Glowing Colons with Barium

Glowing Colons with Barium 06/21/2004 12:20 PM

« A mannequin in Talinn sporting a t-shirt that reminded me of Perl people with the added bonus that it would make a splash with the apostrophic jihad. »

Last week was YAPC::NA and I am sorry I missed Gnat's Lightning Talk entitled What the Perl Community Needs is a Good Enema. I've heard Gnat give this sort of talk before as repetition is often an effective learning tool, but this time he's getting closer to the truth. Mark Twain, a fellow Missourian and cynic, once said, "Familiarity breeds contempt...and children."

Perl has a seriously dysfunctional family at some levels; there are sacred cows; there are needless politics; people suffer sociopaths for their 'code' and other mystifying reasons. And, like any family with problems who don't want to be confrontational, they tend to focus on the abstract and far more benign symptoms of dysfunction instead which usually does little to fix the problems, but does succeed in shifting the uncomfortable point of focus elsewhere. CPAN is often a very popular target of this phenomenon since it's easy to do, generally vague and it carries little risk that anyone might actually force you to put your money where your mouth is. The problem is people, that's certain, but if there were any leadership in the community the problems would, if not disappear, would at least be far less destructive.

Let's return to July 2000, when TPC4 was in Monterey, CA and I was invited on short notice to attend what was billed as a meeting to attempt to draft something of a "Constitution" for the Perl community. I was intrigued since, at the time, the community was as bitter, ugly, and pissy as a crowd of open source nerds ever were. There were about 11 people in this meeting. After an hour or so of discussion about what could be done to effect some positive social change in the community, Jon Orwant showed up, tried to break the hotel stonewear mugs built to outlast puny humans and somehow the idea of Perl6 became the shining new light that would save Perl from stagnation and doom. I felt a bit betrayed since I had originally pitched up for something I felt was far more important and noone wanted to answer my question "Why?".

I told Jarkko and a few others on the way out of that meeting that they could count on P6 never coming to fruition until the deep and vast social problems in the community were addressed. It wasn't a popular comment, but I remained and still remain firm in my conviction. The P6 project, in spite of itself, turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to P5P since it drew most of the problem people to the 'community rewrite' and left the folks who actually wrote code to get things done. However, I don't think that was really the point of the exercise and it has taken what was a fractured community and simply added another gaping fissure which seems to belch sulphurous gases at regular intervals.

Perl6 presaged what I have come to call "the age of the press release" in the timeline of perl. People not only are legends in their own minds and believe their own press releases, but many projects since have been more concerned with the press release than the actual project itself. It is a culture that has seriously lost sight of what brought us all together in the first place. A culture so incredibly pleased with itself that it forgets that volunteering for a job used to mean that you did the work first without talking it to death. The Perl Foundation is the only place I've EVER gotten bitched out for pressing the issue of sending thank-you notes to donors. ALWAYS thank your donors and volunteers, I don't care if you are some hopped up nerd king who claims Asperger ate your social cortex. I'll admit that I was a real PITA about it, but after 3 years and little improvement it wasn't entirely unwarranted. I think the person behind that particular clusterfuck is on both of our lists of what Nathan calls "Oldbies" and I call "sociopathic MFs". This is the part where I start waving my arms, cussing wildly and ranting about TPF but it, too, is just a victim of the symptoms of a far larger problem.

I was on the White Camel Awards committee Gnat mentions and, with a few other folks, subscribed to the list late but arrived just in time to see the tail end of a rant followed by 2 or 3 people sending "I quit!" messages. I wondered what in the hell was going on, got the lowdown from someone in a private email and thought how typical for perl people to make painful that which could be so easy and possibly even pleasant. I had been prepared to stump for and debate over candidates when I agreed to participate, but the enthusisam was gone after that. I have, for many years, argued that the recipients of the awards should be selected by the people in the community instead of an awards cabal since they are touted as awards for service in the community. The awards are important and they should reflect the opinion of more than 4 or so people in a small cabal of friends who bothered to vote. However, I'm not entirely certain that the community at large could be bothered to care or vote these days. HJ gets it even though he identifies the absence of the inner onion entourage as a symptom in spite of the fact that the YAPC::EU conferences rarely get the 'names' and are the conferences to be at for the active developers in the past few years. He has noted well the necrosis.

