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Opening Socialtext

Ross Mayfield has “preannounced”, along with some other news, that the wiki at the core of Socialtext will be open sourced in the near future. I’ve had a little bit of a chance to work with a Socialtext wiki, and have recommended them to others. But the fact remains that the barriers to entry made […]
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3 Macbook Pro annoyances

I’ve had the Macbook Pro for a week or two now, but I’ve really only been using it when I travel. That said, here are three minor annoyances. #1 – Power Corner is already gone The cover that protects the extender on the power cube is gone. It was destined from day 1 to be […]
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Think-a-writer

The Grail for Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI)–or at least an interim grail–is being able to think words into a computer. Through what seems to be a fairly painstaking process, this can now be accomplished. It’s an exciting proposition, I think, because it suggests the idea of typing at the speed of thought. Of course, it turns […]
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Who killed the electric car?

This is a mystery I’ve always been interested in, and so I was intrigued when I saw the trailer for this. Saw it before that very interesting piece of propaganda: An Inconvenient Truth, a film that argues compellingly that those who chose Powerpoint over Keynote, and Bush over Gore, should feel pretty stupid about now. […]
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