“Mail Rail: London’s long-lost underground postal railroad”
I’ve always loved this sort of thing. The idea of exploring secretive, long-hidden places fascinates me.
Archive of entries posted by Head Geek
“Disclaimers in Email Signatures are Not Just Annoying, But Legally Meaningless”
I recently saw this, and having seen several of these disclaimers in the last decade or so, thought it would make a good blog topic. When I first started communicating with BigCo, they had a policy that required an eleven-line legal disclaimer at the end of all e-mails. I know bits are cheap, but these …
“The Future of Sleep”
I’ve previously mentioned my inability to stay asleep long enough each night. I really need at least seven and a half hours a night, but can rarely get more than six before rising no matter what time I go to bed, like it or not. And yes, I’ve tried melatonin… I don’t recall whether it …
“Enormous 1km ice-cube machine fashioned at South Pole”
Neat. I’d heard of neutrino detectors in played-out salt mines, but this is far larger. And hopefully far better at its job too.
“Stiglitz: wealth concentration will be America’s downfall”
There’s a growing movement to “do something” about the massive inequality of wealth in the US, but no one seems to know what to do, or even what can be done. The obscenely wealthy essentially control the politicians (if you don’t believe me, just look at the rhetoric of “tax cuts for the wealthy!” that …
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“Got a buck to send M Night Shyamalan to film school?”
I’ve never watched any of his other movies, so far as I know — they seldom appeal to me — but I happened to like the movie The Last Airbender, though I know I’m in the minority. If I’d ever followed the series it was based on, I’d probably be donating to this too. Probably …
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“Lasers set to replace spark plugs in car engines”
It seems that we’re finally on the verge of the future we geeks have been dreaming about for the last half-century. Laser spark plugs… how cool is that! 😉
Exasperating!
VMware Fusion 3 is a great piece of software, but it has some very annoying quirks. My Linux virtual machine was getting some very annoying delays at times that it shouldn’t have. Compiling a fairly small project resulted in a ridiculous amount of “iowait” time. Even switching folders in my current e-mail program could take …
“Happy Birthday, Skynet!”
It seems that I missed an important date in science-fiction yesterday: Today’s the day when Skynet achieves sentience, according to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The nuclear armageddon happens in a couple days. […]
“Möbius Gear: a one-sided, toothed gear”
If asked, I’d have said this wasn’t possible. Just goes to prove that I’m not omniscient. 😉 I wonder what use someone will find for it. The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. — Harry Emerson Fosdick