Tag: World Wide Web

Gadget blogs

Today’s CBC web column… I love gadgets. I wrote my last novel on a gadget, my Pocket PC cell phone, using a fold-out wireless keyboard. The only thing that keeps me from drowning in gadgets is that I can’t afford them all. But I can do the next best thing, and read about them on …

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Memory? We don’t need no stinkin’ memory!

I’ve occasionally referred to my Pocket PC and, by extension, the Internet, as “my other brain.” Turns out I’m not alone: Almost without noticing it, we’ve outsourced important peripheral brain functions to the silicon around us. And frankly, I kind of like it.Yeah, me too.

Weather on the Web

Here’s this week’s CBC Web column… Audio version here. ***** The weather is perennially fascinating. We check the forecast first thing in the morning. We check the weather in cities we might be visiting on business or vacation. And northerners heading south for a bit of sun pay particular attention to the hurricane forecasts. Once …

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"You swollen-headed political dwarf, such a provocation will be regarded as a declaration of war!"

Behold the North Korean Random Insult Generator.

Guess who’s one of the new bloggers for Futurismic

Why, that would be me, thanks. What is Futurismic? I’ll let them answer that: Futurismic is a website for people interested in the future and the effects of science and technology on the present. Futurismic comes in three parts: the blog section consists of short, well-written, opinionated introductions to content that exists elsewhere on the …

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Surfer, know thyself

This week’s CBC web column… Download an audio version. **** The forecourt of the ancient Greek temple of Apollo at Delphi bore the inscription “Know thyself.” These days, we find out about ourselves the same way we find out about everything else: we go on the Internet. For example, in recent weeks I’ve learned where …

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The real health-care crisis…

…”Internet-Induced Hypochondria.”

Return of the popular search list: spider goats still rule!

I haven’t done this for a while: here are the top 15 searches among the last 4,000 visitors to edwardwillett.com, with links to the pages on my site they have led people to…and, yes, even though it’s been weeks since I posted such a list, spider goats continue to rule the roost! spider goatsspider goattime …

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Maps on the Web

This week’s CBC Web column… Download an audio version. *** Jokes about how hard it is to fold a highway map use to be a staple of slice-of-life comedians. Well, highway maps are probably just as hard to fold as they ever were—but you don’t have to fold them, or even use them, if you …

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World-wide wikis

Today’s CBC Web column… ******* Once upon a time, a computer programmer named Ward Cunningham visited Honolulu, where a Honolulu International Airport counter employee told him to take the a particular shuttle bus line between terminals, nicknamed the “WikiWiki” line: wiki is a Hawaiian-language word for “fast.” I don’t know whether Cunningham took the WikiWiki …

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CBC moves Moose Jaw to Alberta!

From a CBC.ca arts story this morning (here’s the link, but I would suspect this will be corrected soon, which is why I’ve appended the screen shot below)*: Vancouver writer Ivan E. Coyote, Moose Jaw, Alta.-based poet Daniel Scott Tysdal and Victoria’s Bill Gaston have won ReLit awards. Moose Jaw, Alta.? The whole town up …

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My dad always said I could be whatever I wanted to be…

…and that’s especially true of the Internet, where a false persona is only a few mouse clicks away. Witness this slide show of real people and the avatars they use in online games. I don’t know what it says about me, but I’m more uncomfortable being anonymous online than I am being myself. I even …

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