OpenID Explained History of the Internet on Vimeo UK mainland pub density map "Below are maps generated from the location data of over 28,000 pubs from www.beerintheevening.com. ... The highest pub density is in the Soho area of London." via Ken Technology Review: Moore’s Law via Joh...

WE HAVE A W I N N E R !!!!!!!! Yesterday we held a contest on our Features Blog for answers to a quotation from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Our Winner is from World Through Colored Glasses Blog. This is wonderful, because this is not an american blogger - nor is he african; but he’s smart enoug...

All Things RED Jon Erwin This is a mostly technical session. So I won’t be able to go as in depth on what they say as some of the other sessions. Isaac Botkin reminded us at the beginning that though it was a technical session, it’s related to technique and theology. “Technical is servant to T...

Here at Damaged we've never really been into specifically gay focussed  plays, gay books or that kind of stuff: always the same shit. Now a gay club, that's different: same shit but… interactive. Anyways, you  can imagine our quelle horror when we were told we were taking...

Starting off the new year with guns blazing, we have three books that promise action and suspense. Well, at least the covers do. Also, this is a bit of shelf-clearing since these are the only ones I own from the series, so it makes perfect sense to cover them all in one column. So let us continue do...

In a like vein as the story I posted a few days ago showing Reuters helping cover for Obama by lowering expectations, a trio of stories -- two from McClatchy and one from the AP -- prove to be little more than empty Obama boostering with little worth as news, though the AP piece at least comes close...

I’ve often said it, and I’ll say it again. The real value of social media lies in the ability for anyone to interact over anything. It is the interaction that creates the value. Smart people like Tim O’Reilly will tell you that web 2.0 is about the web becoming a platform. That dat...

I'm just finishing up Sun in a Bottle by Charles Seife. He covers the pursuit of fusion power from the early awareness of radioactivity, through the construction of fission bombs, onward to fusion research (magnetic confinement, inertial -- laser -- confinement) and fringe science, such as cold fusi...

Lately I've had a few people approach me after speaking engagements or conferences and ask for some advice on becoming a .NET developer.  Sometimes this has been moving into IT from an unrelated field or other times it's just been a transition of existing development skills into .NET.  Now if you ...

I wrote this up for another online venue, but I might as well put it (lightly edited) here. The idea was to recommend five movies that you think are “good” and that people are less likely to have seen. I chose these: From the Heist/Caper/RomCom Of The Old School pile, I’d choose O&...