“Microsoft dumped after India PM’s emails go AWOL”
“Ushers in open-source era“. Um, “oops.” 🙂
Archive of entries posted on April 2009
“Fingerprinting Paper”
An interesting concept, especially the idea of using it to detect and prevent counterfeit documents and currency.
“Can We Increase Our Intelligence?”
I’m fascinated by this kind of stuff, and thought I’d share it. There’s also another article by the same people that’s just as interesting, on the interaction of genetic disposition and environment in producing behaviors.
“Be Relentlessly Resourceful”
I disagree with this slightly. I wasn’t “relentlessly resourceful” when I started my first startup — but I was, and am, a very stubborn determined person. When I start pounding my head against a problem, I don’t stop until either the problem breaks or my head does. So far, it has always been the problem. …
“Scammer shuffles Apple out of 9,000 iPods”
Sometimes you’ve just got to ask yourself what some would-be criminal “mastermind” was thinking. This is one of them. Nine thousand?! I’m the first to agree with the phrase “if it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing,” but even I have limits. And the stupid-stick apparently whacked Apple here too — did no one there notice …
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“Boffin builds DIY solar cell from doughnuts and tea”
Not sure if this is a hoax, but if it’s real, it’s interesting. In a similar vein (and more likely to be real), you can apparently develop film with coffee and vitamin C.
“Twitter not yet in ‘late stage’ talks with Google”
For someone like me, who always tries to trace the reasons for human behaviors, there were a couple of very odd interviews on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report this week. These shows almost always interview recently-published authors on book-promotion tours. The interviews are set up by the authors’ publicists, to get the word …
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Blast from the Past
Yesterday was trash-pickup day for our street. Our trash collectors aren’t too careful, so we sometimes get pieces of wind-blown garbage lying around. While walking to our local store for some cat-related supplies, I saw such an item. It was a 5.25″ floppy disk labeled “Turbo C.” That’s C, not C++. The copyright date in …
OpenIPv6
Looks like Microsoft is going to save the world, yet again. Yes, I’m cynical about anything Microsoft does that supposedly benefits anyone else. They didn’t get where they are through altruism. But a closer look shows that that cynicism might not be justified here. It is a real improvement to their product, and a valid …
Anniversary: World’s Only Flying Penguins Discovered 1 Year Ago Today
A bonus post, in honor of the day.