While I think Gnat needs to repeat his talk more often and in a more pointed fashion, it needs to focus on the one thing that many of us have pointed at for a long while; Perl needs some strong leadership. It needs leaders who are less concerned about playing politics and making nice to everyone while quietly bitching in the corner and leaders who are willing to defile the sacred cows and who won't be left twisting in the wind alone. Just inviting people to rewrite web pages and join committees sounds a lot like the Perl6 "community rewrite of Perl" call to glory which did little to solve any of the social problems which are the soul of the malaise. Nothing will change until those who enjoy all the benefits of being leaders without actually leading, lead.

When we are young we generally estimate an opinion by the size of the person that holds it, but later we find that is an uncertain rule, for we realize that there are times when a hornet's opinion disturbs us more than an emperor's. -- Mark Twain

Sparc still glowing, insists Sun

Sparc still glowing, insists Sun 12/04/2003 09:38 AM
vnunet.com Dec 4 2003 8:48AM ET

Glowing review of GarageBand

Glowing review of GarageBand 01/22/2004 02:24 AM
David Pogue reviews GarageBand, "Recording Studio in a Box": It won't be long before the GarageBand creations of no-name singers and players start popping up on Web sites - indeed, it won't be long before Web sites start popping up just to accommodate them - bypassing the talent scouts and gatekeepers of the American recording industry. GarageBand and the Internet give tomorrow's stars their own democratic recording and distribution channels. That prospect of new artists growing from grass roots is...

Glowing Soccer Balls and More

Glowing Soccer Balls and More 09/08/2004 07:22 AM

ITmedia reports from the floor of the 58th Annual Tokyo International Gift Show about stuff that glows. We do of course have an abundance of glow sticks, "Lumipads" and flashlights that automatically turn on when power to the charger is interrupted, but perhaps the most interesting item are glowing balls, like soccer balls and golf balls. Allegedly, the company decided to make a soccer ball with lights in it "for the children who work during the day and can only play with their friends at night." How do you go about turning the lights on, you ask? Remember those glow sticks you used at the beach? Same concept - two liquids inside will mix when the stick is bent and start to glow. Does that mean you have to toss the ball when you're done with it?

The company plans on releasing the ball stateside as well; I'm assuming it will be close to the ~$18 price of its Japanese release.

Read - Article [ITmedia]

Our glowing undersea friends.

Our glowing undersea friends. 05/13/2004 02:16 AM
Cut er than a fangtooth. Beautiful images of bioluminescent sea creatures. Learn the difference between fluorescence, phosphorescence, and bioluminescence, as well as the science behind the amazing chemical reaction. (I like the fl oppy-eared one the best--okay, the p lastic bag looking one is nifty too.)

InfoWorld: Microsoft Not Glowing Over
LAMP

InfoWorld: Microsoft Not Glowing Over
LAMP 06/06/2005 12:05 AM
"Microsoft officials are undaunted by the popular LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl/Python/PHP) application stack that serves as an open source rival to the Microsoft .Net platform..."

Green, Glowing Mouse Brains

Green, Glowing Mouse Brains 07/17/2004 06:08 PM
A recent CMU press release describes a breakthrough in the study of neurons in living animals. Alison Barth, a CMU neuroscientist, has developed a method to directly identify activated neurons in a living creature, genetically modified with a glowing green flourescent protein (GFP) and a gene called c-fos which turns on when a nerve cell is activated. Past methods such as MRI have allowed scientists to see only the general area of the brain in which activity was taking place but this new method shows precisely which neurons are active. The new method has been used to reverse-engineer the neural paths and activity in sensory data processing of mouse whiskers. This data could lead to better computer simulations of neural processes, among other things.

Fungi firm has glowing future

Fungi firm has glowing future 11/04/2003 07:07 PM
Scotsman Online Nov 4 2003 6:19PM ET

Building Your Own Glowing Cyber-Balls?

Building Your Own Glowing Cyber-Balls? 03/19/2003 10:44 PM
The constant clacking would drive you nuts (though, that would also be a good indication of the activity of your stocks...). Google knows all [google.com]. ...

