Kaplan is too smart for me. Ingenious idea. A Site for Seeing Amazon Sales. Authors have a new way to track sales. Also: Downloads for the visually impaired … The Canterbury Tales get a facelift … and more in M.J. Rose’s notebook. [Wired News]
Most reporters do not understand technology. It’s entertaining to watch them try. Want to really have some fun? Watch the press at a Pentagon Press Briefing. Getting it Wrong. Google does nothing to change its searches while improving its advertising, but that’s not how the Associated Press told the story. [Linux Journal]
Out of control anti-gun hysteria. 8-year old boy criminally charged for pointing… a toy gun?. Kyle Forkner at [H]ard|OCP linked a news article today that k5 readers may find interesting. An 8-year old boy has been criminally charged for pointing a toy gun at other children. [kuro5hin.org]
Simply incredible. Pioneer 10 makes contact. One of the most distant probes ever launched into space has contacted Earth to say all is well. [BBC News: sci/tech]
This will be a great movie. If you’ve never read A Season on the Brink, by John Feinstein, you’re missing one of the greatest sports books ever written. With a book, a movie and a hot team, Bob Knight is back on the brink [USA Today : Front Page]
7:07am. Blogging and news time….
Cool. The Joy of Text (Ads). I swore they’d be launched today. It’s already been way too long since OSDN pulled the plug, and my wife is starting to get awfully worried about the bills. So there I was last night, around 10 o’clock, having just finished a twelve hour day writing the credit card billing code. I announced a Text Ad test period on #K5. And then the lights went out. I mean, literally, the power went out. The foghorns blew and the wind howled, and inside the house, it got eerily quiet with no whirring little case fans. But was I daunted? Did I curse this ill fate? No, not I. I dug out my headlamp, fired up the laptop, plugged it into the phone jack, and got back to work. It was a very Bruce Sterling moment. The upshot of all of this is that Text Ads are finally here. [kuro5hin.org]