Why I don't have comments
Judging from the response to my last post, some of my readers are itching to find a comment field on my posts from now on. I can't do that for you, alas, and I thought I'd tell you why. — I think c...
Cringingly blurry pics reveal Microsoft's "iPod killer"?
An anonymous tipster sent us a bunch of pictures he shot last night from the outside of the Saturn Cafe in Santa Cruz. While we don't normally toss up random pics we get in the tip jar, this guy clai...
Hideous company sends Boing Boing a pre-emptive nastygram
(Click thumbnail for enlargement.) I just opened a letter sent to Boing Boing from some fools at Baker & McKenzie LLP in London. — The letter states that their client, Infront Sports & Media, "anti...
Follow-up on PDF legal issues
There have been a ton of really great comments and questions today in relation to the news that we are going to have to pull our PDF and XPS publish support out of Office 2007. We will still offer th...
Samsung Q1 in the buff!
Brace yourselves, because this isn't pretty. It's one thing to have an unboxing video of the Samsung Q1, but viewing the UMPC stark naked is a whole 'nother matter. In fact, just to keep it clean fo...
Nokia turns cellphones into webservers
Nokia has ported the Apache webserver to Symbian, in order to enable mobile phones to serve content on the World Wide Web. Many mobile phones today have more processing power than early Internet serv...
How Much Should a Design Cost?
Every week, I get emails from potential clients who all want to know one thing: How much for a design? — Nine times out of ten, my answer causes them to run for the hills. Scary thing is, based on ...
HP cuts back on telecommuting
SOME KEY WORKERS WILL HAVE TO COME TO OFFICE OR FIND NEW JOBS — Hewlett-Packard, the Silicon Valley company known for pioneering flexible work arrangements four decades ago, is canceling telecommuti...
Cease and Desist defining Web 2.0
Jeff Clavier and Paul Kedrosky note that the chmod 777 definition of 'web 2.0' is coming back into fashion. As Jeff nicely put it: … The chmod 777 meme got picked up recently by Tim Bray, who pointed...