This showed up in my mailbox courtesy of Kembrew McLeod. You must must must click on the picture. It’s on an actual patent.
Category Archives: Technology
Timex Computer
Steven writes in the comments to the subway chord post: OMG, you had a Timex Sinclair? It had a tape deck? I guess I didn’t know those things had any accessories. Okay, I remembered wrong. Looking at the pictures, I most clearly had a Timex ZX81. I actually inherited it from some friends of my …
New Text + Sage Update
(Scroll down to the bottom of the post if you just want the link to the article) This lovely note arrived in my email this morning: Dear Author We are pleased to send you a pdf file of your paper which will very shortly be published online in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. The page numbering is …
While on the subject of links to video links
Here is a link to a fascinating 5-minute film on how records were made in 1937, starring Duke Ellington and his orchestra.
HASTAC conference
I’m re-posting with for my friend Cathy Davidson, who is one of the main players in HASTAC, a very interesting digital humanities initiative. Sorry for the poor formatting. Call for Papers International HASTAC Conference “Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface” April 19-21, 2007 * www.hastac.org We are now soliciting papers and panel proposals for “Electronic …
Press Wrapup–Part I
So two of the interviews I gave appeared in print, and the gun quote appeared in both. Which makes me think in some small way it was worthwhile. I’ve reproduced the Montreal Gazette piece below. You can read the Hour piece here. There’s only one obvious problem with the Hour piece: never in my life …
A Few Words on Apple and Fiction
Blogsurfing led me to a post by “HCI User Advocate” about his private hell in switching from Windows to Mac. Then today I learned that you can finally buy microphone attachments for 5th generation iPods. Time for an entry about Apple. When the battery died on my old 3rd generation model, I went ahead and …