Archive for June 23rd, 2006

I finally saw another Mac kernel panic.

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Some of you know my laptop kernal panics very frequently. I hadn’t seen another computer do that until Friday. I hadn’t used my desktop machine for a few minutes when it suddenly started scrolling white text up the screen. I watched it for a little while before rebooting it. Gorgeous!

BumpTop 3D Desktop for Computers

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

When I read the post about this 3D desktop for computers on Newslib, a discussion list for news librarians, I thought at first it had to be a joke. It doesn’t appear to be. BumpTop really seems to be an attempt at bringing the 3D world to our flat computer desktops. It offers functionality like [...]

WetPaint: A New Wiki Platform with WYSIWYG Editing

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Garrett brought WetPaint, a new hosted WYSIWYG wiki platform, to my attention via an item on C|Net. It looks like people can edit, e-mail, and comment on wiki pages. There are keyword tag clouds. Moderators can lock pages they don’t want just anyone to edit. For example, the Lego front page is locked, but the [...]


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