] Nokia on Tuesday said it's working with Hewlett-Packard
] to let customers print content from their cell phones.

Can anyone think of a good application for this? I'm stumped.

Can you hear me now, killing a tree?

] Make way for the ultimate high-rise project: the space
] elevator. Long viewed as science fiction "imagineering",
] researchers are gathering momentum in their pursuit to
] propel this uplifting concept into actuality.

Cyan blogged a recent article about this. I thought it was interesting and dug this up. Its a little more detailed.

The Space Elevator Comes Closer to Reality

Stop looking over your shoulder and invent something!

Cypherpunks write code.

Microsoft and the Commoditization of Software

This people browser groups the CHIplace members by the CHI roles specified in their user profiles. It uses the number of roles in common as a similarity measure. After grouping the members into similar clusters, a spring model places the clusters in two dimensions.

People Browser

] It seems that this particular spammer took things one
] step further, and made the "reply-to" address for all of
] his spam message set to my personal email address. If
] anyone looked at the headers, it was clear that I had
] nothing to do with the email whatsoever. However, most
] mail servers aren't so smart.

I've gotten hit with this several times in recent months. We don't need new laws to stop spam. We need federal law enforcement for petty crimes.

Techdirt:My Short Life As An Unintentional Spammer

] HEN Ronald L. Jones, an engineer and inventor, traveled
] from his home in Los Angeles to the Consumer Electronics
] Show in Las Vegas three years ago to seek backers for his
] product ideas, he was down to his last $800, and
] determined to make the trip fruitful.
] A mutual acquaintance set up a meeting with a business
] developer, Mark A. Bush, that turned into an all-night
] conversation about technology and opportunity. "I saw
] this brilliant guy with this big heart," Mr. Bush said.
] But while Mr. Jones was a whiz with printed circuits, he
] had made less time for business plans or legal documents.
] "A lot of people took advantage of Ron's ideas," Mr. Bush
] said. "I said, man, we've got to get your paperwork so no
] one can steal your stuff."

I always enjoy stories about successful entrepreneurs. I wish I didn't know that there are 100 guys like Mr. Jones who have never made it.

Getting Game Boy to Play Their Tune

] Hi, I'm Kelly, and this is my scream-body. Do you ever
] find yourself in a situation where you really have to
] scream, but you can't? Because you're at work, or you're
] in a classroom, or you're watching your children, or you
] are in any number of situations where it's just not
] permitted? Well, scream-body is a portable space for
] screaming. When the user screams into the scream-body
] their scream is silenced...but is also recorded, for
] later release where, when and how the user chooses."
] (screaming noises)]

] Now you laugh, which is great, but
] think about it: she designed a circuit board, she
] designed in a micro-controller, she programmed the
] micro-controller, she made the board herself, she
] developed PA-resistive squeeze sensors to control it,
] advanced engineering phones. You know, in a normal
] company there would be a team of engineers (a normal
] company wouldn't even do this anyway), and for her it's
] not product development, it's really kind of post-digital
] literacy, it's just mastering the means of expression.
] Design increasingly really can, and does, mean designers
] are crossing all these levels of description.

A really interesting article that goes from what to do with net connected microcontrollers to the idea of programming as basic literacy. Also happens to have the most annoying web page background I have ever seen in my life.

About Flow: Doors of Perception 7 on Flow

] Because the basic Moneo card is anonymous, there are no
] privacy or identity theft concerns. But if an owner loses
] his or her smart card, the cash that's stored onboard can
] be used by whoever finds it -- which is why there's a
] $107 storage limit.

Anonymous Digital Cash... The storage limit assists with the law enforcement concern without creating a privacy problem (but I wonder if its secure). I really like the system visa deployed in Atlanta. I could buy food and ride marta without dealing with tokens and cash (Marta tokens are really annoying). It was nice. Too bad it flopped.

CNN.com - Cashless society gets mixed reviews - Feb. 8, 2003

"I'm Steve, and I'm a Supervillain..."

Switch to Linux

... Young students readily adapted to a different mode of thinking, a mode that had been a genuine struggle for adults. It made sense for students to think in a nonlinear, interconnected, and dynamic fashion.

The Web of Knowledge: Vision, Design and Practice