"Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences."
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06.21.07Del.icio.us Link Stroll: How Google Gears Could Kill Microsoft, Google Elucidates “Net Neutrality”, Judge Makes Life Difficult for the RIAAWelcome to another leisurely stroll through my recently collected del.icio.us links. As always, feel free to add me ("Tenken" on del.icio.us) to your network if you'd like to share your own links with me. You can also subscribe to this RSS feed of my del.icio.us findings. How Google Gears Could Foreshadow Death for Microsoft: I've recently rediscovered Slate after spending most of my time over at Salon these past few months, and it's articles like this that make me kick myself for ignoring Slate for so long. Here, Slate's Harry McCracken argues that Google Gears introduces functionality that will be ...
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05.09.07Who is the oFone really making fun of?My day started off with the dose of hi-larity below. I present to you, the oFone: Continue Reading...
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12.03.06Hard Disk Catastrophe: How to Recover Data from a Formatted Hard DriveYou know what's ironic? I work in desktop support, and I tell people to back up their data every day. Yet just recently I experienced my worst case of data loss ever, which could have been easily avoided had I just backed up my massive collection of music (nearly 50GB by this point) and lesser (but more invaluable) collection of digital photos. It all started when I decided to do a clean installation of Windows XP. I was having an annoying issue that was preventing me from loading XP without using the "Last known config" option at startup, and multiple repair ...
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11.06.06HD On Demand for the Xbox 360OK I know it's been a while since I last updated, but I think I've finally gotten over the fact that A) nobody reads this blog and B) it's just one of many of the same sort of tech punditry blogs online. My impetus behind this thing was to find my voice in tech writing while discussing interesting topics. I'll try to keep that in mind and force myself to update consistently. Anyway, MS just announced that they will be offering HD content on-demand for the 360. Who knew they could keep a secret so well? In a ...
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