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| Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com. |
| Optical inteference displays |
| 1:27:07 am mst / 23 December 2000 found by paul / filed in inventions / source Economist 26 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Iridigm Technology hopes to make flat screen displays using a novel optical interference technique -- the same phenomenon that createst the iridescent colors in butterfly wings. |
| Yet another contender in the rapidly developing "digital paper" market. (See this article for a profile of another one.) Some of these companies will undoubtedly make it big in the next 5 years -- the only problem for an investor is trying to decide which one(s). |
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| Faster with Fitaly |
| 3:47:12 am mst / 23 December 2000 found by diana / filed in handhelds / source MSNBC 28 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| The folks over at TextWare have designed a new software-based keyboard layout for PDAs (called Fitaly) that apparently allows for 50 error-free WPM with a bit of practice. |
| The design looks very elegant, totally optimized for the pecking method required for PDAs! I'm downloading the demo for my Palm now! |
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| Asteroid misses Earth "by a whisker" |
| 10:50:35 am mst / 23 December 2000 found by paul / filed in science / source BBC News 69 hits / 0 comments / 1 e-mail |
| An asteroid passed within 480,000 miles of the earth on Friday, surprising scientists. Although the distance is twice that of the distance betweeen the earth and the moon, it is considered a "near miss" by astronomical standards. Had is struck the Earth, it would have devastated the city of London, leaving a crater 3/4 of a mile across. |
| Don't those asteroids know that it's Christmas? |
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| Jingle Boobs |
| 1:02:47 pm mst / 23 December 2000 found by diana / filed in politics / source Ananova 100 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| A conservative member of the Scottish parliament stunned colleagues by e-mailing them Jingle Boobs, a Christmas card featuring "five topless women in stockings unwrapping presents while their breasts sway in time to to Max Bygraves's Christmas song, Jingle Bell Rock." An investigation will probably ensue. |
| Ho! Ho! Ho! |
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| Teacher Dares Students to Hack |
| 5:06:49 pm mst / 23 December 2000 found by diana / filed in education / source The Register 54 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| A high-school computer science teacher dared his students to hack into the internet filtering and security software on the school's computers. But when Aaron Lutes succeeded, he got a five-day suspension and locked up briefly by the local police for "unauthorized access to government data." |
| The high school teacher's claim that his dare was just a joke is quite a lesson for his students in taking personal responsibility! |
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| Ins and Outs of Web Advertising |
| 10:55:55 pm mst / 23 December 2000 found by diana / filed in business / source Forbes 96 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| As much as web advertising is lamented these days, the medium does allow marketers to track the success of their campaigns. This article charts the click-through rates most successful banner ad campaigns. |
| The results may just surprise you, as one web retailer has a 67% click-through rate! |
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