The first televisions were electro-mechanical, using a spinning disk to scan images. Paul Gottlieb Nipkow came up with the disk idea in 1884, but it wasn’t until 1924-1925 the first television transmissions were made (separately) by Baird and Jenkins.
In a great American inventor story, Philo T. Farnsworth conceived of the idea for electronic raster [...]
Wow, Jared Tarbell makes very pretty interactive art in Flash.
Moshe Bar organized a 70-80 node 802.11b neighborhood network and provides it with proxy services and a 10Mbps upstream connection. (Archived version of the article: A Wireless Neighborhood Freenet.)
Interesting side result: web sites, IRC and commerce internal to the neighborhood network.
He mentions in passing some cool tech but his links are bad; here are [...]
Salman Rushdie says in the Guardian that we should define ourselves not only by what we are against, but by what we are for. Be pluralist, be proud. (I have his article from 2000 archived here).
After interminable hours fiddling around with CSS and templates, I’m finally ready to get started using my new web journal! Not that the templates are done — they’re still a work in progress — but they’re decent enough to use.
I’ve done a fair amount of work to get the site looking reasonably good in [...]