by Peter Seebach IBM

By David Pescovitz
Small Times Columnist

July 25, 2003 – Imagine your kitchen blender conks out the day you’re hosting a large cocktail party. You search an online catalog, decide on a model, and click the “buy” button. But instead of waiting three days for the appliance to be shipped to your door, a new kind of printer on your desk springs into action. Layer by layer, the miraculous machine squirts out various materials to form the chassis, the electronics, the motors – literally building the blender for you from the bottom up in a matter of hours…

…”liquid gold” consists of gold nanocrystals…

http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=6413

http://www.mailinator.com/

Monday July 28, 2003

Once upon a time, when Tony Blair was popular, Barry Sheen was alive and jeans didn’t come with those strange yellow fake dust stains on them, there lived three kings. These kings, called AOL, Lycos and Yahoo!, shared control of the kingdom of Internetia.

For many years the kings ruled with an iron hand; it was almost impossible to work, rest or play in Internetia without the permission of at least one of them. Internetia had vast natural deposits of news, information and shopping but the three kings were greedy, hiding these valuable resources away from ordinary citizens behind a wall of top stories, featured partners and stock quotes….

by Paul Carr
The Guardian – link here

Bad stuff? – Big Brother’s Enemy
“Some believe that RFID is going to usher in an age of government control, but that’s only because they don’t understand history.”

Mark Roberti is the Editor of RFID Journal

http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/509/1/1/
July 21st 2003Continue reading →

Computers, Robots, the future – must read :

http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm

http://www.amazon.com/webservices/

Looks like activity around Amazon’s web services is heating up. In the latest issue of their web services newsletter, the following revelation:

We are almost ready to kick off the beta for our payment system. The payment system will allow visitors to your site to use their Amazon account to pay you for any product or service. You can also offer subscriptions and controlled access to content. You will be able to verify the status of any transaction to make sure that the user has not rescinded it. We will provide you with a base-level API and you can construct your business logic on top.

anildash
http://www.dashes.com/anil/index.php?archives/006765.php

http://search.jxta.org/

http://dmoz.org/../Filtering_Spam/

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http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/

http://www.bitpass.com/
http://www.paystone.com

http://www.stupidsecurity.com/