So here’s an interesting tidbit from the Google Talk developer info: (hat tip arstechnica) We look forward to federating with any service provider who shares our belief in enabling user choice ...

I’ve had a background task running that steals a few cycles whenever I should be sleeping and checks out what it would get to make the laptop I have from work do WPA. I have a Thinkpad R51 I inheri...

Okay, not that I have the time to play with something new, but I had to get this out of my system cause I haven’t seen other comments yet (Well, except this one). One of the reasons I got really ja...

I snagged a PSP a while ago, figuring it would be fun for games but mostly wanting to hack on it. Sony really doesn’t like people being able to do what they want with Sony devices, so the thing is ...

The session on Community Modelling from BARcamp got me thinking about large scale simulations again, so I’ve been reading Terra Nova more carefully than before. This article really caught my eye to...

Apparently monkeys are being given a new drug to counteract the effects of sleep deprivation. And I’m sitting here drinking my Mountain Dew like a sucker. Now I admit it’s been a while since I’ve b...

There are two great posts over at Linux, Unit, /etc/: An Introduction to M4 Unix Web Hacks Together they describe both M4 and how to make use of it to carry out some webbish...

I’ve thought about systems like Mosix and their process migration ability with relation to moving about from one system to another. I would love to be able to just take a session from my desktop at...

The kick ass folks over at SocialText are hosting BAR Camp in Palo Alto while FOO Camp is going on. Definitely very cool! I’m right down in Palo Alto, so I should be able to make it. Friday might b...

Next Friday (August 19th) there’s a Future Salon titled Poetry of Brains. Spencer pinged to say he was going, and it’s been too long since I’ve been to a Future Salon event. And I admit it, I’m a s...