DocBugIntelligence, media technologies, intellectual property, and the occasional politicsKindle playing the game backwards- November 21, 2007 My coworker Steve Savitzky has some interesting musings on the Kindle, Amazon's new ebook reader: If you want everyone else's opinion, see the links after the cut. Here's mine: interesting play, but it's in the wrong game. You see, Kindle is Amazon's attempt at an iPod for books. They're using what they hope is an elegant, convenient, and reasonably-priced piece of hardware (which I'd guess that they're selling at pretty close to cost when you factor in the pre-paid data plan) to sell...http://docbug.com/blog/archives/000766.html Installing emacs23 with X11 support on Leopard- November 20, 2007 For some reason Fink has not yet updated their version of GNU emacs. While there are several other options, including Aquamacs, xemacs from Fink and the terminal-only emacs that comes pre-installed on OSX, I missed my traditional GNU Emacs running over X11. Luckily, with a few tweaks to this guide, the process was pretty painless — assuming you've already got Fink installed, just do the following (all from the Terminal): mkdir tmp cd tmp cvs -z3...http://docbug.com/blog/archives/000765.html Book chapter in "Extending Intelligence"- November 8, 2007 Back in 2001 I was a guest speaker at the Third International Spearman Seminar on Extending Intelligence, a seminar hosted by the Educational Testing Service's R&D Division and Sydney University's Department of Psychology. Most of the other speakers were either from the field of education or psychology, but I and a couple other speaker were brought in to provide a view from outside the field. I'm pleased to say those talks have finally been turned into a textbook, Extending Intelligence:...http://docbug.com/blog/archives/000764.html Steampunk Chicken-Walker Mech Costume- November 5, 2007 I have a long history of biting off more than I can chew when it comes to Halloween costumes. It's in that tradition that, when my friends suggested Star Wars as a theme for costumes this year, my first idea was to go as an AT-ST, the 2-man chicken-walker mech that the Ewoks beat up on in Return of the Jedi. After several design iterations I had left the Star Wars Universe behind in favor of a steampunk flavor, and thus was born the Steam Walker. The idea is to make it looks like I'm sitting.http://docbug.com/blog/archives/000763.html |