Monthly Archives: February 2008

Vidoop, the military, and national ID cards

February 20, 2008 – 10:37 pm

Marshall Kirkpatrick’s claim that Vidoop is “a company made up largely of engineers with military backgrounds” makes for a great thriller plot, especially in the context of his National ID discussion over at ReadWriteWeb. That description, however, doesn’t reflect the Vidoop that I know. One of our developers was a civilian researcher at the Naval [...]

By Scott Blomquist | Posted in OpenID, OpenID Concerns | Comments (2)

Scientists and engineers

February 18, 2008 – 2:59 pm

I have vast amounts of respect for scientists and what they do. They have built an industry that pays them to do fun things like think up new things and argue about the futures of existing things. Interestingly, though, their industry insulates them from some of the pressures that cause non-scientists to do imperfect things [...]

By Scott Blomquist | Posted in Technology | Comments (0)

Favorite TV genre?

February 3, 2008 – 10:35 pm

I’m sure I should be embarrassed to admit this, but when it comes to 21st century staple TV genres, my hands-down favorite is what I like to call “The Evil Psychology Experiment” sub-genre of reality TV. I was just thinking back through my list of favorites, and was going to claim that “The Joe Schmo [...]

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