Glowing 'cop' that detects poisons in a
jiffy

Glowing 'cop' that detects poisons in a
jiffy 07/08/2004 08:26 PM
Straits Times Jul 9 2004 0:40AM GMT

Hellraiser casemod with glowing embedded
Pinhead

Hellraiser casemod with glowing embedded
Pinhead 03/24/2005 04:51 PM
Cory Doctorow: This Hellraiser casemod (complete with red-glowing embedded Pinhead) is stupendously badass. Even the mouse has heads embedded in it. Link (Thanks, Arlen!)

eBay: IRAQ GLOWING MARBLES RADIOACTIVE
URANIUM

eBay: IRAQ GLOWING MARBLES RADIOACTIVE
URANIUM 05/24/2004 06:06 AM
In any future I want to live in, every boy's pockets will be brimming with radioactive depleted uranium marbles. These ones for sale on eBay (mysteriously marketed as 'iRaq glowing') may not be exactly the same as my dreams, but...

Exploding glowing lights in Leicester
Square [Flickr]

Exploding glowing lights in Leicester
Square [Flickr] 12/29/2004 06:05 PM

PC World Magazine and About.com Articles
Report Glowing Assessments of BugMe! for
PDA and Smartphone Users

PC World Magazine and About.com Articles
Report Glowing Assessments of BugMe! for
PDA and Smartphone Users 09/22/2004 02:13 AM
PC World Magazine and About.com have both recently published reviews of Electric Pocket's BugMe! note-taking and reminder-alarm software for PDAs and smartphones. [PRWEB Sep 22, 2004]

Poker Academy Texas Hold ’Em Poker
Software Receives Glowing Review by The
Mac Observer Columnist Bob “Dr. Mac”
LeVitus

Poker Academy Texas Hold ’Em Poker
Software Receives Glowing Review by The
Mac Observer Columnist Bob “Dr. Mac”
LeVitus 04/01/2005 04:51 AM
Poker Academy, a leading poker software developer http://www.poker-academy.com, today announced that in the March 11, 2005 issue of The Mac Observer, columnist Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus wrote a glowing review of Poker Academy software, stating, “In a nutshell, if you’re serious about learning to play Texas Hold ’Em, or to improve your game of Texas Hold ’Em, Poker Academy is the way to go.” [PRWEB Apr 1, 2005]

TikiMac Unveils "Big Tiki Drive", the
World's First Hi-Speed USB Flash Drive
in the Form of a Grinning, Glowing Tiki
Idol

TikiMac Unveils "Big Tiki Drive", the
World's First Hi-Speed USB Flash Drive
in the Form of a Grinning, Glowing Tiki
Idol 03/14/2005 06:10 PM
TikiMac today unveiled the Big Tiki Drive, the world's first hi-speed USB compatible storage device in the form of a big, grinning Tiki idol, complete with hypnotic glowing eyes and a blinking "aura", for Macintosh and Windows PC-compatible computers and starting at $59. [PRWEB Feb 23, 2005]

cue: "bring 'em on"

cue: "bring 'em on" 02/15/2004 10:44 AM
Though I don't like the message, I was amazed "Meet the Press" would insist on controlling the 45 second clip the Bush/Cheney campaign tried to distribute after last week's show. Some say the campaign insists it did "nothing wrong." I agree. So why did they cave so quickly?

Bring out the Gimp

Bring out the Gimp 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
One of the most celebrated open-source apps makes its free debut to OS X. Find out where you can download it, and how you can help a popular new Internet phone application come to Mac.

Get involved with this week's Freeloader Friday.

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign

Bring the ring

Bring the ring 07/12/2004 04:11 PM
USA Today Jul 12 2004 8:10PM GMT

Sun to bring Java ID to PCs

Sun to bring Java ID to PCs 02/16/2004 05:27 AM
Silicon.com Feb 16 2004 8:46AM GMT

What broadband will bring

What broadband will bring 01/03/2005 02:43 PM
globetechnology.com Jan 3 2005 6:14PM GMT

Bring me $7.4M says Microsoft

Bring me $7.4M says Microsoft 01/06/2005 09:49 PM
Spamfo Jan 7 2005 12:59AM GMT

Bring the duck...we can always eat him

Bring the duck...we can always eat him 01/16/2004 11:02 AM
Journey to the center of the Earth. No, r eally.

Who knows what 2005 will bring?

