Toshio Fuji shares a nicely done Quicktime VR Tour of Tokyo’s Urababa area.
Monthly Archives: August 2004
MP3 Blogs
Noah Adams talks with technology correspondent Xeni Jardin about a new method of digital music trading. Using so-called MP3 “blogs,” music fans trade and comment on songs that are often unusual twists on familiar favorites. A yin to this yang.
High Tech Sports Doping
Omar Wasow talks about the illegal methods to enhance performance, and how athletes try to fool drug tests.
“Extra Embryos”
Where do the “extra embryo’s go? Kristen Philipkoski takes a look.
Farmers Market Photos
Dave mentioned Madison’s wonderful farmer’s market today. Here are some of my favorite photos.
Dave & Madison
The original blogger, Dave Winer is driving to Madison, hopefully arriving later this week. Dave’s site, scripting news spawned a revolution in personal journalism.
I’m hoping to organize a dinner (Sunday?). Email me: zellmer at mailbag dot com if you are interested.
Ancient Greeks & War
Thomas Palaima says the ancient Greeks lived intimately with the brutality of war, unlike present times, when many American civilians are shielded from the effects of the war in Iraq.
Your tax dollars at work
Nice to see the DOJ carrying water for Hollywood. Surely there are more pressing matters. Our tax dollars at work.
Plus ca change
Alex Tabarrok takes us back to the future, via 1900:
There is a widespread prejudice against the newspapers, based on the belief that they cannot be trusted to report truly the current events in the world’s life on account of incompetence or venality. But in spite of this distrust we are almost altogether dependent on them for our knowledge of widely interesting events….The function of the newspaper in a well-ordered society is to control the state through the authority of facts, not to drive nations and social classes headlong into war through the power of passion and prejudice.
The source? The American Newspaper: A Study in Social Psychology (JSTOR) by one Delos Wilcox writing in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science…. July 1900.
The GPS Watch
Learn more about the GPS Watch here $129.00.