“Driller robot to explore great pyramid”
I’ve been waiting for years to find out what’s behind that little door. It’s almost certainly nothing… but there’s always the chance that it will be something amazing.
Archive of entries posted by Head Geek
“How to Program Your Immune System”
“Altermune.” Pretty damn smart. I expect this will be a product (or more likely, dozens of products) before this decade is out. And that people born in the next one will consider our worries about most infectious diseases as incomprehensible as we see the beliefs of the Dark Ages.
“Funny t-shirt: ‘this was supposed to be the future'”
I love it. Now if we can just make it obsolete… 😉
“Fidgeting and Doodling Could Be Unconscious Focus Tools”
I always wondered why some people doodled when they were listening or thinking. This may explain it.
“Shark Knife will terrify your enemies with macho impracticality”
As the last sentence in the description says: The Klingons have a word for this, most often translated as “trying too hard.” 🙂
Wireless Webcams
I recently had a discussion with a friend about webcams, and we both mentioned that we rarely had any use for them… at least, for the usual uses. We’ve had a problem in the last few months with one of our cats defecating on the floor in a particular spot. As mentioned, we have three …
“Think Twice About What ‘Everybody Knows'”
I found some of this stuff to be shocking. It’s worth a read.
“How To Grow A New Joint Inside Your Body”
I think I’m jealous of future generations. They’ll grow up with all this neat technological stuff that we’re just hearing about now, like the ability to regrow a damaged joint in your own body. The stuff of science fiction to us will be taken for granted by them. On the other hand, they’ll have to …
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Useful Memory Tricks
I’ve mentioned the memory tricks that I use before, a couple times. Yesterday I had a rare chance to really put them to the test. I’d used those tricks to remember the combination to a lock that I’d put on our shed, maybe six or seven years ago. The lock was on there for less …
“WPA Cracker cracks WiFi passwords in the cloud”
I can’t believe that someone had the gall to do this. My systems are safe enough, because I use long random strings that I’ve been able to memorize, but most of the WiFi networks of my friends and associates — the ones I’ve been given the passwords for — would fall to it quickly. I …
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