Archive for March, 2006
Monday, March 20th, 2006
Spore looks to be a truly amazing game in the works from the original creators of Simcity. It seems to combine elements of some other classic simulation strategy games such as Populous and Civilization, crossed with the more modern "god" games such as Impossible Creatures and Black and White. One ...
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Friday, March 17th, 2006
Dan Fischer of Paradrenaline fame and the legendary Step Up for the Cure event recently took a trip to Lake Placid where apparently you can spend $40 to run and ride in a bobsled. He has a great story about how he actually managed to get on the course but ...
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Thursday, March 16th, 2006
New Scientist reports on DNA Origami:
A map of the Americas measuring just a few hundred nanometres across has been created out of meticulously folded strands of DNA, using a new technique for manipulating molecules dubbed "DNA origami".
According to the map's creator, Paul Rothemund at Caltech in Pasadena, US, DNA origami ...
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Thursday, March 16th, 2006
In search, its all about where you show up. Look at the user attention data picture below from this study. Small wonder that paid search is now being placed in a small bar at the top of the search results, whereas it used to only appear in the sidebar. Clearly ...
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Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
Looking inside yourself is quite surreal, and I'm not talking about introspection: I had an MRI scan due to a nagging back injury from indoor ultimate. The whole process was quite fast, about 20 minutes. You get loaded into a very tight space so this is definitely not for the ...
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
Speaking of coffee, Fishbooks and I like to get our fresh ground espresso nearby at Cafe Union. Highly recommended for their deep knowledge of all things espresso related, their friendly service, and their coffee bar. Our precious Gaggia machine was born there.
And speaking of killer beans (see my last post) ...
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
Coffee enriches my life in so many ways: socially, gustatorily, as a surrogate for other vices, but most of all by fighting the somnolescence induced by a historical avoidance of any kind of regular sleeping pattern. Not being a morning person, my business probably would cease to function if ...
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
Yoda said "Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'" He didn't run a site on the internet, which is and always will be a "best effort network" with no guarantees of availability and performance. It is up to the customer to optimize these aspects the best they can for ...
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
What if the radio just knew what you wanted to listen to? Could a radio station learn what kind of music you like? Would you listen to a channel that can play songs you have never heard but will probably like? Well thanks to Kirsten, internet lurker extraordinaire, and by ...
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
Science News reports that experimental evidence continues to mount that mammals who exercise demonstrate both better cognitive abilities and regenerative healing of nervous tissue.
When they dissected the rats' brains, Gage's team found changes similar to those that they'd seen in the previous study's mice: The runners had more new neurons ...
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