04 Jun 2003
The Browser is Gone

Oh no, your Honor, we're not a monopoly! Not us, nope, never have been.

Microsoft's browser play. The software giant hints it may no longer release a standalone browser, raising new questions about its monopoly endgame. [CNET News.com]

00:00 /Technology | 0 comments | permanent link

Paperless Problems

This article from Slate highlights a real cultural problem: lack of written records in a digital world. And it's only going to get worse as time goes by. Although this piece showcases the problem from a military perspective, it effects all organizations, governmental and private.

If you add DRM or other copy protection on top of this, it's simply not going to be possible for historians of the future to work this period in history because they'll have so very few accessable records.

00:00 /Copywrongs | 0 comments | permanent link

Ignoring the Gods

From The Chronicle of Higher Education comes this: Why Gods Should Matter in Social Science.

Even though it's couched as a defense of montheism, it covers all bases of religion - just note the plural "gods" in the title. It's a stunning indictment of the current attitude in the social sciences that religion is entirely a social construction and has no divine component whatsoever. Lot's of relevence here to Asatrurar, as we grope to reconstruct our ancient ways.

00:00 /Asatru | 0 comments | permanent link