Beauty is only skin deep

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Apple's New iMac: Skin-Deep Beauty

Apple's New iMac: Skin-Deep Beauty 09/01/2004 04:13 AM
The updated desktop is easy on the eyes, but if you want sweeping innovation, or even adequate memory, it falls short. By Alex Salkever, BusinessWeek (via MyAppleMenu)

Beauty is Only Screen Deep

Beauty is Only Screen Deep 10/17/2002 08:03 AM

Beauty is Navel Deep

Beauty is Navel Deep 01/06/2004 01:16 PM
The world's hottest female celebrities are suffering from heartburn, breathing problems, constipation, digestive disorders, and other maladies, according to Sri Kalima's analysis of their exposed belly buttons. (01-06)

Skin Deep

Skin Deep 09/07/2004 10:24 AM
Skin Deep: A safety assessment of ingredients in personal care products. The Environmental Working Group has published a new report listing possible toxins in over 7,500 personal care products, including soap, toothpaste, shaving gel, and hair dye. The Executive Summary of the report is here, and the most handy tool for consumers is their Searcha ble Product Guide.

Prototype: Skin Deep

Prototype: Skin Deep 05/14/2004 03:11 PM
Technology Review May 14 2004 6:52PM GMT

Design is Only Skin Deep

Design is Only Skin Deep 12/01/2002 08:56 AM
Real world Webmasters continue to assert that the majority of what is taught in web design and web graphics classes is wrong. It is the low key, no graphic, easy to read, white space strong, low impact pages that are producing long term results in the real world.

Apple Needs More Than Skin-Deep Security

Apple Needs More Than Skin-Deep Security 11/05/2003 10:54 AM
Mac OS X users should ask Apple to do no more than what other sellers of operating systems are doing: Keep the customer in the loop, not in the dark. (CNET News.com via MyAppleMenu)

Human chips more than skin-deep

Human chips more than skin-deep 08/23/2004 06:22 AM
Better health care and fraud protection may sound good, but are they worth the potential privacy trade-offs?

Apple needs more than skin-deep security

Apple needs more than skin-deep security 11/04/2003 06:02 PM

CNET: Apple Needs More Than Skin-Deep
Security

CNET: Apple Needs More Than Skin-Deep
Security 11/05/2003 03:40 PM

Birthmarks, paper cuts: Not just skin
deep

Birthmarks, paper cuts: Not just skin
deep 06/11/2004 07:22 PM
Straits Times Jun 11 2004 11:23PM GMT

BusinessWeek: 'Apple's New iMac:
Skin-Deep Beauty'

BusinessWeek: 'Apple's New iMac:
Skin-Deep Beauty' 09/01/2004 06:06 AM
In his latest "Byte of the Apple" column on BusinessWeek, Alex Salkever writes about Apple's new iMac G5, which was announced yesterday at Apple Expo Paris...

What India's Upset Vote Reveals: The
High Tech Is Skin Deep

What India's Upset Vote Reveals: The
High Tech Is Skin Deep 05/14/2004 11:54 PM
India's governing party waged the country's first modern electoral campaign, but it was ousted in what has been called "a huge popular rebellion."

Beauty

Beauty 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
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The Beauty of ROE

The Beauty of ROE 05/12/2004 07:06 AM
It's a simple measure of management effectiveness... and one of Tom Gardner's tools for digging up Hidden Gems.

The Beauty of REST

The Beauty of REST 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
Through his LibraryLookup project, Jon Udell finds that you don't need to understand what REST is in order to benefit from its use in a system.

Bookbinding beauty

Bookbinding beauty 03/14/2005 05:29 PM
David Pescovitz: Princeton University Library's special collection of antique handcrafted bookbindings is utterly amazing. It's a shame that more books today aren't published with such artistry. I'd definitely buy "special editions" of my favorite books. Pictured, a 15th century edition of De civitate Dei, Venetian binding, blind-tooled goatskin. Lin k (via MetaFilter)

American beauty

American beauty 06/10/2004 07:46 AM
Are all marriages destined for the doldrums?

