Archive for July, 2003

Wednesday, July 30th, 2003

Cyborg Liberation Front

Saw this artice about the World Transhumanist Association conference at Yale University. This conference examines the implications of a human/tech melding to become “post-human”.
To me this seems like people who have only seen ancient single sailed boats, trying to understand the International Space Station. Sure, they could speculate and they might have a metaphor [...]

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Thursday, July 24th, 2003

Digital Gutenberg

The University of Texas at Austin now has their Gutenberg Bible online. As this CNN article states it’s not the first one to go online. But the more copies that go digital, the less the originals get used. And more people can use the digital copies. So the work is more widely distributed and the [...]

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Sunday, July 20th, 2003

And now for something completely different

A friend of mine told me about this site which is a pretty harsh counterpoint to the idea that vegetarianism is better for the planet etc, than eating meat. Specifically this site deals with the fact that animals are routinely killed as collateral damage in gain harvesting.
I grew up on a farm. We raised [...]

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Thursday, July 17th, 2003

Software that works

A couple of days of ago I installed the alpha of Thunderbird, the mail client from the folks now known as the Mozilla Foundation. My early impression is that it’s as good as any mail client out there, but being an alpha it of course lacks polish.
Slightly more polished (beta) is the RSS reader [...]

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Sunday, July 13th, 2003

Zone Alarm Pro

I just got Zone Alarm Pro for my Windows machine, not that I really needed it, I’m already behind a router so not a whole lot gets through anyway but ZA Pro has some good ad and pop-up blocking features and email protection.
Update: the ad and pop-up blocking is nice but Zone Alarm is [...]

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