Ambient Design's ArtRage wins "Think in Ink" $100K Prize

Ambient Design's ArtRage has won first-place and \$100K in a contest sponsored by Microsoft to boost the TabletPC. The product is a favorite among TabletPC users with any artistic ability at all (and thus, unfortunately, excluding me). I also think it's a pretty good way to boost the platform, a …

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Couple arrested in medical marijuana bust receive $30K apology

I would have said “only in Marin” if I still lived there, but a Kona couple has received \$30,000 in a wrongful arrest settlement for being busted for growing pot. They were held for 8 hours. Nice work if you can get it.

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Sciral Consistency

I have never registered a piece of shareware faster than I did this morning after trying out Sciral Consistency. This is a to-do manager for repetitive tasks that can occur within a range of days (for instance, you need to do the bills twice a month, but an Outlook repetitive …

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Touch Table -- Put Tablet XP On This!

This is something I'd love to see running Tablet XP: a table whose surface is a touch-screen display running at 1600 x 1200. via \<a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/11/24.html%23a8707" ">Scoble.

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What's wrong, Flipper, is Bud in trouble?

Reuters reports that a pod of dolphins protected swimmers from an attacking great white shark off the coast of New Zealand's North island:

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Nice story, but I’m not sure I believe it.

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Casey Chesnut Unjumps The Shark

Casey Chesnut, who’s my favorite Tablet PC programmer because he does all this stuff apparently without realizing that it’s supposed to be hard, has written a neural network based character recognizer for the Tablet PC ([via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Tech Blender]). He normalizes an ink stroke in x …

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Tablet PC Jumps The Shark

Time magazine today named the Intel Centrino mobile technology wireless surfboard as one of the Coolest Inventions of 2004…
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Lordy, lordy, lordy. When [this]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} counts as the coolest thing that done with a technology, we …

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Let the fools have their tartar sauce!

::: {.Section1} There’s an early Simpsons where Mr. Burns somehow comes to believe that Homer is a fellow predatory capitalist. When he asks Homer how to improve the working environment, Homer says that he’d like the fish sticks in the cafeteria to come with more tartar sauce. Burns marvels …

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Language Oriented Programming

Via \[[Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog](http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/377)\] I found JetBrain’s Sergey Dimitriev’s **[very important]{style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"}** whitepaper on "[Language Oriented Programming: The Next Programming Paradigm](http://www.onboard.jetbrains.com/articles/04/10/lop/)" This is the best brief explanation I’ve …
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