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User Input: Engineered Disappointment

Yes, I'm sure my life will never be the same again once I get me a pair of these!

If you follow the latest technology news — probably on other sites, we tend to be absolute crap when it comes to delivering up-to-the-minute buzz on the tech industry — you’re probably used to [...]

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The Internet’s Undersea World

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Internet x Tokyo Metro

Some people have way too much free time…

Is this supposed to be useful, I wonder?

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User Input: Grasping For Headlines

I had CNN on in the background while eating breakfast on Sunday, and with no discernible volume I could only use what I could read on the screen to divine what it was they were talking about. Taken out of context, the headline on the bottom of the screen read “CRISIS IN [...]

The Style of Technology

Mapping the Internet

Maps are useful things. They show us how to get from Point A to Point B on roads, rail and subways. They show us that Edmonton really is not the center of the universe. They can even tell us where to lay our telegraph cable.

IP Density in the World

Information in [...]

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User Input: Polluted Cloud Edition

“I hate the PC.” — Larry Ellison

In 1996 the president of Oracle predicted the PC would be gone by now and everything would be in the cloud; information whizzing around making that little noise like the cars on The Jetsons. I feared a world where I needed to rely on something as flaky as my 14k baud modem. And while Larry’s dream is being realized by Google and Amazon, I’m not exactly seeing the chrome and ivory future that he was referring to. My desktop computer is alive and well – and a fair bit beefier than the PC I had when I was told they were going to die out. So much for the cloud, right? Continue reading User Input: Polluted Cloud Edition