“Identifying People by their Bacteria”
I wonder how long it’ll be before this is featured in a CSI episode? I’m betting they’ll do it next season, probably with an application somewhere between highly implausible and scientifically ridiculous.
Archive of posts filed under the Interests category.
Topics on my particular interests.
“Facebook gives you the clap: Official”
The first computer virus that can infect humans too? Ah, no, apparently just some people looking for casual sex via Facebook. And presumably finding it. 😉
“Quantum mechanics applies to objects that can be seen by the naked eye”
Interesting news on the cutting-edge science front. Amusing quote: Bob Harris says: “What’s the real-world application? No one knows, although cats should start avoiding any box they could become trapped in.” The comments are also highly amusing, at least to a science geek like me.
“Irate Aussies go after US website”
This is just ludicrous: The [Australian group] insists that the site should follow Australian law because, although the site is hosted in the US, with free speech protection, articles which can be read and downloaded in Australia are considered to have been published in Australia. It doesn’t take a genius to follow this thinking to …
“Microsoft slams coffin lid on Vista”
“Service pack-free OS life support switched off as few mourn passing”. And good riddance to bad rubbish. Too bad they’ll have to keep supporting Vista SP1 and SP2 for a while longer.
“Petition to make “Hella” the prefix for 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000″
Sounds like a good idea to me. Finally, when someone says “that’s a hella-big number,” I’ll know exactly what they’re talking about. 😉 I don’t know whether it will go through or not, but it’s likely to get adopted colloquially regardless. It’s already pretty much there.
“Study Sheds Light on What Makes People Shy”
Curious. And it sounds awfully familiar too.
“Fear 2012? Bunker hustler has you covered” — NSFW commentary!
(It’s Tax Day! Have you filed your taxes yet? And no, this isn’t the NSFW part. 😉 ) Oh, this is a fun one… so many creative ways that the world is on the edge of destruction! So many things to fear! Yes, fear them! “But,” says this Robert Vicino fellow, “if you give me …
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“United States of Insurance”
Scott Adams (yes, the Dilbert guy) had an interesting post the other day, on restructuring the government as an insurance agency. He makes a compelling case of it, too. He admits that it could never happen, but as he says at the end, it’s “interesting to think about.”
Memory Expansion!
I’ve had to do a lot of work on my Windows 7 virtual machine recently, with my Linux virtual machine running at the same time. It was… painful. Even starting up the Win7 VM while the Linux VM was running meant twenty minutes or more of an essentially unusable machine. Starting up the Win7 VM, …