by Laura Domela
Fresh Bytes is my daily roundup of of interesting factoids and techy tidbits.
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"Three scientists at UC San Diego have rigorously estimated the annual amount of business-related information processed by the world's computer servers in terms that Guttenberg and Galileo would have appreciated: the digital equivalent of a 5.6-billion-mile-high stack of books from Earth to Neptune and back to Earth, repeated about 20…
What could you do with just one kilobyte?
The JS1K competition challenges developers to write JavaScript demo with a maximum size of 1024 bytes that runs in a web browser (which may include HTML5). This year's theme was the classic Apple II game Oregon Trail.1 KB isn't a lot of memory...but check out the results for yourself --…
James Gleick’s History of Information – a book review
NY Times Book review of James Gleick's The Information. Synopsys from the Publisher: The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long-misunderstood talking drums of…
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