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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • Technolotics #33 – Mouth Words

    [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/33_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 33 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes The Death of Net Neutrality Article by Daniel Berninger on GigaOM website. Argues that net neutrality refers to “the uses of the Internet not the quality of access”. Already a large number of classes of service available from the telcos, you pay for the performance and capacity of your Read more

  • Technolotics #32 – Pathological Scrupulosity

    [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/32_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 32 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Digg hits a gas main Social bookmarking phenomena Digg is in trouble this week, after being accused of the blogosphere’s greatest sin – censorship Slashdot have posted a story – in Taco’s mangled grammer ‘submitted so numerous that I had little choice but to post’ – accusing dig of Read more

  • Aught6

    On the 13th of April some sort of centenary chuffed sun agog at children scheming Beckett in squares and beatnik woods a starlet in black stockings and god nude below a tutu we’re all jogging to happenings rampant tropes of actors on a trail full up with vitamins and mislaid candelabras where up on his Read more

  • Open educational models

    Someone needs to build a decent open source 3d brain model in shockwave, VRML or a stand alone OpenGL application (not pseudo 3d quicktime). As far as I can see, none exists. Believe me, when you’re trying to understand functional neuroanatomy, such a thing could not be more useful. This is the sort of thing Read more

  • Down the Tube

    Didn’t notice this till now, and apparently Michael Arrington hadn’t noticed it either in his recent coverage of video sharing sites. YouTube has (presumably under pressure from copyright paranoid’s in hollywood limited videos to ten minutes in length. Way to kill the future of your site guys. Seriously, this is a moronic move – they Read more

  • Technolotics #31 – Ringing Up Osama

    [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/31_technolotics_dialup.mp3] Listen: Episode 31 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Mac BootCamp Intel macs now officially run Windows http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ Macs get mainstream – All silicon valley geeks must have PowerBooks (except me) How will OSX cope with the competition – Who will reboot? The hardcore will stay for the unix backend But Mac enthusiasts already talking about a no-windows-booting Read more