Heads and tales: Dixie and the geek
By Wade Kwon
Red blogs vs. blue blogs: Our pal Taylor Bright has a story on political blogs based in 'Bama. Our savvy readers already have their faves, but you gotta bring the geezers up to speed. At least Wade on Birmingham is apolitical — apolitical, asexual, ahysterical …
• Blogs join partisan fray on state political scene [Huntsville Times]
You must remember this …: A physics professor at Alabama has published a paper detailing the workings of a new type of memory chip. “Unlike the DRAM used in today’s computers, MRAM would be non-volatile, so work would not be lost if the power failed. MRAM also would not require the power-draining boot-up process of DRAM.” And it will also know why humans cry. Because they can’t figure out their digital cameras.
• Computer memory advances create buzz [Tuscaloosa News]
Punch ALT-CTRL-%-J for outside line: A Birmingham-based phone company is expanding into a second company to handle VoIP. More and more people are using the Internet to make their calls. It reminds us of the telecom boom of the early '90s, the one that gave us WorldCom. Uh, oh.
• New phone company to tap Internet [Birmingham News]
Wiki cool: A Huntsville native is the founder of Wikipedia, the encyclopedia so simple even you can write and edit it. Addictive stuff — for instance, did you know Birmingham has 11 sister cities?
• Alabamian is brain behind Wikipedia [Birmingham News]
Dixiepædia Hicktannica: Historians across the state are creating an online Encyclopedia of Alabama, to launch in 2007. Noted historian Wayne Flint is editor-in-chief for the project. Finally, we’ll settle the debate over who was the best governor, Wager Swayne or Chauncey Sparks.
• Encyclopedia of Alabama to be online [Montgomery Advertiser]
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