Archive for the ‘news’ Category
Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Watching the news in the last few days following the disaster in Katrina's wake has provided lots of opportunity to remember what we take for granted in modern society. Many of the images of anarchy and unattended suffering recalled my (probably flawed) memory of Mad Max movies. Imagining oneself in ...
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Thursday, September 1st, 2005
While I don't want to distract the reality and immediacy of the disaster in the New Orleans area, a friend pointed out this October 2001 article to me and it is hard not to reflect on our prescience of this event:
"A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet ...
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
Just a suggestion...
Check out the simultaneously useful and distracting Google Suggest: as you type the search field expands into a drop down list providing anticipatory or alternative searches and allowing you to see the difference in the size of the result sets for each of them. A great way of ...
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
Today is a highly appropriate returning to life for this blog, which was one of many hobbies laid aside while starting a new venture. Today is a happy day since Nudecybot likes networking, bared skin and mad dashing, and today we get to combine all of them.
Old-School Human Area Networks
Lets ...
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Monday, November 15th, 2004
Anyone who uses a personal computer (or who reads the paper) is aware that PCs are highly susceptible to a raft of problems that fall into the domain of "computer security". Even my parents know that computers need to be patched frequently and are aware (first hand!) that these patches ...
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
The coming economic crisis in information
I enjoyed reading Adam Rifkin's back of the envelope calculations about personal information storage and processing. I'm looking forward to trying to make at least a few of the @20 Gigabytes of information I will deal with in my life really count. I know a ...
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2004
Technology Advances Sports Coverage
Some of you may have noticed the innovative technology provided by the US Open coverage. Watching a few matches I was impressed by the computerized slow motion rendering of close calls that redrew the ball and the lines and eliminated everything else. Apparently they also had a ...
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Monday, September 13th, 2004
Speaking of mud slinging in politics, perhaps this explains how George got really good at playing dirty. Anyone who knows the sport of rugby (somewhat akin to mud wrestling) will be particularly appalled!
I like to think of one's sports persona as reflecting one's character. In a recent book about the ...
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Sunday, September 12th, 2004
Wired News: Better Science Through Gaming: Enormous quantities of data generated by automated techniques in genetics and proteomics have led to an unprecedented requirement for tedious data mining. Here is an interesting product, Genesifter, that makes the task more manageable and fun too! Cool, would love to hear from ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2004
Peer to peer software ruled NOT LIABLE in the USA for copyright infringement activities of their users. Thank goodness some sense can be found here. Any useful tool can be used to ill purposes, we have been through the same issue with photocopiers and last I checked those companies ...
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Saturday, August 14th, 2004
The Onion has written yet another doozie about George Bush's weblog.
For those of you who do not know of The Onion and its place as a leader of satirical news reporting...do not fall into the trap that many have, as reported in this article from Wired: Onion Taken Seriously, Film ...
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Thursday, August 5th, 2004
This site answers the age old question: "How Does One Obtain the Ability to 'See' in Four Spatial Dimensions?"
Also in the do it yourself category, make your own posters with the Rasterbator: "Welcome to the Rasterbator - NOW IN COLOR!The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge rasterized pictures ...
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