Who knows what 2005 will bring? 01/01/2005 05:20 AM

Here's my list of predictions:

1. We'll all give something up.

2. We'll all take something on.

3. If I make it to May 2, I'll turn 50. Praise Murphy!

4. Identity will remain a mess.

5. RSS will remain a success.

6. A major on-air radio talk show host from the left or right will realize that he or she can build a new market for his or her work by allowing people to download it in MP3 format linked into an RSS feed and listened to on an iPod.

7. A political leader, a candidate for some office, will emerge from the blogosphere. People will call this open source candidacy.

8. The term open source will come to mean nothing.

9. Cory Doctorow will sue Adam Curry for saying "Boing" when he's happy.

10. New tools for blogging will emerge allowing more complex structures of ideas to flow publicly through the Internet.

11. More people will call the Internet the Inkernet.

12. There will be a wifi signal at the top of the Empire State Building and in every truck stop in the US. Also in every Best Buy. McDonald's won't embrace the Internet.

Will You Bring Your Own PC To Work?

Will You Bring Your Own PC To Work? 05/07/2004 04:14 PM
People often have emotional attachments with their computers, even if that computer is supplied by their employers. Going one step beyond the concept of telecommuting and the so-called commodit ization of IT, some are wondering if a few years from now, people will be expected to bring their own computers to work, the same way they're expected to drive their own cars to work. And, if that's the case, what will it mean for the traditional role of the IT staffer who used to have to get you set up with your computer and help you troubleshoot when things weren't working properly? The article suggests it may mean fewer IT jobs, since they won't have to manager purchasing new machines and applications. However, it could mean a shift of those jobs towards the new problem: making all of those different PC configurations work together properly. Of course, that seems like an opportunity as well. If things really do progress in this manner, there will be a greater need for automation tools that can help configure a machine to work within a specific corporate network environment.

New MSN Updates Bring More Ads

New MSN Updates Bring More Ads 04/07/2005 09:42 AM
While today marks the day that both MSN Spaces and Messenger version 7 are released to the public, it also marks the start of a risky strategy by Redmond to better monetize the two services. Users will find ads in places they wouldn't have seen them before, including in their personal Spaces and at the beginning of video chats.

IBM to bring automation to DB2

IBM to bring automation to DB2 05/02/2004 11:50 PM
The "Stinger" release of DB2 Universal Database, due at the end of the year, will incorporate features from IBM's research on autonomic computing for simplifying administration

Bring all landlords into the tax net

Bring all landlords into the tax net 04/19/2004 09:47 PM
Irish Examiner Apr 20 2004 1:06AM GMT

If nothing else, always bring a
chaintool.

If nothing else, always bring a
chaintool. 08/20/2004 04:31 PM
"While Cannondale claims that their design is 'bullet proof' our evaluation of the Headshok [front fork] after 72 direct hits showed that it is merely 'bullet resistant'."
You, too, can survive the coming apocalypse with the advice of the Mountainbike Militiamen Movement.

Microsoft to help bring ICT to schools

Microsoft to help bring ICT to schools 06/29/2004 08:10 PM
thestar.com.my Jun 30 2004 0:42AM GMT

IBM to bring MS Office to... Linux?

IBM to bring MS Office to... Linux? 02/15/2004 11:54 AM
IBM has plans to bring Microsoft Office to the Linux desktop. current indicators are that this may possibly be done via work from Codeweavers, Wine, and efforts from IBM to utilize "code provided by Microsoft to make it happen."

Did GE bring offshoring to life?

Did GE bring offshoring to life? 03/25/2005 04:10 PM
Blog: Was Jack Welch, General Electric's famed former leader, a kind of founding father to offshore outsourcing? That's the argument...

Bring Nostalgia to Your PocketPC

Bring Nostalgia to Your PocketPC 06/09/2004 04:17 AM

Bring penmanship back!

Bring penmanship back! 07/15/2004 01:39 PM
By not teaching cursive anymore, schools are doing their students a disservice.

