Tracking the San Diego Fires on Google Maps

KPBS in San Diego has created a great tracker for the San Diego fires using Google Maps. It's very impressive, and for those of us who are on the other side of the country it's much easier way of seeing what's really going on than listening to the lame, repetitive coverage on cable news. The …

SciVee: YouTube for Science

The San Diego Supercomputing Center and PLoS have created SciVee, a YouTube-like website for scientific presentations. It seems like a potentially great vehicle for disseminating and promoting research. Right now the content is mostly in bio, but I would love to see more CS up there. It would be great, for example, if the major …

Hiding email addresses from spammers

The Center for Democracy and Technology just published this report showing that obsuring your email address in web pages by HTML-encoding the characters as ASCII character codes effectively reduces spam. Here is a little CGI script that will make an encoded mailto link, that can be cut and pasted into a web page.

Second Superpower Redux

Kevin Marks rebuts Orlowski's critique of the "Second Superpower" essay.

The Second Superpower isn’t.

I was going to post a critique of James F. Moore's superhype-techno-blather essay The Second Superpower, but Andrew Orlowski at The Register beat me to it, adding information that I didn't know, namely that the phrase in question originally referred to the global anti-war movement. Now Moore, with some help from Dave Winer, a weblog …