No subject is beyond the philosophical investigations of Erik Davis, whose new collection of essays, ‘Nomad Codes,’ fuses tech ideas with mystical impulses and philosophy.
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Mountain View’s Computer History Museum is exhibiting a recreation of the granddaddy of all modern computers.This 15-ton mechanical contraption invented by English mathematician Charles Babbage used sequential control, branching, and looping—ideas that would take decades to be integrated into more modern machines.
City Manager Debra Figone is urging City Council to accept the 2010 COPS Hiring Program Grant, amounting to $7,187,984. If the city accepts the program, sixteen full time police officers who faced layoffs may be spared, at least for another four years.
It hasn’t even been officially announced yet, but Google’s rumored purchase of Groupon for $5-6 billion is already coming under fire from observers. It raises questions about Google’s relationship with Facebook and can add fuel to the fire as the search engine giant faces a growing number of anti-trust investigations.
Facebook is getting big, very big, and its current digs in Palo Alto may be a little too small for it. So Facebook is looking for a new home, and it may not be in Palo Alto, or even Santa Clara County for that matter. One possible new home is the Oracle campus in Menlo Park.
Congress’s failure to extend unemployment benefits is already putting a strain on local food banks, with Christmas right around the corner. The demand for services has shot up 70 percent in the last year alone, and it is expected to get much higher as more people lose their unemployment benefits this month.
Santa Clara County is handing out Get Out of Jail Free cards this month to anyone with a misdemeanor warrant for a nonviolent offense or a traffic violation. Until the end of the year, people with warrants against them for nonviolent crimes can simply walk into the local police station, get their citation, and schedule a new court date.
Was Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, a homosexual? This controversy ignites the action in the new politically pointed farce Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party, now running at City Lights Theater Company.
Gulf seafood event at Mayfield Café and Village Pub; Duckhorn wine tasting at San Jose’s Unwined wine bar; wine and chocolate pairing at Enoteca La Storia in Los Gatos; wine tasting weekend at summit wineries; LB Steak Sunday night prime rib dinners; walk with the winemaker at Cooper Garrod Estate Cellars.
Responding to public demands, the SJPD has agreed to provide crime prevention specialists to neighborhoods in West San Jose.Crime specialists were cut back from certain neighborhood, even though crime was on the rise. Part of the problem that the residents face is that so many of the crimes go unreported. A recent survey found that two-thirds of the residents did not report crimes that they knew about.