Beauty comes in threes

Beauty comes in threes 06/01/2004 09:47 PM
Computer Times Jun 2 2004 2:28AM GMT

Beauty in print

Beauty in print 08/03/2004 04:35 PM
Browsing at my local library, I just came across a display of the winners of this year's Canadian Awards for Excellence in Book Design. I was blown away by the design and content of The Gryphons of Paris, a limited edition collection of black-and-white photos of surpassing beauty. This led me to the web page of the photographer, Ronald Hurwitz, his city vignettes and remarkable portraits. A good reminder that not everything of value can be found on the internet.

Brains and beauty, etc.

Brains and beauty, etc. 04/16/2004 06:27 PM
A brain study released today shows that the human ability to appreciate aesthetics is based in the prefontal cortex, part of the brain involved in decision making. The scientists at the Balearic Islands University in Spain came to this conclusion by imaging their subjects' brains while looking at art and photography. According to the study, quoted in Scientific American, "'a phylogenetic change in the prefontal cortex could give way to the decorative and artistic profusion' in humans."
Another study published today by Northwestern University suggests that "Eureka!" moments of insight activate "a distinct area in the right hemisphere of the brain's temporal cortex," a region where semantic connections occur.

"For thousands of years people have said that insight feels different from more straightforward problem solving," one of the researchers said. "We believe this is the first research showing that distinct computational and neural mechanisms lead to these breakthrough moments."

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Beauty and the Breast

Beauty and the Breast 05/13/2004 10:57 AM

Manuel Schmettau says:

"An artwork (video) by my friend Amy Jenkins, featuring her daughter breastfeeding and falling asleep, has been called "distasteful" and removed from an exhibition at Salvatore Ferragamo's 5th Avenue store. (Ferragamo originally invited Amy to create the piece for their store's art gallery on the second floor.)

When asked to "create an artwork using inspiration from objects in their store," Amy was promised complete artistic freedom. Hesitant at first, she explored the store and fell in love with a little pair of red shoes, which turned out to be called the "Audrey" shoes (they were originally designed for Audrey Hepburn.) As her daughter is also named Audrey, she felt it was fate to accept the invitation. It was not a commercial commission, and she financed the production of the video herself.

Amy would love to show this piece elsewhere, unfortunately it was made specially for their 42" widescreen monitor (a costly item that she doesn't own!) Her hope is that "The Audrey Samsara" will soon be shown at a more open-minded venue."

The New York Daily News ran an item about the controversy. Lin k

In Science, Beauty

In Science, Beauty 04/14/2005 02:33 AM

This is delightful: the UBC Botanical Garden’s Botany Photo of the Day, to which I’ve subscribed. My favorites are the first entry and, from this week, the Akebia (we have one at home).

Industrial beauty

Industrial beauty 01/17/2004 10:57 PM
These photoos of human-made toxic disasters -- mining tailings, tire-piles, oil refineries, etc -- capture the beauty of industrial horror. Link (via JWZ's Livejournal)

Beauty & the Geek

Beauty & the Geek 07/22/2004 07:38 AM
wins Miss Massachusetts .. Beauty & the Geek .. MIT Alumi Profile

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder 12/24/2004 12:21 PM
JewelEye. A jewel that is placed inside your eye. Ooch. [Webpage is slow because it contains two huge pictures.]

Beauty in Computing

Beauty in Computing 03/11/2003 09:43 AM

Beauty in Computing

A little random but I'm thinking over stuff as I ponder next features (and I also needed a post to verify my rss expiration function).  I'm always amazed by the prettiness that Linux is capable of when the right theme is developed.  A.Sleep's stuff is a good example.  [_Go_]< /A>

What made me think of this is Brent's rant on Windows XP and the playskool interface.  I wonder if he'd like A.Sleep's stuff better.  [_Go_]

pure bug beauty

pure bug beauty 03/25/2005 03:48 PM
Overheard in New York is one of my absolute favorite sites on The Internets, especially when they share things like...

