The first time I saw Netscape was in the spring of ’94 on a friends 486. I shortly thereafter acquired a Pentium 75 ($5000!!!) with a 750 meg hard drive which is what a CD holds. My bandmates and I were stoked but somewhat bummed that 15 uncompressed songs or so would fill up the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Internet’
The Other Day the Music Died: Kurt Cobain RIP
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Internet, Kurt Cobain, Musical Sins, Netscape on April 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Internet is Making You, and Especially Your Children, Dumber
Posted in Our retarded kids, tagged Dumb children, Internet, shallows on June 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Reprinted without permission from www.ft.com The Shallows Review by Christopher Caldwell Published: May 30 2010 21:16 | Last updated: May 30 2010 21:16 The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr, Norton, $26.99 The subtitle of Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains leads one [...]
Deadliness Alert: The Great Computing Cloud Burst!
Posted in She Blinded Me with Science!, Zoltar, tagged Cloud Computing, Google, Internet, Zoltar on April 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Okay so let me get this straight.. While one hand is desperately trying to get a grip on the consequences of Too Big To Fail Financial Institutions the other hand is busy pushing ahead with the wonderful, “efficient” (man people do LOVE that word) technology of Cloud Computing which essentially derives it’s power from the [...]
Earth IS the computer!
Posted in The Prime Mover, Too Much Information, tagged Artificial Intelligence, don't believe the hype, Douglas Adams, G-Force, Google, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Internet, Zoltar on April 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
We call it “The Internet” or “The Web”. But don’t you think we need a name with a bit more weight behind it? Douglas Adams got it right when he wrote in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that “Earth is the Computer”. And he named it Deep Thought; which is pretty good but not nearly [...]
