San Francisco's Museum
of Modern Art brings to us a
fascinating interactive look at fifteen
works of modern art, complete with
artists' biographies, critiques by
historians and poets, and QuickTime
movies of the artists themselves.
Tired of seeing that X10 pop-up ad everytime you want to read a New York Times article? If you want it to go away for 30 days, and don't feel like turning off javascript, X10 will be more than happy to help.
Google
has introduced a new search engine for images.
A surprisingly useful addition!
A corporate online privacy auditor gives a brief
but eye-opening interview to U.S. News & World Report.
The Los
Angeles Times reports on Cyc,
an artificial intelligence system
under development by Cycorp,
Inc for the last 17 years, that will
finally be making its debut later this summer.
United States Treasury Secretary Paul
O'Neill is calling for radical revisions
to Social Security and championing a revision of the
US tax code that would eliminate taxes
on corporations, and apparently the
White House is behind him. More detail
can be found here
and a transcript of the interview
A recording-industry professional presents a
dissection of long-term record sales figures and
comes up with some very interesting conclusions.
(Data is also made available for those who want to
do their own (or further) analysis.)
Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) has released
a report that includes internal oil company
documents that raise serious questions about
whether recent gasoline price hikes are a result
of deliberate anti-competitive practices on the
part of the oil companies.
A Java enabled toaster that burns the day's forecast onto your morning toast.