The shape of the Internet

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Arguments Before the Supreme Court to
Shape the Future of Internet Speech

Arguments Before the Supreme Court to
Shape the Future of Internet Speech 04/02/2005 04:12 PM
NYC Independent Media Center Apr 2 2005 7:54PM GMT

What shape will the next iMac take?

What shape will the next iMac take? 07/30/2004 10:30 AM
reader feedback Apple's mum on what its next-generation desktop will look like, but News.com readers offer their suggestions.

Taking shape

Taking shape 06/08/2004 07:29 AM
USA Today Jun 8 2004 11:53AM GMT

Shape Shifter 1.0

Shape Shifter 1.0 05/18/2004 09:03 PM
Drag shapes into matching shape cutouts. Clear the screen before time runs out.

Shape Up Your Data!

Shape Up Your Data! 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
Offerings make finding content for compliance easier.

The Ship Shape

The Ship Shape 10/29/2003 01:15 AM

Up on The New Yorker site, you can find Our Perfect Summer, a new story by David Sedaris.

We actually heard Sedaris read this story back in April when he made a stop at the San Francisco Opera House during his last book tour. Then, the story was called "The Ship Shape," (I think this is a better name) and immediately after hearing it, it rose to the very top of my Sedaris personal favorites lists. I, of course, have been anxiously awaited the print version since then.

It was especially great to hear him read this story live since it's so terribly bittersweet and he does an incredible job delivering it. It's moving without being over-the-top sentimentality (this is still Sedaris, after all) and the amount of humor in the piece is just right. No one plays the fool; instead it's a story about hope and disappointment amidst the sort experiences we all have as a kids.

It's a great piece and definitely worth the read.

We also met Sedaris at the signing he was doing before the event. He was sitting at a table, alone, sort of behind a pillar. Us being us, we made some horrible small talk and I embarrassed myself fully. As we were leaving, I put my hand out to offer a handshake and then quickly pulled it back, not knowing if he even likes to be touched. (Based on his books, who'd think he'd like strangers touching him?) After I asked if it was alright to shake, he laughed and probably thought I was a nutcase.

This is why you should never meet the people you admire.

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Easy Shape 0.1

Easy Shape 0.1 05/30/2004 09:12 AM
A Web-based bandwidth manager and traffic grapher.

The shape of the two-man race

The shape of the two-man race 02/18/2004 04:08 PM

The Shape of Song

The Shape of Song 07/15/2004 08:29 AM
The Shape of Song from Turbulence.

3G to take shape in 2005, says GSA

3G to take shape in 2005, says GSA 01/02/2005 11:12 AM
INQ7.net Jan 2 2005 3:35PM GMT

The Shape of Pharrots to Come

The Shape of Pharrots to Come 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
John Coggeshall mentions that the PHP on Parrot project has been named "Pharrot" by the php-con conference attendees. Here's my take on things. Now I don't have any inside info, so the following is entirely guesswork, and any resemblence to reality is entirely your imagination: Although Sterling and Thies are very modest, given the fact that they were given the closing keynote and the amazing performance improvements - Pharrot will probably be PHP 6. The speed of the JIT means that PHP will become a general programming language. A high performance application server written 100% in PHP becomes practical. A high performance anything becomes practical in PHP. The tribes using Parrot will probably include Python, PHP and Perl. Code sharing between different programming tribes will become a reality. This does not mean that there will be full interoperatability between all languages, because (a) there is no common runtime library (yet), (b) and no consensus on what will be the default PMC's (Parrot's language extensions) installed. There will be battles fought over the run-time. In PHP4/5, after execution, we throw away the opcodes together with the bath water, or store them in shared memory. Parrot gives you more choices. See the end of Dan Sugalski's Parrot internals presentation (ppt). The Zend API is dead - big deal. Parrot is a big opportunity for companies with skill and resolve. The tools market for open source programming languages suddenly becomes much larger because you are able to support so many more languages effectively. My prediction: the first beta of Pharrot will be out in 2006. PS: Selkirk was prescient about parrot. Smart chap.

