“Orbital skydives to follow inflatable heatshield success?”
And I thought normal skydiving was a little weird.
Archive of posts filed under the Interests category.
Topics on my particular interests.
The Good Old Days
I had an interesting e-mail discussion with Ploni Almoni the other day, about how I should set up my new MacBook‘s security. He suggested installing a separate firewall program, despite the fact that OS X already includes a built-in “application firewall.” After some web research, I told him that it looked like the built-in firewall …
“Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text”
This should go a long way toward preventing Wikipedia-spread hoaxes. With it, Wikipedia might actually become the all-around useful resource that it has long striven to be.
“Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.”
Very interesting information here.
“Tech Support Cheat Sheet”
Here it is. Humorous and completely true at the same time. 🙂 I’m tempted to print out a copy for a few of my relatives… (Via BoingBoing)
“Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop”
Neat information.
The Joys (?) of a New Computer
I have a love/hate relationship with upgrades. On the one hand, it’s exciting to have something new, especially since that something is almost always a major improvement over its predecessor. But on the other, it’s always a major pain to transfer all your data, reinstall all your software, and get used to the new quirks …
“The Jedi Logic”
An interesting and in-depth look at why the Jedi in the Star Wars universe might logically choose to use lightsabers instead of something with more range. It all comes down to the Jedi ability to predict the near future.
I hate it when that happens…
Late Tuesday night, I was playing an old game on my Dell laptop, and the machine froze up — nothing worked. It was the first time that had happened since the motherboard was replaced more than a year ago. Rebooting it led to strange errors, so I shut it down and went to bed. Wednesday …
Computer use as a mental illness?
Another developer I work with sent me this link. Under that definition, I might qualify as mentally ill too, for the same reasons as the author of the article. 🙂