Monthly archive May, 2009

We'll leave it to people with more time and expertise to analyze the impact and ramifications of creating a federal cybersecurity office and appointing a cyberczar. Besides, the inevitable political back-and-forth about the perceived effectiveness or Read More →

Musings and a roundup of tidbits about Google Wave, which, in case you were unaware, yesterday was unveiled to great fanfare at a developers conference: *Much of the coverage of the yet-to-be-released communication platform from Google is breathless. GMSV certainly hopes Read More →

"There are so many things you can't anticipate when you create a new technology. Who would have predicted that the Internet would be taking down shopping malls and wiping out newspapers?'' — Mark Verheiden, a "Battlestar Galactica" writer, on technology's Read More →

A thinking musician isn't an oxymoron. Here, then, are albums based on literature. Plus, say Swiss cheese: Transparent public toilets from Switzerland. Read More →