Tor: An anonymous Internet communication system
If you live in a totalitarian society – like most of do 😉 consider joining the Tor network. Supported by EFF (Electonic Frontier Foundation).
Category: Kim Blog (English)
Personal blog. Thoughts, conspiracies with a danish twist etc.
iriver Global Home – portable digital devices on steriods
When it comes to features in portable digitial devices, iriver runs circles around Apple. iriver even have the audacity to market some of their new products using a picture of an attractive lady eating an apple – yummy 😀
Reporters sans frontières – Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents
RSF has published a handbook for bloggers – eg. indivduals that publish to the web – like yours truly. In many countries with totalitarian regimes, bloggers are the only real journalists.
This is a very useful guide…Including detailed instructions on how to publish to the Internet annonymously – e.g. using proxies. Big thumbs up to RSF.
Reporters sans frontières – WSIS
The 15 enemies of the Internet and other countries to watch
Reporters sans frontières – Reporters witout Borders – is the journalistic free-speech equivalent of Medicins sans Frontièrs.
RSF has just released a list of the countries that could be consideres the “enemies” of the Internet, as well as a list of countries “to watch”.
The Aperture – all-in-one post-production tool for photographers
Apperture looks like an incredibly powerful piece of software for post production of still-images. Aperture targets professional photographers, who want to work directly with RAW formats.
German Courses | Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle offers some great and, best of all, free German language courses.
I ‘ve just downloaded and installed Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 2. So far it looks like it is working quite well.
Get it here:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
The only improvement I’ve noticed so far, is that the RSS subscription icon has been moved to the right of the address bar. This is actually quite a useful improvement, since it makes it easier to see when a site has a feed that you can subscribe to.
PocketMac. PocketPC – Not only for Windows anymore
Using the PocketMac application you can sync your PocketPC and your Mac. So all you switchers can dust off your PocketPC device, while we’re waiting for Steve to bring back the Newton – or something even cooler.
Unfortunately there are major problems with foreign character sets, like my native language, Danish.
An interview with William Gibson (by Dan Josefsson)
Great interview with William Gibson from 1994, where he gives his early take on the Internet.
Here’s a quote, regarding the use of computers in the ghetto:
No, they have no access to computers. I was watching CNN during the riots of Los Angeles a couple of years ago and they were showing video footage of a mob looting a Radio Shack. Running out of the Radio Shack was hi-fis, video cameras and everything they could pick up. But the Radio Shack was right next to a Macintosh dealership which had powerbooks in the window. And it was untouched. So here these incredible valuable portable very, very powerful computers was sitting untouched behind an unbroken shop-window while the poor people steal Sony Walkmans. I felt that was so sad, and so indicative of our real problem.
BBC NEWS | Health | Doctors urge research on HIV man
This could be the breakthrough we’ve been looking for. I’ve heard earlier reports of some African prostitutes that seemed to be imune. According to the BBC article this is anecdotal.