Stop AT&T From Taking your Web
"The First Real Battle in The Coming War of Internet Democracy".
Also, from Alternet, an interesting article on the recently exposed NSA wiretapping crisis.
Category Technology
Some more on Biofuels.
Just days after my article on Petroleum I found a Google Techtalk by Vinod Khosla, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and a renowned venture capitalist, who talks on the matter. I am embedding the video from his talk below. Click on the ‘play’ button to view it or go to the respective Google […]
Will Wright on the Computer History Museum (Google Video)
The man behind the SimCity and the Sims series of games, some of the world's most successful and original games of all time, speaks about game design, invoking the user imagination, modelling, and his own approach to gaming. Fascinating.
Computer History Museum on Google Video
I’ve written before about academic/technical/educational video content online, (MURL, Google Techtalks). Here’s some more. There are several interesting lectures by prominent figures from the industry, academia and research in a series of videos by the Computer History Museum available on Google Video. Some are more technical than others, but many cover well-known products, technologies and […]
ADSL2+
This is a rant. Τον περασμένο Νοέμβριο, αν δε με απατά η μνήμη μου, ένας φίλος με κάλεσε σε μια εκδήλωση της Hellas On Line, ενός από τους μικρούς-αλλά-γνωστούς ISPs της Ελλάδος. Η εκδήλωση λίγο πολύ αφορούσε σε νέα προϊόντα της εν λόγω εταιρίας, με στόχο κυρίως επιχειρήσεις, όπως τηλεδιάσκεψη, ευρυζωνικότητα με QoS κλπ. Έκείνη […]
Net neutrality at risk.
DMCA 2.0
Freedom, Rights, Privacy: Going, going, gone.
σινε+
Ξεκίνησε σήμερα και το δεύτερο ψηφιακό κανάλι της ΕΡΤ Ψηφιακής, το σινε+. Εκ πρώτης όψεως από το πρόγραμμα, το κανάλι φαίνεται πως θα έχει αρκετές ταινίες, ντοκυμαντέρ και παιδικά, 24 ώρες το 24ωρο, και όπως το πρίσμα+ δίχως διαφημίσεις. Ωραία όλα αυτά, όμως με πάνω από 5 ταινίες τη πρώτη ημέρα (άσχετα αν πολλές από […]
It's all about the real estate.
Ars argues about the usefulness multiple displays. After using dualhead setups almost exclusively for a few years now, I think the productivity advantage is more than clear, at least to me. One thing is certain: after a while, it makes the run-of-the-mill 17" 1280x1024 desktop look like a PDA.
HDR, Panoramas and the Jungle.
Today I took some pictures of Athens from Mt. Penteli just before sunset. The angle is more or less southwest. I used Auto Exposure Bracketing (±2 f-stops) and then prepared some HDR images. The one I thought was visually the best I downsampled to 2Mpixels and uploaded it here. I also made a panorama of […]