“Scientists use virus to build a better battery”
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you a virus… enslave it to build things for you. 😉
Archive of posts filed under the Interests category.
Topics on my particular interests.
“U2 song whacked my hard drive”
Wow, I didn’t realize that today’s hardware was already intelligent enough to dislike U2. 😉 (I happen to like U2’s work, at least the stuff I’ve heard, but the joke was too good to pass up.)
“Exercises That Protect Against Carpal Tunnel Syndrome”
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. My mother has had operations for it; I’ve had precursors of it myself a few times. Hopefully these exercises will work to protect against it.
“French Reject ‘Three-Strikes’ Piracy Measure”
Uh-oh, looks like french fries are about to become “freedom fries” again. 😉
“Microsoft dumped after India PM’s emails go AWOL”
“Ushers in open-source era“. Um, “oops.” 🙂
“Fingerprinting Paper”
An interesting concept, especially the idea of using it to detect and prevent counterfeit documents and currency.
“Can We Increase Our Intelligence?”
I’m fascinated by this kind of stuff, and thought I’d share it. There’s also another article by the same people that’s just as interesting, on the interaction of genetic disposition and environment in producing behaviors.
“Scammer shuffles Apple out of 9,000 iPods”
Sometimes you’ve just got to ask yourself what some would-be criminal “mastermind” was thinking. This is one of them. Nine thousand?! I’m the first to agree with the phrase “if it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing,” but even I have limits. And the stupid-stick apparently whacked Apple here too — did no one there notice …
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“Boffin builds DIY solar cell from doughnuts and tea”
Not sure if this is a hoax, but if it’s real, it’s interesting. In a similar vein (and more likely to be real), you can apparently develop film with coffee and vitamin C.
“Twitter not yet in ‘late stage’ talks with Google”
For someone like me, who always tries to trace the reasons for human behaviors, there were a couple of very odd interviews on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report this week. These shows almost always interview recently-published authors on book-promotion tours. The interviews are set up by the authors’ publicists, to get the word …
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