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This is pretty darned cool. It’s a Sony IP Camera that is in Manhattan. Take control of the camera and spy on innocent people walking the streets, eating dinner, etc. Cool stuff.

Check out the new iPod! It’s pretty cool.

Well, what else can we expect from this retail giant? Wal-Mart is now being sued for rampant sex discrimination. “ Wal-Mart Inc. made female managers attend strip clubs with their male counterparts on business trips and company supervisors sometimes held meetings at Hooters, a restaurant with scantily clad waitresses“. Hmm… According [...]

Here is an interesting article from Wired magazine about video games. “Schools are skilling-and-drilling their way “back to basics,” moving toward mechanical instruction methods that rely on line-by-line scripting for teachers and endless multiple-choice testing.” As the article goes on to say, this type of learning is nothing more than having kids [...]

I saw and played with the two new Palm handhelds yesterday. I haven’t had enough time on one to write a review, but I do have some initial thoughts about the machines. One of them I really like. The other I’m in the air about.

I’m now trying OpenOffice.org 1.1beta. I was using the lastest stable version, 1.0.3.1, but thought I’d give the 1.1beta a try since I watched an CNET interview with Louis Suarez-Potts, community manager of OpenOffice.org. Suarez-Potts says that the 1.1beta is stable and he’s been using it for a while now and the [...]

Handhel shipments have gone down 21% since first quarter 2002. Palm still has the lead with 36% of the PDA market — most likely because of the $99 Zire. Sony got knocked down to position three with 16.30%. HP took over position two with 18.10% of the market — this is [...]