I hope everybody heard about and got to see the cartoon short <i>Lego Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick</i> on Sunday night. It was extremely well done.<br /> <br /> Fortunately there was a posting about it on the our local science fiction club's mailing list (<a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=261&entry_id=46" title="http://www.staronedelta.org" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.staronedelta.org';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">Star One Delta</a>), [...]
Star Wars EVERYWHERE!
May 9, 2005 By Leave a Comment
"The Broadcast Flag" – A Fable in One Part
May 8, 2005 By Leave a Comment
There once was a national agency to regulate the transmission of any type of signal through the air. Like all agencies, it seemed a good thing when it was created… <br /> <br /> First, they had control of the broadcast waves themselves. With a little stretch, they grabbed the ability to control the content. [...]
Innovative news presentation at Newsmap
May 7, 2005 By Leave a Comment
One of the most interesting news sites I have found is an innovative presentation called <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=112&entry_id=39" title="http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">Newsmap</a>.<br /> <br /> Newsmap concentrates and presents news excerpts in a treemap visualization. Each block in the treemap is sized according to the popularity of the item at Google's news site. Of course, [...]
Apple’s OS X — and the Windows pundits
May 7, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Background: This week, Apple Computer released it's latest operating system for its Mac computers. Officially known as OS X, version 10.4, this version has the code name "Tiger." <br /> <br /> At virtually the same time, Apple released a large package of updates for the previous version 10.3.9 ("Panther"). <br /> <br /> What [...]
Radio Show appearance May 7, 2005
May 6, 2005 By Leave a Comment
I'm scheduled to co-host the Cajun Clickers Radio Show on Saturday, May 7th at 9:00am on station WJBO. This is a computer question call-in show.<br /> <br /> Even better, WJBO provides access via the Internet to its radio show, so you can listen via <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=108&entry_id=38" title="http://www.wjbo.com" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.wjbo.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">streaming audio</a> to your [...]
Bug’s Bleat!
May 6, 2005 By Leave a Comment
James McClellan has converted his weekly Bug's Bleat newsletter into a blog. James is a friend of mine from a former employer.<br /> <br /> The goal of <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=110&entry_id=37" title="http://bugsbleatnew.blogspot.com/" onmouseover="window.status='http://bugsbleatnew.blogspot.com/';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">Bug's Bleat</a> is to be the "Internet version of the Ed Sullivan Show." It's entertaining, informative, funny, personal, patriotic and respects [...]
Firefox tops 50 Million Downloads
May 5, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Congratulations to the Mozilla Foundation and all the people contributing their efforts to make the Firefox web browser a success! Version 1.0 was released in early November. Last Friday morning, Firefox topped 50,000,000 downloads.<br /> <br /> I've been using Firefox since the 0.7 beta version, after reading comments about it in Maximum PC. I.E. [...]
Linux — now for the home computer user
May 5, 2005 By Leave a Comment
I've been playing recently with a copy of the Open Circulation Edition (a.k.a. free) version of <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=89&entry_id=34" title="http://www.xandros.com" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.xandros.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">Xandros</a> Desktop version 3. Pretty cool system.<br /> <br /> I'd used Xandros v1 and v1.1 a couple years ago, so I knew to expect a smooth-running, graphical desktop that was an easy [...]
Blogging in public
May 4, 2005 By Leave a Comment
One of the hot Internet topics these days is the "Blog," which is short for "web log." After working with Serendipity blogging software on my in-house Linux box for a few months, I'm finally putting it on a public server.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=73&entry_id=33" title="http://www.thenextwindow.com" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.thenextwindow.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">The Next Window</a> is the name [...]