“Which programming language to use on one’s headstone?”
Definitely tongue-in-cheek, but amusing for us programmer-geeks.
Archive of posts filed under the Interests category.
Topics on my particular interests.
“Bacterial nanowire discovery could revolutionize bioelectronics”
An exciting discovery: […] Similar to the flexibility of artificial nano-wires, the conducting properties of the Geobacter biofilm could be manipulated by simply changing the temperature or regulating gene expression to create a new strain, for example. By adding a third electrode, the biofilm can act like a biological transistor, able to be switched on …
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“Increase Your Brain Power by Doing Things the Hard Way”
It’s true. The modern conveniences are great, once you know how to do things the old-fashioned, by-hand way. But if you’ve always used the conveniences, and never bothered to learn the hard way of doing something, you’re cheating yourself. I see it all the time in programming. People who started out with a high-level language …
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“Are Some Evangelicals Beginning to Question the Existence of Adam and Eve?”
This week, on the Colbert Report, I heard something that shocked me: some evangelical Christian scientists were beginning to publicly doubt that humanity could be descended from one man and one woman, as described in the book of Genesis. The reason it shocked me is that I couldn’t believe that someone who identified himself as …
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“Italian boffins to robo-grapple space junk”
What is this, a geek version of one-upsmanship? Now the Italians are offering their own plan for cleaning up low-Earth orbit: a robotic satellite that will slap a thruster onto larger pieces of debris and light it. This rivals the Japanese fishing-net idea and the American ground-based laser plan.
“And a Barista Will Lead Them”
Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, points out a Bloomberg article about the CEO of Starbucks Corp. urging other business leaders to suspend donations to political campaigns “until the Congress and the President return to Washington and deliver a fiscally disciplined long-term debt and deficit plan to the American people.” Other than armed revolt, that’s likely …
Site Moved
(If you’re reading this, then you’re on the new site. Congratulations. 😉 ) After hosting my websites with Total Choice Hosting (TCH from here on) for more than eight years, I’ve been forced to move them. The issue: lost e-mails. A few months ago, a friend of mine called to ask if I’d gotten his …
“Final Destination 5”
I keep seeing ads for Final Destination 5. Could someone explain to me the appeal of the Final Destination movies? Because I just don’t get it. After the first one, audiences must have known that essentially everyone was going to die by the end of the movie, with absolutely no way to save themselves or …
“Scientists Steer Car With the Power of Thought”
The future is getting closer. 🙂
“Amuse shelter cats with online remote-control toys”
Finally we discover the reason that the Internet was created.