He Drank in Their Beauty

He Drank in Their Beauty 04/10/2005 02:06 PM
Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson had another vice: thirteenth stepping new female members: "First you teach them the Twelve Steps, and then you take them to the bedroom and teach them the Thirteenth Step."

New iMac's Beauty In The Eye Of The
Beholder

New iMac's Beauty In The Eye Of The
Beholder 09/20/2004 01:07 PM
By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News (via MyAppleMenu)

The Curse of Beauty for Serious
Musicians

The Curse of Beauty for Serious
Musicians 05/27/2004 03:26 PM
Classical music still seems to have trouble dealing with strong women. If you're attractive, it seems, you must also be cheesy and commercial.

A thing of beauty is (now) a joy forever

A thing of beauty is (now) a joy forever 04/19/2005 04:22 AM
You may have to watch a brief ad to read the story. “My new heroes are the Brigham Young researchers whose scanners have unveiled ancient fragments of Sophocles, Euripides and the earliest Gospels.” “When I was a high school student studying Latin, my teacher, an owlish woman named Mrs. Hodges, would often ask us to translate on the fly as we were plodding our way through Virgil’s “Aeneid” or Caesar’s “Gallic Commentaries.” Normally, we…

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Beauty Counts - Even For Lobsters

Beauty Counts - Even For Lobsters 05/27/2004 08:00 AM
CBS News May 27 2004 12:29PM GMT

css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design

css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design 08/17/2004 03:40 PM
tool for navigating between CSS Zen entries .. css Zen Garden Easy Navigation

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Depression and The Beauty that Remains

Depression and The Beauty that Remains 01/23/2004 06:33 PM
Over the last several days, there has been an extraordinary bloom of sweet commentary pursuant to my last three posts regarding the departure of Spalding Gray. Your eloquence, humor, and, above all, your honesty are proof to me that he is alive and, indeed, becoming more so in your hearts. You are his witnesses. What you've said here is all the evidence one needs that Spalding planted something beautiful, if a little goofy, in this world that will continue to blossom even without his being here to tend it. I am particularly grateful to the many who've openly discussed their own battles with depression, the most insidious enemy there can be. Fighting clinical depression is an inevitably lonely struggle. What could be less conducive to compassion than a disease that make you whine? Laymen and loved ones tell you to get a grip. They make you feel ashamed to be sick. Even if they're more enlightened about the disease, they can't help but harbor a secret, naturally human, belief that you are suffering a failure of will rather than biochemistry. Meanwhile, the doctors consider little but the neuro-soup and turn you into a shambling medical experiment, testing pharmaceutical nostrums on you that are as blunt as the mind is subtle, though just as unpredictable. Meanwhile, your cold world trudges on. It remains, despite all visible signs of well-being - wonderful spouse, great kids, well-located house, whatever - a purgatory of uselessness, barren of joy and meaning. Love, incoming or out-going, becomes something you think, not feel. I am very grateful that this has provided a forum where some of you feel free to speak of this affliction, which is too often suffered in a terrible silence. I am also very grateful for the personal tales you've told about your encounters with him, real and virtual, and how he affected your lives. Your comments are ample evidence that he was a good teacher. I fear that his children, and in particular his marvelous young sons, Forrest and Theo, will remember little of who he really was and what he really did. Worse, I suspect that much of what will remain as the memory of their father will be shadowed by who he became after depression closed its ghostly fist around his light. To the goal that they might re-remember him for them through our tales, I want to make a little book of your comments following the last three posts and give it to them. If any of you object to being included, and I hope none of you will, please let me know. They are better than the flowers one might send otherwise....

I Am Synced. The Beauty Of iSync

I Am Synced. The Beauty Of iSync 04/22/2004 12:01 PM
By Apple-X.net (via MyAppleMenu)

Althouse: Rituals of the beauty culture.

Althouse: Rituals of the beauty culture. 01/05/2005 10:43 PM
Ann Althouse finds this curious: .. A fantastic post by Ann Althouse

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Beauty pageant planned for over 55s
(Reuters)

Beauty pageant planned for over 55s
(Reuters) 07/26/2004 03:42 AM
Reuters - China is taking the Confucian value of respect for the elderly to a new level -- with a beauty pageant for "gray heads".

