A Graphical History of the Internet

(From MBA Online though I generally find MBAs rather useless.)

Via: MBA Online

This is looking interesting

The new ebook reader from Barnes and Noble will run on Google's Android OS and appears to have access to Google Books as well as what you'd get from B&N. Definitely worth a look.

Now that the official intro is over we see it does WiFi, handles PDFs, MP3s and lots of graphics formats although the latter is kind of wasted on a monochrome screen. Unfortunately we'll have to wait until Nov 30 to see it in the flesh^H^H^H^H^Hplastic.

Aegisub: If programming languages were religions...

http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html

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HOWTO: Capture streaming audio for later » Communications From Elsewhere » Blog Archive

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Geekitude

71% Geek

Sorry but my daughter made me do it.

The LHC rap

The real history of the personal computer

A friend sent me a link to an excellent recounting of the real roots of the personal computer in an article on the Computer World site. In the article, Forgotten PC history: The true origins of the personal computer, Lamont Woods recounts the creation in San Antonio of the CPU that would eventually become the Intel 8008, the primordial ancestor of the hearts of the vast majority of today's personal computers. The similarities between what happened with CTC/Datapoint -- Intel interaction related to computer hardware and the Digital Research -- Microsoft interaction related to software struck me as I read this piece. It even continues with a couple of the people involved with these creations, Tim Patterson and Federico Faggin, although Faggin got the far shorter end of the stick from Intel than Patterson did from Microsoft.

I Will Derive

One of the funniest things I've ever seen in the way of geek music satire!

Ok, the top of the wish list

So if anyone's looking for that perfect "get on his good side" thing for me then here it goes. A little while back ASUS created a very small PC called the Eee. Well they're back with the upgraded version and this review of it says, "Bring it on." For the same price you can either get less storage and Windows XP or 20 Gig of storage and Linux. I'll take the latter.

Internet History

Are you interested in knowing how we got from point A to point B as far as the underlying networking that is the Internet came to be? If so then check out Hobbes' Internet Timeline and see not only the technology but some of the business artifacts of this most important communications system. Included are such things as this drawing of the what the Internet looked like in 1969; three different types of computers on four major university campuses. Thirty-five years later, IBM is the only one still in business.

Is the end of Compuserve near?

The old CompuServe* as we knew it went away about a year ago, replaced by a Prospero CMS site that looks and feels like every other big community site on the web. Today the graphic banner at the top of the pages became the Netscape banner. I know both these sites are now essentially hosted on the same (cluster of?) servers with different URLs producing different content so this could just be a CMS screw up OR it could be CompuServe's last gasp.

*If you click that link, pointing to www.compuserve.com, then examine where you wind up, you'll see CompuServe is now joined at the hip with Netscape.