March, 2009

  1. Human Enhancement & Nanotechnology Conference – Day 2

    NOTE: These are essentially my notes taken live during the HEN conference. Note these contain numerous spelling errors and probably some minor errors due to richness of a lot of the presentations. This is far from an accurate transcript of any given presentation. Video and slides from presenters will be available shortly at the conference…

  2. Human Enhancement & Nanotechnology Conference – Day 1

    NOTE: These are essentially my notes taken live during the HEN conference. Note these contain numerous spelling errors and probably some minor errors due to richness of a lot of the presentations. This is far from an accurate transcript of any given presentation. Video and slides from presenters will be available shortly at the conference…

  3. WoW Add-On Developers Go All John Galt

    Some developers of add-ons for World of Warcraft were so angered by Blizzard’s new policy essentially forbidding the creation of add-ons that are commercial or feature in-game donation buttons that they have pulled their add-ons from public distribution. This includes some very popular add-ons, such as Outfitter, QuestHelper, and Group Calendar. John Stephen, the developer…

  4. Murders of Albino Children in Burundi

    Another disturbing story about the murder of albinos, this time in Burundi where police believe the albinos are murdered so their body parts can be smuggled into Tanzania where they are apparently used as part of religious/medical rituals, An eight-year-old albino boy in Burundi was murdered and dismembered, an official said Monday, the latest victim…

  5. Blizzard to Offer Authenticator App on Mobile Devices

    Last year I mentioned Blizzard’s physical token authenticator, which was an effort to crack down on theft of World of Warcraft accounts. I actually ended up ordering one of these, but never actually enabled it because it would be another device I need to keep track of and I’d probably lose it the day after…

  6. NYT Exec Throws Fit Over Placement in Google Searches

    Advertising Age has a great example of the complete and utter incompetence many newspaper executives still have when it comes to the web. Then in January, Martin Nisenholtz, New York Times Co. senior VP-digital operations, got up at the annual Online Publishers Association summit in Florida, an event closed to the press, to blast both…

  7. DokuWiki Leaflet

    Andreas Gohr has put together a PDF version of a DokuWiki pamphlet that does a nice job of succinctly explaining the advantages of his open source Wiki software. Since its CC licensed, I’ve uploaded a copyhere so I can have it to print out and distribute at some cons I’m planning to attend this summer.