Version 5.1: A DragThing of Beauty
(12-Apr-2004; 1.5K)

Version 5.1: A DragThing of Beauty
(12-Apr-2004; 1.5K) 04/12/2004 08:39 PM

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The Age of the Essay

The Age of the Essay 09/03/2004 06:21 PM
Paul Graham on the writing of essays .. wonderful essay

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Essay

Essay 01/16/2004 01:04 PM
El Nino, and other dramatic essays .. El Niño is Spanish .. essays .. Essay

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"essay"

"essay" 03/16/2003 08:25 AM

New essay: topology

New essay: topology 03/11/2003 03:10 PM

Based on the recent discussions on verbs, it seems appropriate to make a more clear distinction between verbs as message exchange patterns (necessary, but as a rule, the fewer the better), versus verbs as imperatives (generally to be avoided).

As this distinction is subtle, I decided to sneak up on the topic.

Without further ado: I give you Topolo gy.

Essay about trends

Essay about trends 04/24/2004 04:42 AM

Here are some thoughts on where I think things are going in the mobile and content space.

I wrote this essay before reading Free Culture so I'm saying a lot of stuff that Larry says better...

Several crucial shifts in technology are emerging that will drastically affect the relationship between users and technology in the near future. Wireless Internet is becoming ubiquitous and economically viable. Internet capable devices are becoming smaller and more powerful.

Alongside technological shifts, new social trends are emerging. Users are shifting their attention from packaged content to social information about location, presence and community. Tools for identity, trust, relationship management and navigating social networks are becoming more popular. Mobile communication tools are shifting away from a 1-1 model, allowing for increased many-to-many interactions; such a shift is even being used to permit new forms of democracy and citizen participation in global dialog.

While new technological and social trends are occurring, it is not without resistance, often by the developers and distributors of technology and content. In order to empower the consumer as a community member and producer, communication carriers, hardware manufacturers and content providers must understand and build models that focus less on the content and more on the relationships.

Smaller faster

Computing started out as large mainframe computers, software developers and companies “time sharing” for slices of computing time on the large machines. The mini-computer was cheaper and smaller, allowing companies and labs to own their own computers. The mini computer allowed a much greater number of people to have access to computers and even use them in real time. The mini computer lead to a burst in software and networking technologies. In the early 80’s, the personal computer increased the number of computers by an order of magnitude and again, led to an explosion in new software and technology while lowering the cost even more. Console gaming companies proved once again that unit costs could be decreased significantly by dramatically increasing the number of units sold. Today, we have over a billion cell phones in the market. There are tens of millions camera phones. The incredible number of these devices has continued to lower the unit cost of computing as well as devices imbedded in these devices such as small cameras. High end phones have the computing power of the personal computers of the 80’s and the game consoles of the 90’s.

History repeats with WiFi

There are parallels in the history of communications and computing. In the 1980’s the technology of packet switched networks became widely deployed. Two standards competed. X.25 was a packet switched network technology being promoted by CCITT (a large, formal international standards body) and the telephone companies. It involved a system run by telephone companies including metered tariffs and multiple bilateral agreements between carriers to hook up.

Concurrently, universities and research labs were promoting TCP/IP and the Internet opportunity for loosely organized standards meetings being operated with flat rate tariffs and little or no agreements between the carriers. People just connected to the closest node and everyone agreed to freely carry traffic for others.

There were several “free Internet” services such as “The Little Garden” in San Francisco. Commercial service providers, particularly the telephone company operators such as SprintNet tried to shut down such free services by threatening not to carry this free traffic.

Eventually, large ISPs began providing high quality Internet connectivity and finally the telephone companies realized that the Internet was the dominant standard and shutdown or acquired the ISPs.