The Shape of Information

The Shape of Information 07/23/2002 05:54 AM

Google Gets in Shape

Google Gets in Shape 07/02/2004 09:52 AM
Search Engine Lowdown Jul 2 2004 2:28PM GMT

Hobbit bones in bad shape

Hobbit bones in bad shape 03/23/2005 01:19 PM
David Pescovitz: Sadly, the bones of BB mascot Homo floresiensis were apparently terribly damaged by Indonesian scientist Teuku Jacob who "borrowed" the bones for quite some time and was extremely reluctant to return them. Jacob was not convinced that Homo floresiensis is a new species of "little people" at all, but rather a deformed pygmy. The scientists who discovered the bones claim that the remains were trashed when Jacob's team tried to make rubber molds of the delicate bones. From USA Today:

"The equivalent in the world of art would be somebody slashing the Mona Lisa and then trying to fix it with chewing gum," says paleontologist Tim White of the University of California-Berkeley, who was not on the discovery team.... (Pesco's profile of White here.)

"If some breakage took place on any bone, it must be during the transport in Yogyakarta or from Yogyakarta to Jakarta," Jacob says. "Both mandibles were intact until the last minute in our lab, as proven by photographs taken on the last days." He did not respond to a request for the photos...

Discovery team member (Richard) Roberts scoffs at the notion that travel caused all the damage: "Like the addition of a glued-on chin?"

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Google, Distorting the Shape of the Web

Google, Distorting the Shape of the Web 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
"I had a reciprocal link exchange that I requested of a complementary site turned down because my Google page rank was not high enough according to an e-mail reply from the other site. "

Web of Ideas: The Shape of Knowledge

Web of Ideas: The Shape of Knowledge 02/01/2005 09:09 PM
On Wednesday I'm going to lead the postponed session in the semi-regular series at the Berkman Center. This time, I'm going to try out a presentation I'm giving in a couple of weeks at a conference. The topic has something to do with taxonomies and tagging. (Yes, it will repeat some material in the dinner talk I gave last week, and a bunch of stuff from the Library of Congress speech. But it will have new stuff on tagging.) It's 6-7:30pm at the Baker House (map). It's open to the public and pizza will be served....

The Shape of Blogging's Future

The Shape of Blogging's Future 11/10/2003 11:15 PM
Dave writes: Weblog software is going to be like mail servers. Lots of ways to deploy, every niche filled. For the masses, services like Yahoo, MSN and AOL. Blogging servers for corporations, inside and outside of the firewall. For schools, for the military, specialized systems for lawyers, librarians, professors, reporters, magazines, daily newspapers. The next President will have a blog. Writing for the Web, the prevailing form of publishing in the early 21st Century, will come in many sizes and shapes, flavors and styles. It won't be one-size-fits-all. Open formats and protocols will make this possible. I'd bet on the...

Plastic That Changes Shape In Light

Plastic That Changes Shape In Light 04/15/2005 06:16 PM

Security 2004: How it will shape up

Security 2004: How it will shape up 01/07/2004 01:54 PM
Security watcher Jon Oltsik says customers will face myriad new challenges in the next 12 months.

Soon, robots will be able to change
their shape!

Soon, robots will be able to change
their shape! 09/19/2004 11:18 AM
123Bharath.com Sep 19 2004 2:41PM GMT

US economy still in fragile shape

US economy still in fragile shape 04/30/2004 02:49 PM
Factory output is bouncing, but consumer sentiment remains gloomy, as investors speculate on next week's interest-rate decision.

Animating with Shape Tweens

Animating with Shape Tweens 03/14/2005 06:17 PM
Morph the shape or color of one graphic into another with this fun-to-use Flash feature.

New Robot Shifts Shape

New Robot Shifts Shape 04/13/2005 01:43 AM
Space.com Apr 13 2005 5:53AM GMT

The Shape of Things to Come: 5 Cents

The Shape of Things to Come: 5 Cents 03/22/2005 04:43 PM

This last Saturday, I was on a panel at the SXSW Music Festival entitled The Shape of Things to Come. On the panel were some industry legends including Sandy Pearlman and Peter Jenner (former manager of Pink Floyd).

The panel somehow converged around the idea of a 5 cent download, and how it would be a better model both economically, and socially. I wonder if anyone has drawn the demand curves to see where there's more money. If marginal cost is close to zero, then you could have 1 million people buying songs for 1 dollar, versus 25 million people buying songs for 5 cents - maybe the lower price wins?

