Friday, February 1, 2002 | Chris Gulker's WWW Journal | 20716 accesses

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Folding proteins: version 1.0, 2.0 Like folding laundry, it can be therapeutic, and goes faster if you have help Diversity and tolerance Are cornerstones of strong systems, and strong societies... Code Wed Think of the possibilites... Land of the free Home of the brave, circa 2001 Gutenberg's Revenge Digging through the rubble of Silicon Valley's dotcoms Friction is back Big corporations don't like 'frictionless capitalism' The Big Choke 'Nuclear winter' for statups? We've been there... Give me freedom or give me... CPRM? Louie, I think this is the beginning of a terrible relationship... Copy Right? So, why is the MPAA, once a champion of freedom of speech, trying to silence teenagers and university professors? Peer to Peer Finally, a use for the Internet... World's First Open Source Person? A personal declaration... Innovation How Apple does it... Is the Internet aware? The 'Planetary Computer' just might be... Pervasive Computing Some interesting gizmos, coming Real Soon Now Hard times in Silicon Valley We need to work on the 'suffer' thing... The Fix is in Could high tech fix Florida's ballot counting woes? Hacker Shakedown The FBI, 'bonez' and I: the continuing saga... Labor Day Honoring labor, American-style The Box and The Cube There's a place for cheesy, a place for elegant... Gravitas It's how you say 'Chops', in Latin Uncertain at any speed Groan. The NASDAQ. Again. Frantic My startup life, in a word. Disconnected It wasn't pretty... The wireless MP3 demo and BBQ A tale of innovation and barbecue in Silicon Valley Bust up Microsoft? Why bother? The end of the dot coms? Hardly. Startup failure is just business as usual... The Great Crash of Double-Ought The economy is like Windows: get used to it crashing a lot Work Slaving away in startup land We wuz hacked... The perils of a powerful , modern OS... in the hands of a newbie Immortal Machines Why we're all gonna need 'em The real Silicon Valley It's not real estate A RAIC's progress Whither the home supercomputer AOL buys Time Warner "When dinosaurs merge, you don't get mammals: you just get more dinosaur" A Millennial Column Your swami peers ahead 20 and 50 years The crypto jog Running, and thinking, slowly Print is dead! Kind of. Sorta... The peasants have no crypto And we're not interested in your cake, either... My favorite sites I just know I'm missing all the really good ones... The California Gold Rush Picks and shovels were the key in 1849. What's a cyberpick look like? "Give me encryption, or give me death!" In a networked world, strong encryption should be viewed as a basic human right Silicon matchmakers It's about relationships, it's about money... lots and lots of money Mickey's working the night shift Two-thirds of Californians have unconventional jobs Rushing from riches to rags The siren call of the startup... Jogging in Silicon Valley View the landscape, both external and internal, around gulker.com For richer and poorer Half of America's wealth is in the hands of a fifth the population... will the net make this worse? Startling prediction The Net will change things... On technological change and social disruption Morals and ethics in the information age Who wrote this column? What happens when your PC gets smarter than you Senator Feinstein, what were you thinking? When all else fails, blame the Internet The silicon axemakers Making tools means making wealth Las Vegas: Silicon fear and software loathing NAB '99: An old ghost slips into town Luther, Gutenberg and Melissa The down side of information technology The O Machine Alan Turing's Hypercomputer XML, a tale of tags Tag, you're it First Net Boy, have things changed since then...

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