DrPsycho writes: "Saw this linked on memepool and it just blew me away. The Library of Congress website has an exhibition section which features the works of Russian photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944). Yeah yeah. Big deal, you say... until you realize his original B&W glass-plate negatives were created using a clever RGB filter system which he used almost 100 years ago. A little modern "digichromatography" ... reapplication of the filtered colours and combining them into a composite colour image... allows for stunning full colour reproductions! Not bad, considering by how long it predates the release of Kodachrome colour slide film."

A reader writes "This is Rick Lehrbaum's "traditional" report on "all things Linux" at the Embedded Systems Conference which took place during the week of April 9, 2001 in San Francisco, California. Lehrbaum briefly describes many of the Embedded Linux oriented exhibits, takes us on a photo tour of some cool Embedded Linux based devices that were being shown off, and offers his assessment of the current state of the Embedded Linux industry. There's even a "best of show award" for the "geekiest demo" at ESC! Full report is on Linuxdevices.com"

SEWilco has comprehensive report from the Spring Comdex show in Chicago. Good listing - show was smaller, but I think there was still some good exhibits put on there. Click thru to read more- you can also read the final report that Newsforge has.

WhyCause writes: "The MIT "shrine to clever pranks" has closed it's doors due to space concerns. I thought this development particularly pertinent after the review of "The Hacker Ethic." You can read more about it here." This is a real shame -- it was on my list to visit the next time I traveled to Boston. There are still some great online resources detailing MIT pranks, though, and the exhibits aren't being thrown out, but their future home is uncertain.

Jake_Man writes: "A rather intelligent young lady had her science fair project regarding racial preferences amongst adults and children yanked after being on display for an hour. Not only is this building tremendous confidence and self esteem in a young lady interested in the scientific field, it's just more of the "if we don't talk about it, it'll go away" mentality to which our nation's school children are subjected everyday. What a great way to help children learn to think for themselves ..."

brak writes: "Weird sea creature is found that exhibits Photonic abilities. Talking about its spine, researchers said... "The precise arrangement of the cylinders maximised reflectance around a narrow wave bandwidth, giving rise to the red colour." The whole article can be found at the BBC "

In Take 1 of this two-part series, I described some of the current technology in wearable computing as seen at ISWC 2000, this year's just-finished iteration of the International Symposium on Wearable Computers, from head-mounted displays to intelligent jackets. In this round, a little more speculation about where the future of wearability lies, with a peek in the door at some of the things being done in top university labs. What forces will shape the future of wearable computing? Hint: GeForce 2's are still hard to carry, and there's never enough power.

Quantax asks: "I have an Osborn 'luggable' computer which I need to get rid of due to space considerations. However, I consider this much too valuable to be tossed in the trash. Are there any 'Computer Museums' or exhibits located in the NYC area that I could give this to? I would consider shipping it out of the area if the place really wanted it." Aside from NYC, are there any other such museums in the U.S. and around the world?

FModnar writes: "As described in this review on DVDfile.com, another DVD player has been found that exhibits the same menus as the Apex DVD player did a few months ago. Some of the 'hidden' features include the ability to turn off region coding and Macrovision." Sounds like this is a higher-quality player, too. Since both of the Apexes I bought failed within weeks and had to be returned, I certainly hope so. If enough players are region friendly, "chipping" may never catch on much in America.

It's been a week now since ApacheCon 2000 ended. There's been some discussion over the events, with the release of Apache 2.0a being the main topic of conversation. But AC2K was more than just the venue that 2.0a was announced. It was an important and noteworthy conference in it's own right. If you're curious about what happened at AC2K, read on.

Cacl, a PhD student at University of Michigan in their School of Information Divison has written a feature addressing the concerns and problems of preserving digital information. This is an area of study of his - and interesting to read about.

Disney's eerie model of the community of the future -- abandoned for decades in a darkened Tomorrowland tunnel -- might well be the perfect locus for the tragic view of technology.

Thanks to the many geeks and nerds who answered my SOS the other day about how to use Orlando as a way to write about technology and the future. One of the many standout e-mails was from a genuine Disney Imagineer, with whom I had a clandestine and revealing meeting last night on a deserted EPCOT bench. This was only one of several mystical and powerful encounters with pilgrims flocking to the world's new techno-mecca. Next: Disney's Carousel of Progress and the lost model of his dream city of tomorrow.

Duncan Lawie recently reviewed Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination. This time around, he's taken a look at Kim Stanley Robinson's Antarctica. Click below to read more.

ZDNet reports that David Bowie is now hosting the controversial art exhibition "Sensation" on his website. If you've been in a cave for the last week, this is the British exhibition that is annoying the hell out of NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani. He has said he will pull funding to the Brooklyn Museum, and even Sen. Bob Smith (R-NH) is making political hay in Washington.

Some may recall the NEA flap started in 1989 by a Mapplethorpe photo exhibit (for a recap, try the book Culture Wars ). The threat of censorship has loomed over publicly-funded galleries and artists ever since. The news behind the news is that the internet will now allow a curious country to see the artwork that our government is telling us is evil; ten years ago, all the newspapers could print were lurid descriptions by the would-be censors. Will this make a difference?

Matthew Priestley has taken a break from slaving for the man to write us a piece where he takes on the convential wisdom that Security through Obscurity isn't secure at all, and tries to argue that sometimes it is. Click the link below to read it. Lots of interesting stuff and some good examples. Its worth a read.

NIck Porcino writes "Warp drive one step closer to reality! From the abstract: A spacetime is presented for which the total negative mass needed is only the order of grams, accompanied by a negligible amoung of positive energy. This constitutes a reduction of the absolute value of the energy by 65 orders of magnitude. The new geometry satisfies the quantum inequality concerning WEC [Weak Energy Condition] violations and exhibits the same advantages as the original Alcubierre spacetime. Read it here. The two big problems to be resolved are 1) how do you get an object inside a warp bubble? 2) What happens to the object when the warp bubble collapses? "

The folks over at COMDEX have sent me a release, (click below to read it) regarding the pricing for LUGs at COMDEX/Linux Global Summit. Long story short: Cheaper. We like cheap.

Chris Farris writes "The Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts, in cooperation with USENIX and Linux International, is pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Atlanta Linux Showcase. The Atlanta Linux Showcase will be held at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta on October 12-16 1999. Interested exhibitors should contact exhibits@linuxshowcase.org More details will be coming via our website soon. " If its anything like last years-- hell who am I kidding? I ate half a tin of Penguin Mints. I don't remember anything except the head ache and dave and nate drinking 151.

Well, the nice folks over at LWCE have sent us a bunch of free Exhibits-Only badges for LinuxWorldExpo (which Linux-HW has made possible for Rob and I go to)-that's the one in San Jose, March 2-4, for the Expo. Again-note this is only an Exhibits pass-so don't try and claim more then that, or Rob'll show you his chest. Eck. Anyway, I'll ship these out to the first fifty people to send me a stamp and an adhesive label with their name and address on it. Click below to get the address-and we hope to see you there.