Re-see what you think. Formal education has been stuck inside an industrial paradigm ever since industry won the industrial revolution. Let's call that Education 2.0. The pre-industrial model was Education 1.0. Digital tech, especially with AI, will bring on Education 3.0. That's the title of my post yesterday, which is getting more than the normal number Continue reading

Chrome question. One of my windows, with dozens of open tabs, vanished. How does one re-materialze it? ChatGPT says, Press Cmd + Y (Mac) or Ctrl + H (Windows) to open History. Look for a group entry like: “[Number] tabs – [Time]” under “Recently closed” or “Tabs from other devices.” Click it — the entire Continue reading

It isn’t how the ball bounces. It’s how you play. There comes a time in high-stakes basketball games when a team melts. That’s what happened to Duke. You could see it in the players’ body language, all through the closing half. They were playing not to lose. Houston was playing to win, with wicked, committed Continue reading

The big and scary news about the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, is that she died first, and suddenly, of hantavirus, which kills up to half the people it infects—often quickly.  It’s bad shit—or from bad shit: from rodents. Hackman, who had advanced Alzheimer’s, died later of his wife’s absent care. Their Continue reading

Naming today's tab dump after one of The Mamas and The Papas best songs. Here is a lipsync'd video on YouTube. Dig the old-skool stereo. Where I explained customer-to-company AI agent-to-AI agent interaction (you know, markets as conversations) in May of last year. Continue reading

If I share the link to one of my open tabs and close it, the reader gets a new tab when they click on the link, no? So, in that case I'm giving away tabs, seems to me on a Sunday afternoon. I don't have Hulu, and I don't have cable, but I do have Continue reading

While I am extremely pleased and grateful that 26 years of writing on Linux Journal survive online without being 404’d, I also realize that this condition probably won’t last forever. Also, some pieces are now missing their images and other graces. This is one of them. It is also one of my best, I think, Or Continue reading

I wrote this fake story on January 24, 2005, in an email to Peter Hirshberg after we jokingly came up with it during a phone call. Far as I know, it was the first mention of the word “iPhone.” Apple introduces one-button iPhone Shuffle To nobody’s surprise, Apple’s long-awaited entry into the telephony market is Continue reading

NFTs—Non-Fungible Tokens—are hot shit. Wikipedia explains (at that link), A non-fungible token (NFT) is a special type of cryptographic token that represents something unique. Unlike cryptocurrencies such bitcoin and many network or utility tokens,[a], NFTs are not mutually interchangeable and are thus not fungible in nature[1][2] Non-fungible tokens are used to create verifiable[how?] artificial scarcity in the digital domain, as well as digital ownership, and Continue reading

So yesterday evening, not long after sundown, we drove out to our usual spot in the countryside west of Santa Barbara to watch a big launch of a big rocket — NROL-71 — from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The launch had been scrubbed three times already, the last one only seven seconds from ignition. Just Continue reading

Here is the extent of the Thomas Fire, via VIIRS readings going back a week: Here are the active margins of the fire alone. The distance from one end to the other is about 40 miles: We also see it’s eleven or twelve separate fires at this point. The ones happening in the back country Continue reading

Old radio towers toppled as American Dream site preparations continue – News – NorthJersey.com Misses the real story. These were the towers that radiated 50,000 watts of WHN, WMGM, WFAN, WEVD and WEPN, all on 1050am, until several years ago, when an identical set of three towers were built a couple miles east of these. Continue reading

Crocuses are showing up next to sidewalks in New York, so it must be Spring, which seems like a good time to finish a pile of links I started compiling in December and forgot about. Here goes… Photography Mattresses, Brooms, and Art in Bulk, Tahtakale, Istanbul: Commerce Direct and Unadorned. By Stephen Lewis in Bubkes. Continue reading

Photography Snowcrystals.com, by Ken Libbrecht of Caltech. Follow the links. Amazing stuff. Alexey Kltijov‘s also amazing snowflake shots, with an explanation of technique Freedom vs. Surveillance Eben Moglen: Snowden and the Future. Three brilliant speeches so far, with one more to come. Are access and correction tools, opt-out buttons, and privacy dashboards the right solutions to Continue reading

— when I see this kind of stuff pop over what I came to read: Continue reading

Fashion XOAB, a new sock company started by @RickLevine (the quietest and most enterprising Cluetrain co-author) and his brother Neil. Dig the Kickstarter, which wasted no time reaching its $30k goal. The video rocks too. Follow progress: @XOABsocks. These Sci-Fi Dresses Were Made Using Mega-Magnets. By Liz Stinson in Wired. As a bonus, they erase Continue reading