Where were you on August 6, 1991, the day the web was born? Last Sunday marked the 15th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s historic WWW project announcement on the alt.hypertext newsgroup, while he was working at CERN, which of course lead to the creation of the modern day web as we know it. Here’s his original…
100th Episode of “The Show With Ze Frank”
Today Ze Frank posted the 100th episode of his extremely amusing and sarcastic topical video blog “the show with zefrank”. Congratulations Ze! This sports racer wishes you continuted hilarity and success into the future, allowing you to continue thinking so we don’t have to.
bLaugh
Back in June during the Gnomedex conference, Chris Pirillo launched a hilarious new online comic called bLaugh, which pokes fun at various internet and web stuff. Chris does the writing and Brad Fitzpatrick does the great illustrations. They refer to it as the “(un)Official comic of the blogosphere”. Check it out, it’s a nice break…
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Verizon’s Novatel V640 EV-DO ExpressCard
At long last Verizon Wireless has officially announced that they will be offering the new Novatel V640 ExpressCard for EV-DO access. Those of us who have an Apple MacBook Pro (which uses the new ExpressCard slot) will finally be able to use EV-DO through a direct connection (my temporary solution was an EV-DO router). These…
Apple Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Preview
Today at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Steve Jobs’ keynote speech previewed Leopard, the 10.5 version of their OS X operating system which will be coming out in Spring 2007. One of the new features announced was Spaces, which allows you to have up to 4 multiple desktops. This is a…
Will Franken Podcast: Things We Did Before Reality
Rejoice! Will Franken has just entered the world of podcasting. Check out his hilarious new bi-monthly podcast: “Things We Did Before Reality” Featuring a medley of vignettes with bizarre story lines, each half-hour long episode will give voice to a devilish chorus of absurdist characters. photo credit: Scott Beale
Interactive City Summit
My friend Eric Paulos is organizing the Interactive City Summit which takes place Monday, August 7th and Tuesday, August 8th at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco. It is a kick-off event for the ZeroOne San Jose/ISEA2006 Symposium, with Interactive City being one of the themes of ISEA2006. The results of the Interactive City…