Sunday, June 20, 2004

When Coral Turns White. Stress may not suddenly turn hair white, but it can drain the color from a coral reef. By Henry Fountain. [New York Times: Science] 1:46:10 PM    comments

Costs of Warming on the Rise. Scientists say climate change is upon us, and the longer we wait to do something, the more expensive it will be. Also: New York air is getting worse.... Coral reefs gain protection. By Stephen Leahy. [Wired News] 1:00:34 PM    comments

Saturday, September 27, 2003

Nokia Nokia Leaps into the Future. Nokia Stuns Everyone "Well, much to our surprise and delight, that Nokia phone we reported on yesterday turned out to be real. But it's not called the 7800, it's the 7600. And further stunning everyone, Nokia's also coming out with about a million other new products today. Besides the 7600 Imaging Phone (which is a WCDMA/GSM phone with a 65,000 color display, Bluetooth, and a built-in digital camera), Nokia also unveiled a new line of "Imagewear" products for displaying and viewing digital photos, including two medallions with tiny LCD screens, two digital picture frames, and a digital photo kaleidoscope. Read - Nokia 7600 Imaging Phone Read - Nokia Medallion I Read - Nokia Medallion II Read - Nokia Image Frame SU-4 Read - Nokia Image Frame SU-7 Read - Nokia Kaleidoscope I" [Gizmodo] Some very cool stuff here that, unfortunately, I don't have time to delve into deeply tonight. Alan Reiter handles some of it for me, though. [The Shifted Librarian] 11:26:32 AM    comments

Sunday, October 13, 2002

Macworld offers tips for building Web sites. Build Dynamic Web Sites Without Leaving Your Mac. MacWorld: “With the release of OS X, Mac users can at last build, test, and deploy dynamic Web sites—all from a single machine. Now, the same database tools used to build world-class Internet sites such as those from NASA, MP3.com, and Yahoo Finance are available for free to OS X users.” [ranchero.com] [Mac Net Journal] 6:29:56 PM    comments

A great source of Radio scripts. Andy Fragen has a script that will fix the limitation of moving a Radio installation to a different hard disk, different machine, or even a different location on your current machine among the great collection of Radio scripts on his Scripts page. Thanks for Jake Savin for the pointer. [Mac Net Journal] 6:29:07 PM    comments

Learning UNIX for Mac OS X [Slashdot] 5:47:58 PM    comments

Sunday, July 21, 2002

RealNetworks RealNetworks Poses Challenge to Microsoft. In a significant challenge to Microsoft, RealNetworks plans to announce a new version of its software that can distribute audio and video in a range of formats, including Microsoft's own proprietary Windows Media. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Business] 6:46:27 PM    comments

Tuesday, January 29, 2002

This is a link to the Divers Alert Network (DAN) 9:32:36 PM    comments

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