Last time I checked, Western Union was still delivering telegrams, albeit with the distinct air of just going through the motions.
But no more: The final telegrams were dispatched on Jan. 27, 2006.
“Discontinuing this service completes our transformation into a financial services company.”
Those are the words of Victor Chayet. Mr. Chayet, who is not the […]
The new search engine Rollyo allows you to search your own hand-picked list of reliable sites (or unreliable sites, if you’re a deadbeat in search of community).
I’ve wanted just this sort of filtering tool—a “trusted sources” search—for a very long time. I can hardly wait for the promised bookmark-import feature.
First Wonder Showzen got renewed, […]
RCA has quite a web site. Which is surprising, really, all these years after it stopped being an actual company. I was expecting the internet equivalent of Buford’s Grocery, an old corner store I remember from childhood–they went out of business one day, but their sign (provided by the makers of 7UP) remained up for […]
The internet isn’t so big, if you’re small. To find out how much children understand about the net and its complexity, researcher Zheng Yan gathered responses from 83 kids.
One five-year-old-boy said “Um, it has two computers on it. It is ten square feet large. It wouldn’t hurt you”.
The children aged between nine and ten appeared […]
Even in the face of terror, some people manage to find creative ways to cope. Case in point: Scarlett Littlemore of London, who added this item to her 43 Things list:
Survive an Al-Qaeda attack right by my home
(Authorities are still trying to sort out who’s responsible for the London bombings, according to the New York […]
It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur…except that we’re entering a dark age for innovation. (The latter is from someone at the Pentagon, and everyone else discredits it. So it’s still a great time to be an entrepreneur!)
Connotea is kind of a del.icio.us for scientists. I’m not one, but I crashed its gates and instantly found a link to Clay Shirky, who argues that “Ontology is Overrated”. Here he speaks not so much of philosophy–though that, too, falls within his purview–but of artificial intelligence and knowledge management, which also deal with entities […]