From the yearly archives:

2007

Tim O’Reilly – Static on the Dream Phone

December 15, 2007

Tim O’Reilly comments on Verizon’s latest promise to open its network to all appliances and applications in Static on the Dream Phone – New York Times “THE Internet and the cellphone are on a collision course . . . In the future, the cellphone and similar wireless devices, not the personal computer, will be the [...]

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The Writers On Strike

November 16, 2007

Thirteen days into the Hollywood Writers’ Strike and the blogs have sprung to life with daily accounts of writers walking the lines in Los Angeles. Screenwriters John August and Craig Mazin have running accounts of what it’s like out there in the first full-scale WGA strike since 1988. According to the Los Angeles Times, negotiations [...]

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2007 National Book Awards

November 15, 2007

Fiction Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson (Winner!) Fieldwork, by Mischa Berlinski Varieties of Disturbance: Stories, by Lydia Davis Then We Came To The End, by Josua Ferris Like You’d Understand Anway, by Jim Shepard Nonfiction Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA,, by Tim Weiner (Winner!) Brother, I’m Dying, by Edwidge Danticat God [...]

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10 Best Books of 2007 – New York Times

November 14, 2007

The 10 Best Books of 2007 – New York Times. 100 Notable Books of 2007 – New York Times.

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Brain2Robot

November 13, 2007

For decades, we’ve known, through the work of Benjamin Libet and others, that neuronal activity to initiate neuromuscular activity precedes conscious thought. Now scientists are attempting to harness those brain signals and put them to work. In the Brain2Robot project, an international team of researchers has developed a robot control system that works on the [...]

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