Thursday, April 15, 2004

ISPs to form national lobbying group. WASHINGTON -- A group of independent Internet service providers (ISPs), fearing they will be denied access to the broadband pipes owned by major cable and telecommunications companies, are forming a grassroots group to lobby the U.S. Congress. [InfoWorld: Top News] 10:26:23 PM    comment []

The Blog of Death. Memorials for the dead, and nothing else. Really. Here. [The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates] 6:51:16 PM    comment []

EFF guide to Gmail privacy [bOing bOing] 5:36:05 PM    comment []

Choosing a Grad School. If anyone's leaving grad school choice to the very last minute, some quick advice. (Beyond "Change the past so you acted earlier.") [Thoughts Arguments and Rants] Mostly good advice. I'd add: discount the reputation of the overall institution almost entirely. You're only interested in what your program is going to do. So, though few students from St. Louis should be considering going to Rutgers for their undergraduate education, for grad study in philosophy it's a whole different thing. Likewise, the undergrad luster of Ivy League or similarly tony names means just nothing for thinking about quality of a grad program. (It means something about the undergrad students you'll be TA'ing in front of, I suppose....) 7:11:45 AM    comment []

Clearing Up The Confusion. Paul Boutin talks with Snow Crash science-fiction writer Neal Stephenson about his latest book, The Confusion, the second part of his ambitious Baroque Cycle of novels. [Wired News] Ambitious ain't the half of it. But The Confusion looks to up the ante on the 'baroque' in "Baroque Cycle." I've barely started it, but long to soak in the whole thing. And this volume opens with a setting that harkens back to the primal, adrenaline-charged beauty of the first sequence in Snow Crash. (Number 12 on the best-selling list when I just checked.) 7:03:12 AM    comment []

For a Card, That Stores 1,000 Images. As the image-processing power of professional-grade digital cameras grows, so does the need for more storage capacity. Potential storage for professional shooters will double next month when Lexar Media introduces a new CompactFlash card that can put away eight gigabytes' worth of pictures. By Chris Larson. [New York Times: Technology] It's nothing like inexpensive, but whoa! 6:50:55 AM    comment []