LA Weekly on Napster
"Dr. Lincoln Stein, part of the project at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, is exploring how to use Napster-style automated resource discovery to enable scientists to publish their discoveries in the genome. The reason Stein and other experts are so excited is that Napster turns the prevailing computer technology of client-server on its side. ... 'We've been stuck in a client-server paradigm for many, many years. People who had stuff to share had to learn arcane knowledge, like FTP, static IP addresses - there were a lot of technical hurdles. The beauty of this system is, it does automatic resource discovery. Napster publishes the route to the user's information. Not just the IP address, which may change, but the port.' " If you didn't already think that Lincoln Stein was cool enough for having written
CGI.pm, he's also written
MP3::Napster.pm (requires threaded Perl).
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Yo-Yo Ma
real evil g2
A philosopher's café is not a philosophy lecture
"[T]he philosopher presides only as a moderator, to maintain the conversation on a philosophical footing. The discussion is thoughtful but nontechnical. You will be challenged to defend your beliefs or opinions, but you will not be asked to refer to a list of philosophy books in order to support your views. In fact, the opposite is usually true: Instead of showing off your erudition by referring to great works you may have studied, you will be obliged to think for yourself, to give your own reasons for the views you hold." via
ed's weblogNY Times : For Museums, Internet Art Is a Tricky Fit
"Alas, she discovered that the art in the room was silent for the moment. The noise she had heard was just the gallery's computer being restarted -- again." The strangest part though is the following : "But an RTMark member said the address was changed on the Whitney site, from rtmark.com to www.rtmark.com, so that the reprogramming was defeated and the group's standard site was displayed instead.", which suggests someone needs to read the
apache docs.
Susan Musgrave
will give a poetry reading in Montreal at
Dawson College, room 5B16 at 17h30.
The invisible hand of the marketplace
