A pair of articles in today’s New York Times (“Vote Fraud Theories, Spread by Blogs, Are Quickly Buried,” by Tom Zeller Jr., and “Mostly Good Reviews for Electronic Voting,” by John Schwartz) do a good job of addressing some of the increasingly widespread concerns about apparent inconsistencies in last week’s election, but the conclusion that …
Category Archives: Tech
iPod hotness.
It’s hard to know which of these two new versions of the iPod is hotter. The black, U2-themed iPod: Or the full-color, digital-camera-supporting iPod: I’d get a lot more mileage out of the color one, but a black iPod is just sexy. Well done, Apple.
Cavailer Daily RSS feed.
Avoiding schoolwork that I really should have done now because it’s late and I won’t have time before my classes tomorrow shit what was I thinking, I cobbled together Cavalier Daily RSS feed, too.
WINA, Progress RSS feeds.
For all you Charlottesville kids, I’ve set up screen-scraped RSS feeds for The Daily Progress and WINA. It’s not as exhaustive as if each of ’em would get off their managerial butts and have their techs get with the ’00s and spend 30 minutes writing a proper newsfeed, but it’s something.
I’ll wait.
Mallapuram, India builds rural wireless network blanketing entire state. Still no WiFi in Charlottesville. (Thanks to John.)
Blogger Boucher.
My representative in the House, Rick Boucher (VA-9), is guestblogging for Larry Lessig this week, and it seems that the whole of the ‘net is abuzz about it. Yesterday he blogged about the Induce Act, and today the DMCA and fair use. He’s not only writing up entries, but then engaging in discussion with the …
Kilgore’s magic-computer warning.
Writes Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore (PDF), in his and his fellow attorneys general new fight against computer-to-computer communication: P2P file-sharing technology can allow its users to access the files of other users, even when the computer is ‘off’ if the computer itself is connected to the Internet via broadband. Shoo-whee! That must be some …
New Toy: Iomega Micro Mini Drive.
For my birthday on Saturday, Noah gave me a gift certificate to ThinkGeek, one of my favorite places to look at things that I’d really like to buy something but not have the money to buy anything because I’m a poor student. Kid, candy store, etc., but I did ultimately manage to pick something out …
Sprint phone book rocks.
I’m no fan of Sprint. After they bought Centel in the early 1990s, Charlottesville became one of the few cities in the nation with a long-distance carrier as a local provider. (After the FCC changed their regulations and there was much market reshuffling, this is now standard, of course.) I’ll be happy if I never …
Still waiting.
100 blocks of downtown Spokane, Washington now have free WiFi, at a total cost of just $75k. Still no wireless in Charlottesville. (A tip o’ the weinerdog to Justin.)