Tag: science & technology
All the articles with the tag "science & technology".
Discovery
Some folks claim to have found a Bosnian stairs-like pyramid , about 12,000 years old. Photos of the research here . Scientific sleuth cracks code to $54,000 treasure Ants in the Amazon rain forest la…
The Long Now's Orrery
I've been meaning to post about this for a while, but finally got around to it after reading at Boing Boing that the Long Now project unveiled their prototype, the Orrery clock . Jacob Appelbaum has s…
Nifty Inventions
This seems well done: The LifeStraw can give a person clean water for a year and uses no energy except suction from the user. It filters up to 15 microns and also treats water with iodine impregnated …
Science links
I saw some of these in Peru, interesting that they are just now starting to figure them out - Cryptic string-based communication system used by ancient Incan administrators may at last be unravelling …
Site htaccess changes
I've finally gotten around to messing with my htaccess file and added the following: # Error pages ErrorDocument 404 /404.php # Redirect Redirect /blog/blog.html http://www.chrisnelson.ca/ Redirect /b…
MP3 on the cheap
I was curious about getting a Super Tangent (Apple Shuffle rip-off) as an el cheapo USB mp3 player. But no one seemed to be selling them on eBay anymore. In the search for the product under a differen…
LASIK touchup
(All photos for this entry are posted here ) Friday afternoon I had my right eye touched up with Wavefront LASIK . I had previously had both eyes done last Oct. While my left eye was better than 20/20…
History, exploration, and geeks.
Great urban exploration site: Russian photos and text of abandoned soviet infrastructure Long-Lost Da Vinci Masterpiece Found Behind Palazzo Walls "A high-tech art sleuth finds a hollow space behind a…
Oil, energy and enviro info
Most of these are older links, but I just haven't had the time to post them. In case you missed it: A White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has …
Misc techy, DRM
I've been recording some shows from This American Life. Why? Well, I seem to always forget to tune in on a Sunday, and streaming is just a pain in the ass. When I'm not using the audio on my computer,…