* Gearhead: Taking computers under water * Backspin: ICANN, crashed in the cranium * The past 7 days on Gibbsblog
Gearhead: Taking computers under water
We started scuba diving and got certified about 16 years ago, and then for various reasons, we stopped. Over the years we talked about starting again, but there was always something that was more important, so we put it off.
To read Gearhead in its entirety, click here.
Backspin: ICANN, crashed in the cranium
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees Internet domain names, last June was ready to give the .xxx global top-level domain (gTLD) the go-ahead, but on May 10 this year it changed its mind.
To read Backspin in its entirety, click here.
The past 7 days on Gibbsblog
Pandora’s Music Box
If you love music a service called Pandora will astound you!
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Him, Roomba geek (Update)
Sometime ago I blogged about some creative Roomba hacking. Here’s an outstanding collection of Roomba-related stuff pointed to by an article in MIT’s Technology Review. [Thanks to Marcia Blake.]
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Time Sink #11: Falling Georgie
Nice Flash toy: Falling Georgie … Click, drag, and drop to move or click and grab an appendage and yank for even greater amusement …
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Transparent VW Phaeton Factory in Dresden
No, it really is transparent! This has to be the world’s cleanest car building factory! (Be patient, the page that loads from the VWvortex Forums is huge — not a good format choice.)
