An old article on the Economist web site about the rapidly growing quantity of information in the world brought me back to an old idea I had espoused a while back regarding information having density and fact representing an asymptote. Read more…
[Banapana is undergoing some category changes and reshuffling of content in an attempt to retain more focus -- please bare with me] A few summers back I read False Dawn
Nicholas Negroponte is moving forward with his plans to unveil a sub $100 laptop to provide to children around the world. I posted on this a while ago on Banapana but despite my suggestion, it’s great to see them moving forward with this project and creating what looks like a really innovative laptop.
Some students at George Mason University have put together a wiki that will document the construction of a small open source robot (costing roughly $800). I don’t have much to add to this other than it’s cool and that I’ve been looking to upgrade from Mindstorms for a little while now.
Slashdot had a delightful story about BitTorrent receiving a venture capital investment of about $8.75 million dollars. In the announcement, Ashwin Navin, co-founder, stated that they wanted BitTorrent to go legit and serve approved and ad-driven content. About damn time, I say.
