“History of trepanation”
To this, I can only say, “you want another hole in your head?!”
Archive of entries posted by Head Geek
“Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?”
The New York Times compares the two remaining Democratic contenders to Apple’s famous Mac vs. PC commercials. Quite amusing.
“Researchers share video contact lens vision”
In-eye TV, anyone?
“Shirt lights up when love is near”
Today in the “technology for the completely clueless” department: a pair of shirts that show you (and everyone around you) how close you are to your paramour. Literally. This is good for about five minutes of conversation, then it’s just tacky… tacky, tacky.
“Beet Juice Used To Fight Ice”
Amazing. They’ve finally come up with a decent use for beets.
“Vista successor, Windows 7 to be released next year? | APC Magazine”
Great. If it reverses some of the truly bone-headed decisions that Vista was graced with — such as the Hollywood-friendly but user-hostile DRM stuff that’s built in — then it can’t come soon enough. And apparently even Microsoft secretly agrees… Pulling such a major release forward would be out of character for Microsoft. Could this …
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“IBM snuggles up with Ubuntu”
Hm…
Best of Craigslist: “Help me keep the shell people alive”
I sympathize with the idea, and the guy is apparently serious… but even GoddessJ (a self-identified “geek groupie”) wouldn’t be likely to go for this. On the other hand, it might be a good way to get dates with techie girls… 😉
I’m tickled pink about ThunderBayes!
After several days of using ThunderBayes/SpamBayes, I’m happy to report that it’s just as awesome as it was rumored to be! 😀 Even better, I’ve been able to fix one of the problems that I had with setting it up (the multiple-accounts bug). I sent the code changes to Daniel Miller, the original ThunderBayes developer, …
Antivirus Programs
Every so often, some company will say something about a virus or antivirus program (such as this), and the comments on it (if allowed) will be filled with an OS flame war. I’ve used PC-based computers since 1989 or thereabouts. In that time, I’ve been attacked by two viruses — one in 1997, a DOS …