February, 2006

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Feb 06

Basic rights

Om Malik notices that we’re living a Cached Life:

‘You have zero privacy anyway… Get over it.’ —
Scott McNealy , CEO of Sun in 1999


If we’re willing to give up (a certain amount of) privacy to gain something else, we should make sure that we don’t erode another fundamental right which is paramount to our democracy:

Freedom of Speech


However, like with every right which is granted to us, freedom of speech isn’t free. With it, there’s the obligation to use it responsibly.

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3
Feb 06

NASA’s Virtual Earth

Ole Eichhorn has a cool, zoomable version of the lastest NASA Virtual earth picture.

Miscellaneous / Programming — Comments Off
1
Feb 06

Dilbert

This one is goooooood.

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1
Feb 06

The Humane Interface

I had the pleasure to read “The Humane Interface” of the late Jeff Raskin over the christmas break.
Raskin very much focusses on techniques to make a touch-typing, text-processing power-user more efficient using the computer. While these techniques are definitely worth pondering, I was hoping for some insight on how to make the casual, non-touch-typing, non-power-user more efficient in using the computer to accomplish a task. That’s a much harder task than improving a power-users efficiency.

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