A similar trend is happening in wireless data services. GPRS is currently the dominant technology among mobile telephone carriers. GPRS allows users to transmit packets of data across the carrier network to the Internet. One can roam to other networks as long as the mobile operators have agreements with each other. Just like in the days of X.25, the system requires many bilateral agreements between the carriers; their goal is to track and bill for each packet of information.

Competing with this standard is WiFi. WiFi is just a simple wireless extension to the current Internet and many hotspots provide people with free access to the Internet in cafes and other public areas. WiFi service providers have emerged, while telephone operators –such as a T-Mobile and Vodaphone- are capitalizing on paid WiFi services. Just as with the Internet, network operators are threatening to shut down free WiFi providers, citing a violation of terms of service.

Just as with X.25, the GPRS data network and the future data networks planned by the telephone carriers (e.g. 3G) are crippled with unwieldy standards bodies, bilateral agreements, and inherently complicated and expensive plant operations.

It is clear that the simplicity of WiFi and the Internet is more efficient than the networks planned by the telephone companies. That said, the availability of low cost phones is controlled by mobile telephone carriers, their distribution networks and their subsidies.

Content vs Context

Many of the mobile telephone carriers are hoping that users will purchase branded content manufactured in Hollywood and packaged and distributed by the telephone companies using sophisticated technology to thwart copying.

Broadband in the home will always be cheaper than mobile broadband. Therefore it will be cheaper for people to download content at home and use storage devices to carry it with them rather than downloading or viewing content over a mobile phone network. Most entertainment content is not so time sensitive that it requires real time network access.

The mobile carriers are making the same mistake that many of the network service providers made in the 80s. Consider Delphi, a joint venture between IBM and Sears Roebuck. Delphi assumed that branded content was going to be the main use of their system and designed the architecture of the network to provide users with such content. Conversely, the users ended up using primary email and communications and the system failed to provide such services effectively due to the mis-design.

Similarly, it is clear that mobile computing is about communication. Not only are mobile phones being used for 1-1 communications, as expected through voice conversations; people are learning new forms of communication because of SMS, email and presence technologies. Often, the value of these communication processes is the transmission of “state” or “context” information; the content of the messages are less important.

Copyright and the Creative Commons

In addition to the constant flow of traffic keeping groups of people in touch with each other, significant changes are emerging in multimedia creation and sharing. The low cost of cameras and the nearly television studio quality capability of personal computers has caused an explosion in the number and quality of content being created by amateurs. Not only is this content easier to develop, people are using the power of weblogs and phones to distribute their creations to others.

The network providers and many of the hardware providers are trying to build systems that make it difficult for users to share and manipulate multimedia content. Such regulation drastically stifles the users’ ability to produce, share and communicate. This is particularly surprising given that such activities are considered the primary “killer application” for networks.

It may seem unintuitive to argue that packaged commercial content can co-exist alongside consumer content while concurrently stimulating content creation and sharing. In order to understand how this can work, it is crucial to understand how the current system of copyright is broken and can be fixed.

First of all, copyright in the multimedia digital age is inherently broken. Historically, copyright works because it is difficult to copy or edit works and because only few people produce new works over a very long period of time. Today, technology allows us to find, sample, edit and share very quickly. The problem is that the current notion of copyright is not capable of addressing the complexity and the speed of what technology enables artists to create. Large copyright holders, notably Hollywood studios, have aggressively extended and strengthened their copyright protections to try to keep the ability to produce and distribute creative works in the realm of large corporations.

Hollywood asserts, “all rights reserved” on works that they own. Sampling music, having a TV show running in the background in a movie scene or quoting lyrics to a song in a book about the history of music all require payment to and a negotiation with the copyright holder. Even though the Internet makes available a wide palette of wonderful works based on content from all over the world, the current copyright practices forbid most of such creation.

However, most artists are happy to have their music sampled if they receive attribution. Most writers are happy to be quoted or have their books copied for non-commercial use. Most creators of content realize that all content builds on the past and the ability for people to build on what one has created is a natural and extremely important part of the creative process.

