Tag: science & technology
All the articles with the tag "science & technology".
Heavy curtains
Woke up to the new ball park down town setting off fireworks. Uhg. I hope that isn't a regular thing. The lights on the thing have already ruined my poor view... I can only guess that the people in th…
Spam
We all love it. I have been giving SpamBayes a try (open source Outlook plugin). It took about 3 days to get it trained (helps if you have folders of good and bad messages for it to start out with), b…
Fun fun!
The Web Hosting company I was using for this site (Endore.net) went out of business. They didn't give any warning and shut down their servers on Thursday night. Luckly, I had backups of everything. I …
Links
Biggest! Prime! Ever! Someone finally realizes what a problem Diebold is . More here . Interesting graphics design site. I had seen stuff about this guy before, but Wired just did a full story on him …
Links
Nanotubes . I find the whole thing rather interesting as I am currently reading Engines of Creation . Think I will pass on the green onions . Cool sign project . Privacy watch . Interesting green retr…
Early days of computers
I love this stuff (thought cryptonomicon was a great book), so this was an interesting read . Russia - "if they can do it, so can we !"
The Great Library of Amazonia
This is a great read. As I was telling Jimmy, if I ever had fat stacks of cash, this would be an amazing project. The potential is quite unbelievable.
DRM
Lesson number 85,923 on why DMCA is bad. A computer science grad student at Princeton wrote a report showing the CD DRM (digital rights management, in other words, you can not backup or rip the CD to …
Spiritual Machines
I am sure this won't be everyone's cup of tea, but I figured I would post it anyway. I am currently reading The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil - and really enjoying the book. Sort of the sa…
Darpa crazies
This is seriously disturbing. Wired has the scoop. What national security experts and civil libertarians want to know is, why would the Defense Department want to do such a thing? The embryonic LifeLo…