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Fascinating piece on CNN about the electronic nerve center of what may be the First Wired War.
Some combatants, however, are properly skeptical:
“A computer with a bullet in it is just a paperweight,” Hauk said. “A map with a bullet in it is still a map.”
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I’m going to leave it for others to analyze and critique today’s ceremony at Ground Zero. I just wanted to post here an eyewitness piece I wrote the afternoon of 9/11 (and which ran the next day in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram) to remind us how it began.
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Tough business, magazines. Even after 161 years, you’ve got to make a profit.
Fortunately, the archives will remain online.
Is there really so little to satirize in contemporary England? Seems unlikely.
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The Times reports on the impending opening of the for-profit Museum of Sex on 5th Avenue and 27th Street.
The guy behind the museum, Daniel Gluck, has been described in press reports as a “former software executive,” but I’ve been unable to find out his tech connection. When he started this project, he was teamed with artist Alison Maddex and her partner, the academic Camille Paglia. At the end of 2000, however, Maddex and Paglia apparently split with Gluck and the project.
There is a tech connection with the Museum of Sex: software developer, philanthropist, and art maven Peter Norton had some money in the project, back when it was still a non-profit. I don’t know if Norton is still involved.
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Interesting project going on at nycbloggers.com — to collect all the webloggers in New York City and organize them by subway stop. I like the idea; I’ve registered and added a linkback logo over on the right.
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Nice piece by Charlie LeDuff of the NYTimes about the dismantling of the last steel column at Ground Zero:
Let history show that many of these men and women were here on the afternoon of Sept. 11, having abandoned their jobs elsewhere in the metropolitan region. How they scribbled their names and phone numbers on their forearms those first few days in case they were swallowed up in a hole and killed.
Also, let it note these small memories. How the workers wept over the abandoned shoes lying in the streets left by people running for their lives. How people laughed that second evening as the ironworkers wore cashmere coats and scarves and fedoras from Brooks Brothers as they burned the steel to brace themselves against the cold.
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WARWICK, England (CNN) — A mathematical formula calculated by a British university professor has found that time actually is money.
Economics professor Ian Walker, of central England’s Warwick University, says process can show people just how valuable their time is in relation to any task they have to perform, from a lie-in or cooking a meal to sleeping and working.
You want the equation? Click the link. But hurry.
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Pretty good piece in Microcontent News about the weblog ecology. (First point: who knew that there’s a trade mag — even an online one — about microcontent?) The piece could use a serious edit, and the top of it shows some startling naivite about the media feeding chain. But when the author turns his attention to weblogs, there’s lots of good information here.
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This is from The Register, and contains a link to the core document from the ACLU:
Face recognition kit fails in Fla airport. How about fifty false positives a day?
Authorities here in New York just put in a face recognition system to monitor the line of tourists queuing up to get on the boat to the Statue of Liberty. This despite ample evidence — even before these Palm Beach findings — that face recognition is not ready for prime time.
To answer my own question: No, I don’t feel any safer. Thanks for asking.