* Gearhead: Of mice and madness * Backspin: 1984 plus 23 equals CACP * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: Of mice and madness
Welcome to the new, improved online Gearhead! We’ve got lots more room so stretch out, relax and feel the joy that is Gearhead . . . ahhhh.
To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.
Backspin: 1984 plus 23 equals CACP
Orwell’s novel 1984 has a number of major themes. There is the continuous “war,” which is used to justify the actions and policies of the government. There is doublethink and newspeak; the former the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in mind simultaneously and believe both to be true while the latter is the linguistic representation of the doublethink. And there is the pervasive, highly structured repression of the populace.
To read this week’s Backspin, click here.
Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Micro$oft Fixes Intel… ?
Micro$oft has released a “microcode patch” for Intel processors running XP/2003/Vista. Huh? If there is a defect in the microcode, how is it that Micro$oft can patch it, and why would it effect only some versions of Windows? On which Intel processors? The patch details aren’t very helpful …
Report from the front lines
Oh, grr. Yes, I said I wouldn’t write about that thing that’s happening today (you know what I’m talking about). But somebody I’ve actually met is is in one of those lines for that thing and she’s posting regular updates from her position in the Cambrideside Galleria in Cambridge, Mass. …
Time Sink #22: A Five Second Chipmunk Movie
Watch now.
Pew Report on Cyberbullying and Online Teens
The Pew Internet & American Life Project: has just released a new
short report that looks at “online harassment and cyberbullying among online teens ages 12-17.”
Saving Internet Radio
If you tried to tune into your favorite Internet radio station yesterday you would have heard nothing — yesterday was a “Day of Silence” to raise awareness of the attempt to get the Copyright Royalty Board to rescind their insane new royalty scheme for Internetcasting.
jQuery: Greatest thing since sliced bread?
Or toast, at any rate.
Next week, we’ll be making some changes to the way our article-comment system works. As a reader, we hope you’ll find they make articles and discussions on them easier to use. As site administrators, we’re going to enjoy better database performance since, unlike our current system, the simple act of calling up a Network World article will no longer automatically invoke a call to our Community (i.e., Drupal) database.