It did get me thinking that maybe we (or someone) should build a Creative Commons 5 cent download site. It could be a good test case, and it would also help artists get compensated. Of course, since all the works would be CC licensed, tracks could probably be legally traded noncommercially. However, if there was one central place with a good recommendation engine and user interface (not to mention good musicians), I bet people would go for it. Any takers?

Plastic that changes shape with light

Plastic that changes shape with light 04/14/2005 03:48 PM
David Pescovitz: Shape memory alloy, materials that change shape based on a temperature increase, are old news for roboticists. But MIT scientists have developed a new plastic that shapeshifts in response to light. From the MIT News Office:

These programmed materials change shape when struck by light at certain wavelengths and return to their original shapes when exposed to light of specific different wavelengths.

The discovery, to be reported in the April 14 issue of Nature, could have potential applications in a variety of fields, including minimally invasive surgery. Imagine, for example, a "string" of plastic that a doctor could thread into the body through a tiny incision. When activated by light via a fiber-optic probe, that slender string might change into a corkscrew-shaped stent for keeping blood vessels open.

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Next Xbox Starts to Take Shape

Next Xbox Starts to Take Shape 03/14/2005 06:17 PM
Microsoft gives scant details on its next-gen console, but alpha development kits hint at more.

Intel's results chip-shape

Intel's results chip-shape 01/18/2004 04:52 AM
Australian IT Jan 18 2004 9:21AM GMT

Fujitsu gets smaller drives into shape

Fujitsu gets smaller drives into shape 12/15/2003 03:19 PM
The company's upcoming 2.5-inch hard drives, designed for storage systems and servers, are being put to the test by Hewlett-Packard.

Newsweek: Why Intel's in such great
shape

Newsweek: Why Intel's in such great
shape 05/09/2004 03:34 PM
MSNBC May 9 2004 7:23PM GMT

The digital home takes shape

The digital home takes shape 08/13/2004 01:27 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Thu Aug 12, 04:03 pm GMT

Google Back in Game Shape?

Google Back in Game Shape? 06/30/2004 02:31 PM
"Even though I really dislike the fact that Google seems to have taken a different approach with seo's and webmasters lately, I must say the results are finally starting to come around and be pretty relevant."

Econet's 3G slowly taking shape

Econet's 3G slowly taking shape 09/05/2004 04:37 PM
Zim Observer Sep 5 2004 8:32PM GMT

User-friendly BI takes shape

User-friendly BI takes shape 06/21/2004 07:35 AM
Actuate and MicroStrategy continue to battle over an enterprise market increasingly demanding more user-friendly business intelligence from a single BI platform.

First US cyberstalking case taking shape

First US cyberstalking case taking shape 04/24/2004 05:10 PM
Robert James Murphy is the first person in the United States to be charged with what many are calling "cyberstalking." Technically, Murphy has been charged with violating Title 47 of the US Code, section 223.

Congress aims to shape coalition

Congress aims to shape coalition 05/16/2004 04:57 AM
India's Congress Party meets political allies to try to form a government following its shock election victory.

Sony's TV Plans Take Shape (PC World)

Sony's TV Plans Take Shape (PC World) 08/20/2004 10:48 AM
PC World - New 46-inch LCD is just one of eight flat-panel models launched this week.

Plug-in gives shape to Google search

Plug-in gives shape to Google search 12/17/2003 09:36 PM
Groxis, a technology start-up that uses graphics to display Web search results, sees a gap in Google's widely used search engine and wants to capitalize on it.

Yahoo's SoCal plans take shape

Yahoo's SoCal plans take shape 03/19/2005 02:55 AM
Journalist positions among job postings for newly created Santa Monica outpost hint at company's direction, contrast with Google.

Shape-shifting rolling robots

Shape-shifting rolling robots 07/05/2004 12:32 PM
Japanese researchers in Ritsumeikan University have built small, rolling " soft robots" that pull themselves along by shifting their shape. The wheels are fabricated from a flexible plastic with spokes made from shape memory alloy, a common robotics material that shortens when heated from current flowing through it. From a New Scientist article:

"The rolling robots perform well on flat surfaces and can even scale 20-degree slopes. By flattening itself as much as possible and then pinging back to a circular shape - driven by the elasticity of the outer rim - a robot can leap 8 centimetres into the air. The engineers say that by combining three wheels in a mutually perpendicular arrangement, it should be possible to build a ball-shaped, steerable robot."

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