Podcast Bring DIY Radio To The Web

Podcast Bring DIY Radio To The Web 12/30/2004 08:55 AM

An Apple iPod or other digital music players can hold anything upto 10,000 songs, which is a lot of space to fill. But more and more iPod owners are filling that space with audio content created by an unpredictable assortment of producers. By Clark Boyd, BBC News

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Cash in on invention

Cash in on invention 07/28/2004 09:55 PM
Computer Weekly Jul 29 2004 1:11AM GMT

Father Of Invention

Father Of Invention 12/21/2003 11:53 PM
It's unlikely you've heard of him, this quiet man from Essex, but you probably own one of the gadgets that he's designed. He transformed the image of the computer and, if you're really lucky, you might get one of his latest must-haves this Christmas. By John Arlidge (The Observer via MyAppleMenu)

Invention Requires Dim Bulb

Invention Requires Dim Bulb 10/31/2003 12:50 PM
Seven years ago, DeepStar invented a time machine that could reveal the next day's lottery numbers. This was such a success he's spreading the news on several free Web hosts. (10-31)

Innovation Is More Important Than
Invention

Innovation Is More Important Than
Invention 04/29/2004 04:25 PM
We recently posted an MIT Tech Review story looking at the return of "inventors" instead of innovators. The article named the well known "great inventors" from a century ago. In the comments, someone properly took me to task for simply parroting the line about these inventors, when most of the stories about their "inventions" were mythical. Now, Michael Schrage (again at MIT's Tech Review) is arguing convincingly that for all the hype around inventors, in novation is much more important - and (more importantly) is entirely separate from invention. He names the same "inventors" named in the original article and points out that the truth of the matter is that they were all innovators rather than inventors (and its only the distance of history that has rewritten their stories as if they were inventors). He points out that invention has nothing to do with commercial success - whereas innovation has everything to do with it. Furthermore, this ties into the ongoing debate over patent reform: "If you want to learn about the importance of "invention" over the past 300 years, talk to the lawyers. If you want to hear about the importance of "innovation," however, talk to anyone else." So, the real question then, is whether or not our intellectual property system should be encouraging invention or innovation? I'd vote for innovation, as that's what drives the economy, and that would suggest we need fewer lawyers involved with the patent system, and perhaps more innovators. The following point is also important: "the technical excellence of an invention matters far less than the economic willingness of the customer or client to explore it." In other words, any system designed to encourage innovation needs to encourage actually making use of the innovation - and not, for example, sitting on a patent and doing nothing with it, while waiting for others to innovate and then hitting them with a patent infringement lawsuit.

iTMS: The Invention of the Year

iTMS: The Invention of the Year 11/11/2003 03:40 AM
Time has named Apple's iTunes Music Store The Invention of the Year. Apple, by using the simple concept of letting users pay a dollar to download a song has redefined music sales, demonstrated to record companies that the Internet can provide a practical business model and let users know there is an alternative to illegally downloading music. The article does mention a few remaining obstacles for Apple, the lack of Beatles material on iTMS and sales to international consumers the most obvious.

The Difference Between Innovation And
Invention

The Difference Between Innovation And
Invention 03/22/2005 07:03 PM
For all the talk about protecting innovation, we've often pointed out that the patent system seems to do the exact opposite -- making it more difficult for those who are actually innovating, while giving money to those who haven't done anything at all. Last year, Michael Schrage wrote an interesting piece pointing out the very important diffe rences between invention and innovation, where he noted that innovation is more important -- but the patent system is more about protecting invention. Basically, plenty of people or companies who "invented" an idea were never able to capitalize on the idea at all. It took others who actually innovated and built off that idea to make a product that actually had an impact on the world. Helping to prove that point are a bunch of example cases where the initial inventor of something wasn't the one to make it valuable. In a market driven economy, the real winner is the company that can make something valuable through innovation -- not the inventor who happens to come up with something that the market may or may not want.

Berners-Lee collects award for Web
invention

Berners-Lee collects award for Web
invention 06/15/2004 10:38 PM
ZDNet Australia Jun 16 2004 2:47AM GMT

The Observer | Comment | Father of
invention

The Observer | Comment | Father of
invention 12/26/2003 07:46 AM
Father Of Invention .. The Guardian .. Jonathan Ive

observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1111276,00.html
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Simpsons Plant Seeds of Invention

Simpsons Plant Seeds of Invention 11/07/2003 06:38 AM
After a Simpsons episode featured a tomato-tobacco hybrid, a wacky scientist decides to make 'tomacco' in real life. Remarkably, it worked. By Kristen Philipkoski.

