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Just saw EtherPEG on Guan’s laptop. Sniffs JPEGs and GIFs from all WiFi connections within range and displays them. See also O’Reilly writeup.

Note to self: OpenACS weblogger needs social networking tools … (I’m at Blogforum)

In Hamburg fixing OpenACS bugs with Malte, Timo, Dirk, Gert, Vanessa, Joel, and Peter :)

<img src=”/image-lib/hamburg-bug-squashing-fest-small” alt=”Hamburg Bug-Squashing Session at Malte…

An interesting thoguht with no real point from Jon Udell, Thought-provoking, nonetheless, that you can still run VisiCalc on Windows XP. It’s like a small piece of software archeology, remeniscent of …

We could add the positive effect on the economy by preventing monopolies. Open source software is by nature pro-competition, non-monopolist.

Neuroeconomics now shows how people do not act rationally in the narrow economic rationality sense. Rather, we trust each other, and that trust causes us to be better off, collectively, than we would’…

Fritz Hanzen Furniture:

To select a specific product you have to hover the mouse over the PRODUCTS link to unfold a categorized dropdown list.

If You for one reason or another do not see a dropdown …

AskTog: D’ohLT #2: Security D’ohLTs.

Excessive security can not only turn your financial and medical information into an open book, it can actually kill you.

Fifteen years ago, the approved method f…

Also by way of Clay Shirky, but written by Danny O’Brien:

On the net, you have public, or you have secrets. The private intermediate sphere, with its careful buffering. is shattered. E-mails are forw…

Clay Shirky: The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview. Once again, Clay demonstrates why he’s my favorite technology critic.

The people working on the Semantic Web greatly overestimate the value of…