Ted Roche’s weblog

Dan Gillmor’s eJournal: How the Mac and AT&T Breakup Ultimately Converged. “They were seemingly unconnected events, two decades ago this month: the launch of the Apple Macintosh computer and the formal breakup of communications giant AT&T. As it turned out, they were Big Bangs in universes that have ended up converging — computing and communications [...]

Dan Gillmor’s eJournal blogs Fabulous Mars Images. “The Mars photos from the Spirit rover are remarkable. It’s wonderful to see humanity exploring the cosmos again….”
I’ll second that. There’s an infinitesimally small chance that the human race will colonize other worlds before we manage to exterminate ourselves. I think that, despite mankind’s many shortcomings, we’re a [...]