Creative Commons tries to give artists that choice. By providing a more flexible copyright than the standards “all rights reserved” copyright of commercial content providers, Creative Commons allows artists to set a variety of rights to their works. This includes the ability to reuse for commercial use, copy, sample, require attribution, etc. Such an approach allows artists to decide how their work can be used, while providing people with the materials necessary for increased creation and sharing.

Creative Commons also provides for a way to make the copyright of pieces of content machine-readable. This means that a search engine or other tool to manipulate content is able to read the copyright. As such, an artist can search for songs, images and text to use while having the information to provide the necessary attribution.

Creative Commons can co-exist with the stringent copyright regimes of the Hollywood studios while allowing professional and amateur artists to take more control of how much they want their works to be shared and integrated into the commons. Until copyright law itself is fundamentally changed, the Creative Commons will provide an essential tool to provide an alternative to the completely inflexible copyright of commercial content.

Content is not like some lump of gold to be horded and owned which diminishes in value each time it is shared. Content is a foundation upon which community and relationships are formed. Content is the foundation for culture. We must evolve beyond the current copyright regime that was developed in a world where the creation and transmission of content was unwieldy and expense, reserved to those privileged artists who were funded by commercial enterprises. This will provide the emerging wireless networks and mobile devices with the freedom necessary for them to become the community building tools of sharing that is their destiny.

Essay: How to End Grade Inflation

Essay: How to End Grade Inflation 05/03/2004 06:54 AM
suggests .. diving

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COMDEX Photo Essay II

COMDEX Photo Essay II 12/02/2003 01:35 AM
PC Magazine Dec 1 2003 5:29PM ET

"an excellent, though depressing essay"

"an excellent, though depressing essay" 05/14/2004 03:36 AM

Two Part Essay on Software Piracy

Two Part Essay on Software Piracy 01/06/2004 04:25 AM
I have been a firm believer in purchasing software that I like. I really like the shareware concept and support...

"TIME: Right From the Start Photo Essay
(8)"

"TIME: Right From the Start Photo Essay
(8)" 04/18/2005 04:45 AM

Reagan's Daughter Writes Essay About Dad

Reagan's Daughter Writes Essay About Dad 12/04/2003 11:55 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 4 2003 10:39PM ET

Michele has a great essay of
acknowledgement and thanks up as well

Michele has a great essay of
acknowledgement and thanks up as well 11/12/2003 01:16 PM
Honor to those who served .. A Small Victory .. a good post .. list

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om's essay on crediting bl0ggers

om's essay on crediting bl0ggers 08/16/2004 10:39 AM
looks like it's started a good conversation, but ignore the trolling comments

Computers Weighing In On the Elements of
Essay

Computers Weighing In On the Elements of
Essay 07/31/2004 10:35 PM
Washington Post Aug 1 2004 2:23AM GMT

"Photo Essay: 9 Reasons Not To Drink"

"Photo Essay: 9 Reasons Not To Drink" 04/20/2004 10:17 PM

21-year-old essay on copyright just as
fresh today

21-year-old essay on copyright just as
fresh today 05/04/2004 05:14 AM
Luís sez: "Barrington Bayley has a *very* interesting article written in the early 1980s about the ethics and the convention of copyright. It's also worth pointing out that Bayley is one of the great unheralded geniuses in the field of literary science fiction."

On the premise that graphic reproduction will eventually go the way of sound reproduction, i.e. it will become easy and cheap and available to all, the same is due to happen to literary copyright. It's a-coming, boys! You'd better get used to it!

...Yes, there is always going to be a living for writers. The consequence of the above is that a book, whether incarnated in ink and paper, laser disk, silicon, gallium arsenide, memory bubbles, or War and Peace encoded in DNA, will cost more than the blank on which it is inscribed, but not so much more that it would be worth your while to borrow a copy and duplicate it. Whatever deal authors and publishers make with one another will have to take cognisance of that. I expect authors will still be able to demand royalties. Whether an author will be able to become stinking rich, as a few now can, I don't know. What does it matter? It isn't necessary to the continuance of civilisation.

Luís adds, "This over twenty years ago." Link (Thanks, Luís!)

Beauty is only skin deep

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