Thanks to David Neff’s nagging–er, I mean, encouragement–I switched my home browser to Firefox. It seems really quick, like getting a jump in bandwidth. It’s also got some cool features like an RSS detector. If you’re on a site that has an RSS feed, Firefox detects it and you can subscribe with a bookmark. So you get a browser and ...

Link: Wired News: Longing for a Blogging Candidate. About blogging in politics, but the remarks about blogging “voice” and conditions for effective blogging pertain to all forms.

Here’s an interesting blog discussion about blogging that pretty much sums up my attitude about blog governance: A blog that is PR-sanitized, scrubbed for messages, spun, or otherwise adulterated by over-protective flackery can’t really be called a blog. We need to get it a new name. Maybe it should be called a “press release” – sure bears the same high ...

Here’s an article about a researcher named John Fourkas who is using resin like your dentist uses to do transparent fillings and a very focused laser to build up really tiny structures. He can build up the letters spelling "hair" on top or a single human hair, for instance. "Gee whiz," you’re thinking, "But, so what?" Here’s where the guy ...