Sharp's mini-laptop.

The Gadgeteer review of the Linux-based Sharp C700 PDA, which with its 640×480 screen that swivels around to reveal a tiny keyboard, looks a little like a mini-laptop. It'd be nice to see a Pocket PC like this, especially since the C700 is only sold in Japan, only available in the US through Dynamism.com.
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[Gizmodo]

this is cool, I'd love to have one….

Learning to Design Web Pages with Style. A review of Eric Meyer's new CSS book. [Linux Journal]

and to think that i was just saying that I need a new css book.

Taking Our Lives Online.

People with Personal Websites

“According to a December 2002 survey of 501 adults in the US, conducted by the University of Maryland and Rockbridge Associates, 21% of US consumers have their own personal website, or have a family member with his/her own site. Additionally, 13% say they own or a family member owns a domain name or web address for a hobby or personal interest….

The study determined that 77% of US adults connect to the internet through a regular phone line while 20% are making high-speed connections. Of the broadband subscribers, 12% use a cable modem and 8% are using digital subscriber line (DSL). This is also the recently-publicized study which revealed that US employees with net access at both home and work spend an average of 5.9 hours per week at home online for work purposes and an average of 3.7 hours per week online at work for personal interests.” [eMarketer Daily]

That's a pretty small sample, but if the statistics hold up when scaled, it would show that people are truly creating their own content, rather than just sitting back and letting the internet become a one-way (corporate) medium. And 77% of them are publishing via a dial-up connection, so they don't need broadband to do it. I have to think that blogs will only increase those numbers, as will photoblogging for families.

Of course, they may also be getting domain names in order to maintain a stable email address. Will Cox pointed me to a notice that Comcast will maintain AT&T Broadband email accounts through 2004 because so many customers complained about having to change their address yet again. I'm glad they're listening, a nice change in this industry.

[The Shifted Librarian]

tracking, tracking, tracking, oops….

king of stonehenge. The King of Stonehenge found in a 4,000-year-old grave near Stonehenge may have been from Switzerland and involved in its construction. It is the richest Bronze Age burial found in Britain “off the scale”. …it is fascinating to think that someone from abroad ‰?? probably modern day Switzerland ‰?? could well have played an important part in the construction of Britain‰??s most famous archaeological site.‰?ÿ [MetaFilter]

wow, this looks nifty, the cultural curiousity surrounding things like stonehenge is quite interesting to see, and when information comes out that informs it, we can watch the waves of acceptance and dismissal.

Scientists of Very Small Draw Disciplines Together. Nanotechnology, biotechnology, electronics and brain research are converging into a field of science vital to the nation's security. By Barnaby J. Feder. [New York Times: Technology]

oh my, how much do you need, here, we'll just cancel the writing program, ot education, oh, liberal arts has lots of money, take your pick, one of your labs only constitutes the cost of hiring 3 or 4 professors, sustaining it is less sure, and you will get grants, sure, and then you will leave, more or less ignoring the investment made to get a whole new investment. .