techno-culture

Words cannot do justice to the video. Yes, it IS the greatest of the arcade games, as far as I am concerned, and stole more of my quarters than Centipede, and it’s heartwarming to know it even has an inter-species appeal. One can only assume the flashing fruit bonus points are particularly appealing to a [...]

…Chris reveals what a major geek boy he is!

Oh, this is very cool. I am going to see if I can head out to the West Coast for some other work and overlap with this conference. Wiki here. And held in my favourite venue, the Computer History Museum.

I’ve been chatting with Sean Lyons of Zimbie, an IM application developed at Waterford Institute of Technology that delivers services via IM and enables people with a related interest to form chat groups on the fly. It could also serve as an alert manager for new blog posts and could allow a blog’s readership to [...]

An incredible story of lost WWII airmen seemingly found at last: He was sitting on top of the rocks when they found him, hunched over like a writer might lean into a keyboard. With his left arm tucked into his chest, the Army airman, or what remained of him after six decades atop this California [...]

… and get nothing done. This mashup site with the rather amusing name pulls together the top 12 video sites and shows the top video being watched at each of those sites. Hover over the thumbnail and you get a larger window to check out whether you really, really want to watch it. Come to [...]

CIO magazine ranks them in an interesting article. Amogst the contenders are the world’s most intriguing (and mysterious) data centre, Google’s Oregon facility, and the world’s largest grid computing project, the EGEE-II project to analyze data from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Maybe they should include the garda and health service computer projects, also large and [...]

OK, folks, Doc Searls says he’d love to come back over to Ireland if we can give him an excuse. I’ve passed the word to a few of you out there. Let’s get something sorted!

Awww, this is great stuff this morning on the front of the Irish Times: Irish UFOs! So there, Ireland has UFOs too. To think I wasted all that time getting data retention stuff on Freedom of Information requests when I could have been getting this: An off-duty garda and a farmer were cutting turf near [...]

Doc Searls’ new blog is here so be sure to change your blogroll if you link to Doc and add him on now if you don’t as he has a great mix of tech and general musings. Something nicely provocative from his new blog: We’ve not only hardly started to build the new (or renewed) [...]

This is one of the weirder stories I have seen in a while. Three consecutive days of playing computer games at an internet cafe in China apparently caused the death (from exhaustion) of this man.

Only two years ago both San Francisco and the greater Silicon Valley area had a couple of very ambitious and exciting public wireless projects on the cards. Now, according to folks out here in the Valley (where I am for about a week), those plans have gone so badly awry that it looks like neither [...]