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Ryan Sholin

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  • Technology & Anthropology

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    UPDATED For those of you playing along with the home game, this Summer I’m taking two classes: Technology & Civilization History of California since 1900 , and Emerging Global Cultures. They’re both undergraduate classes in other departments and don’t count toward my degree, but who cares – I’m here to get an actual education. The…

  • Reading Rudy Rucker

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    My three posts this afternoon have all been strictly anti-establishment, so I thought I’d lighten the mood by sharing something I’ve only begun to discover… Rudy Rucker is a painter, a science-fiction author, a photographer, a cinematographer, a collector of gnarl, and a Professor in the Computer Science department at SJSU. He’s listed as “recently…

  • Chinese Democracy Continued…

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    Let me know when companies that sell newsprint start telling newspapers what they can call themselves.

  • Podcast Functionality In iTunes TODAY

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    Bad Apple lets you use iTunes (Windows only for now) to find, download, and listen to podcasts. The iTunes relase of a month from now, today! Still mucking around to see if there’s some sort of alerty subscriptiony thing here, which there doesn’t seem to be – but it’s still WAY quicker/more pleasant than using…

  • Doin’ It On The Bus…

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    …reading my feeds, that is. Tuesday, on the way home from school Highway 17 bus style, I was making a first attempt at writing while riding, and managed to do it without any great amount of nausea. As the bus pulled into Scotts Valley, I flipped on the wi-fi switch just to see how many…

  • Tsunami Warning System

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    Last night, my Tsunami Warning System consisted of one piece of technology: ForecastFox, a Firefox extension that puts a few little live icons showing current weather conditions on my bookmarks toolbar, right there in the browser where I can see it. It updates periodically, and a little rectangular pop-up fades in and out unobtrusively (unless…

  • Jorge Cortell Redux

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    Interesting. Two days in a row, once on the old blog and once on the new, my post on the Jorge Cortell situation has attracted comments by individuals claiming that he has been discredited as some sort of fraud who faked his credentials. Of course, the comments have exactly the same text as their lead,…

  • Chinese Democracy

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    Sales pitch to China: Hey, have some Capitalism – yeah it’s good stuff, Free Market it up baby, yeah, you can be our most-favored trading partner, alright? How’s that sound? Great, terrific, maybe we can buy a few of your companies as soon as they get big enough to be useful to competitive with us,…

  • A Globe, Clothing Itself With A Brain*

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    *Pierre Teilhard de Chardin? This morning, I was listening to the pReboot podcast of Robert Scoble being interviewed by Nicole Simon. (mp3) It’s been fun playing the “keeping up with Scoble” game since he spoke at SJSU last February…yeah, yeah, I got Scobleized. The best part is listening to his schtick ideas evolve over time…

  • Art, disintermediated

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    Unofficial audio guides for the MoMA in NYC. Awesome – it’s mp3s of discussions about individual artworks – load ’em on the listening device of your choice, kick it over to the Museum, and hear real live human beings talk about the paintings, without the stuffy museum-ness of paying for the headphones/listening to the same…