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The Existential Whisk: Why Google Wants Your Data
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Doings and Musings of Mitchell Howe. Monday, January 16, 2006. Why Google Wants Your Data. I was configuring my Gmail account for POP access today when the thought occurred to me: "Why does Google let me do this? Gmail makes the company money only when users click on ads. When I access my email via POP, I never even visit the site.". Personally, I think Google is just looking ahead - to the era of personally-tailored search results. Google, on the other hand, will talk about Linux until about the 20th li...
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The Existential Whisk: New Home
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Doings and Musings of Mitchell Howe. Monday, January 02, 2006. I had been itching to buy a new domain and switch web space providers for some time. I also had a number of longer written pieces near the end of the production pipeline without any great place to put them. Seemed like the best way to pull everything together. As mentioned there, I'm not getting rid of this blog. But when I have longer pieces I will host them on my site and link to them from here. Posted by Mitch Howe at 12:56 PM.
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The Existential Whisk: January 2005
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Doings and Musings of Mitchell Howe. Monday, January 03, 2005. Transcension': Boy Meets Girl Meets Singularity. It is a testament to good storytelling that in a novel suffused with high technology of the pre- and post singularity ages, a thread revolving around a young man in an Amish-like community can be the most compelling. Such is the nature of Damien Broderick’s ‘ Transcension. A clever blend of nostalgia and discovery that satisfies despite a couple of important flaws. Or is it pure fantasy? And th...
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The Existential Whisk: X-Mas List Item #6: An Open, Fully-Supported E-book Reader
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Doings and Musings of Mitchell Howe. Friday, December 23, 2005. X-Mas List Item #6: An Open, Fully-Supported E-book Reader. Pull up a chair and grab an eggnog, and I shall tell you the the haunting tale of the First E-book Migration. But being first type of media capable. Still It was morning in dot-com America. E-books were possible, so they had to be done. Ships under many flags disappeared over the horizon. They had names like Franklin. Manufacturers and publishers sported a ridiculous array of incomp...
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The Existential Whisk: Want a Manhattan Project? Take a Number
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Doings and Musings of Mitchell Howe. Friday, February 24, 2006. Want a Manhattan Project? It seems that everyone these days is calling for new Manhattan Project. I'll bet you've heard these cries from people looking for a 'new energy economy' or something related - maybe fuel cell development, or a serious dent in global warming. But if you're waiting in line for your own Genuine Manhattan Project, be warned: A Manhattan Project ain't what it used to be, if it ever was. Spent by the US on the war. Perhap...
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The Existential Whisk: X-Mas List Item #5: Any Katamari PC Component
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Doings and Musings of Mitchell Howe. Tuesday, December 20, 2005. X-Mas List Item #5: Any Katamari PC Component. In order to get me this gift, Quantum Future Santa. I'm sending you to a somewhat less probable future. I will probably never find myself there. But I might. Let me explain so you know what the heck I'm talking about. Separate cores connected to a general purpose CPU that can act as two, for a total of 10 simultaneous threads. I'm emphasizing the threads, because from the progarmmer's standpoin...
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The Existential Whisk: February 2005
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Doings and Musings of Mitchell Howe. Sunday, February 27, 2005. Piqued my curiosity about Flickr. A rapidly growing online photo hosting service that emphasizes community-oriented features. By making it easy for subscribers to locate, organize, and markup their own and each others’ photos, Flickr becomes one humongous photo album/personal directory with the combined industriousness and intelligence of all its users. When I’m searching for an image of something I’m reading or thinking about. It’s well...
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The Existential Whisk: Singularity Summit 05-13-06: Big Names, Big Ideas
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Doings and Musings of Mitchell Howe. Thursday, May 04, 2006. Singularity Summit 05-13-06: Big Names, Big Ideas. Have you registered to attend the Singularity Summit. This is our Woodstock. And if you're not a geek, but want to know and have a say about the upcoming end of the world as we know it (and who wouldn't), then you should still definitely go. Posted by Mitch Howe at 11:53 AM. Mitchell - Where are you? It's Marty Kokol. I'm now in NYC permanently. 3/9/07. I'm a high school history teacher by trai...
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The Existential Whisk: November 2004
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Doings and Musings of Mitchell Howe. Monday, November 29, 2004. The Technology Squeeze: Truck Drivers. Not only is complete autonomy for ground vehicles unrealistic for large-scale deployment in the near term, but pushing for unmanned combat. Now that the Army is scrambling to better armor and escort its truckers, perhaps it’s time to consider alternatives to having a human driver in every cab; alternatives workable in the short term. Semi. But what about that lead vehicle? It might as well have a bulls-...
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The Existential Whisk: December 2005
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Doings and Musings of Mitchell Howe. Friday, December 23, 2005. X-Mas List Item #6: An Open, Fully-Supported E-book Reader. Pull up a chair and grab an eggnog, and I shall tell you the the haunting tale of the First E-book Migration. But being first type of media capable. Still It was morning in dot-com America. E-books were possible, so they had to be done. Ships under many flags disappeared over the horizon. They had names like Franklin. Manufacturers and publishers sported a ridiculous array of incomp...