If not for Clarence Birdseye's
invention, we might never have met Mrs.
Paul

If not for Clarence Birdseye's
invention, we might never have met Mrs.
Paul 07/14/2004 01:30 AM
USA Today Jul 14 2004 6:02AM GMT

iTMS: Coolest Invention of the Year

iTMS: Coolest Invention of the Year 11/10/2003 11:17 PM
Time Magazine has named the iTunes Music Store as one of the "Coolest Inventions of 2003." The third annual compilation lists inventions and gadgets designed to make life better. In his assessment, Time's Chris Taylor writes, Other inventions this year may have more altruistic intentions (like Dean Kamen's water purifier) or be more visible on street corners (like those ubiquitous camera cell phones). But for finally finding a middle ground between the foot-dragging record labels and the free-for-all digital pirates and for creating a bandwagon onto which its competitors immediately jumped, Apple's iTunes Music Store is Time's Coolest Invention of 2003.

Dutch Invention Uses Electric Engines
For Wheels

Dutch Invention Uses Electric Engines
For Wheels 12/27/2003 11:14 AM

Prior art claimed for concentration camp
invention

Prior art claimed for concentration camp
invention 12/19/2004 03:20 PM
Letters It could only happen in Letters

iTunes Music Store Is "Invention of the
Year"

iTunes Music Store Is "Invention of the
Year" 11/10/2003 10:52 PM

Dutch Invention Uses Electric Engines
For Wheels

Dutch Invention Uses Electric Engines
For Wheels 12/27/2003 12:35 PM
Slashdot Dec 27 2003 11:13AM ET

100 years after the invention of flight
and the world just became a bigger place

100 years after the invention of flight
and the world just became a bigger place 12/17/2003 01:15 PM
Anniversary of first flight - Dec. 17, 2003 Exactly 100 years ago today: flying made possible. This year, top speed...

New Invention Grand Final - The New
Inventors '04 Wednesday 24th 8pm ABC TV

New Invention Grand Final - The New
Inventors '04 Wednesday 24th 8pm ABC TV 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
Will FloorBot be the invention of the year? The robotic technology has many applications from farming, security, mining exploration, telecommunication, search and rescue. [PRWEB Nov 24, 2004]

Survey: Cell phone most hated, needed
invention

Survey: Cell phone most hated, needed
invention 01/22/2004 02:29 AM

NTT DoCoMo invention makes remote
control a snap

NTT DoCoMo invention makes remote
control a snap 07/23/2004 08:04 AM
Computer Weekly Jul 23 2004 12:35PM GMT

New Invention Grand final - The new
inventors 04 Wednesday 24th 8pm ABC TV

New Invention Grand final - The new
inventors 04 Wednesday 24th 8pm ABC TV 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
Will FloorBot be the invention of the year? The robotic technology has many applications from farming, security, mining exploration, telecommunication, search and rescue. [PRWEB Nov 24, 2004]

Sony Invention Beams Sights, Sounds Into
Brain

Sony Invention Beams Sights, Sounds Into
Brain 04/07/2005 12:26 PM
If you think video games are engrossing now, just wait: PlayStation maker Sony Corp. has been granted a patent for beaming sensory information directly into the brain.

Time's Invention of the Year: iTunes
Music Store

Time's Invention of the Year: iTunes
Music Store 11/10/2003 11:25 PM
Time's Coolest Invention of 2003 is the iTunes Music Store. Other inventions this year may have more altruistic intentions (like Dean Kamen's water...

Aust invention to clean up nuclear waste
site

Aust invention to clean up nuclear waste
site 04/16/2005 02:44 AM
OptusNet Apr 16 2005 6:09AM GMT

iTunes Music Store - 'Coolest Invention
of 2003'

iTunes Music Store - 'Coolest Invention
of 2003' 11/10/2003 11:19 PM
Slashdot Nov 10 2003 11:36AM ET

Time names iTunes Music Store 'Coolest
invention of 2003'

Time names iTunes Music Store 'Coolest
invention of 2003' 11/10/2003 10:59 PM
Time has named Apple's iTunes Music Store its "Coolest invention of the year."...

Engin Yesil Comments on Todays
Technological Invention to Space & Back

Engin Yesil Comments on Todays
Technological Invention to Space & Back 06/24/2004 04:43 PM
Engin Yesil Comments on Todays Technological Invention to Space & Back [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004]

AMD tarts up Athlon 64 line

AMD tarts up Athlon 64 line 01/06/2004 08:00 AM
Four new members

glittery words

glittery words 12/11/2003 07:26 PM
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