Browsing the blog archives for December, 2009

eBook Revolution?

26 Dec, 2009 in 73 by Lee

Amazon is reporting that on Christmas it sold more Kindle books than physicals books. At the moment, because it insists on charging no more than $9.99 for books, even for best-sellers, and despite publisher protests, Amazon loses money on each Kindle book it sells.
Now, we may find this impressive or not in and of [...]

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Mind Reading, Writing

25 Dec, 2009 in h+ by Lee

The Singularity-loving transhumanist guys over at h+ magazine have an interesting article on technologies that allow people to interface with machines via thought.
A brain wave study presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society shows that people with electrodes in their brains can “type” (input data into a computer) using just [...]

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DFW @ MLA II

23 Dec, 2009 in David Foster Wallace, MLA, Uncategorized by Lee

I’m still working on trying to figure out how to restore my older blog postings. I think my XML export file might’ve been corrupted during export. In the worst case scenario, I’ll manually restore my old posts, though that’ll screw up the dates and mean all comments on these posts will be forever [...]

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From Google Goggles to Omni Science

23 Dec, 2009 in Pop Apocalypse by Lee

Google has created an interesting new product for Android-based mobile devices called Google Goggles, which allows you to do visual searches based on images your phone’s camera captures. Needless to say, this is just one more step on the long road to the visual search revolution, as described in Pop Apocalypse. It’s all happening right [...]

Repairs Forthcoming

21 Dec, 2009 in Uncategorized by Lee

I’ve managed to import my old blogger postings to WordPress, but I still can’t quite import my XML export file containing everything I’ve written since I switched to this site. I hope to resolve this problem shortly, and restore all the shiny design elements while I’m at it.

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