‘In some ways, it is like the very ubiquity of technology has led us back to a world where socially normative gender roles take hold all over again’.

‘You’ll be surprised how much diversity, hope and optimism there was, back when our technical aesthetics were completely enslaved to the 1970s.’

‘SHRDLU is a program for understanding natural language, written [at MIT] in 1968-70.’

‘For many of us, the computer we work with during the day is the same one we relax with in the evening. We end up not being able to concentrate as well as we could when we’re working and not really being able to switch off when the work’s over.’

‘A visual study of computer GUI in cinema.’ This is really very good.

‘The failure to distinguish between the underlying skills and the particular programs means that many children will grow up with inflexible, rote-style learning that is exactly the opposite of what is needed in a digital society.’

‘Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service.’ Seems like it's not quite ready yet, though.

‘The fallacy that data can be forensically recovered using an electron microscope or related means needs to be put to rest.’

Funny, but true.

Useful summary of the current state of the market.

‘The best of the worst in software engineering.’

Open-source EC2.

'Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?' A good idea.

He argues that it doesn't.

Very smart.

Q&A-style interview on the Freakonomics blog.

A brand new PC with Vista battles a twenty-year-old Mac II to see who can boot up and open a Word document faster.

An interesting computer case: a stuffed dead beaver.

‘These twenty video lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman are a complete presentation of the course, given in July 1986 for Hewlett-Packard employees.’

The full book and its supporting materials.

What WUXGA etc. really mean.

Hilarious spoof video.

4-bit adder made from water-operated logic gates.

Like a plotter for walls.

Never mind Y2K: the shuttle computers ‘were never envisioned to fly through a year-end changeover’.

Beautiful portable computers inspired by suzuribako (Japanese writing boxes)

Multi-touch screens. Think Minority Report-style computing.

Very cheap and thin clients.