“Happy 15th Birthday to Windows 95, the Ugly Duckling that Conquered Your Desktop”
Yeah, happy birthday… and good riddance. 🙂
Archive of posts filed under the Science and Technology category.
Topics pertaining to science and technology, current or future.
My New iPod, Continued
(This is the conclusion of yesterday’s post about my new fourth-generation 32GB iPod Touch. This first part is being written as iTunes loads my music and applications onto it for the first time.) Kid in a candy store… GoddessJ didn’t sleep well last night, so she was taking a nap. When she got up to …
My New iPod
I bought a 16GB first-generation iPod Touch a few years ago. It has served me well, but its battery is starting to wear out, and iOS updates will no longer work with it. So when the fourth-generation ones came out a few weeks ago, I was ready to buy a new one. They’ve added a …
“Trojan-ridden warning system implicated in Spanair crash”
It should have become obvious to people when the north-eastern US power outage happened a few years ago: malware is dangerous. The computer world is riddled with flaws that make it possible for a kid playing around on the computer in his bedroom (or more recently, a programmer writing a Trojan intended to steal money …
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“Artists Make More Money in File-Sharing Age Than Before It”
The record labels have been making a big stink for at least a decade about how file-sharing is driving artists to the poorhouse, but I’ve always been skeptical of that. The most popular ones might be suffering — maybe — but the vast majority of artists (I know a few) could only benefit from more …
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“Commonly Misheard Expressions to Avoid (or Fix) in Your Writing”
This kind of thing is a pet peeve of mine, and of my wife’s. We’re both avid readers, and she’s the daughter of a teacher as well; we know how these phrases are supposed to be spelled, even if we don’t know the background of them (I never knew where “beyond the pale” actually came …
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“What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain”
Always a good thing to know. I’ve mentioned before that I seem to have acquired a permanent immunity to caffeine, but I don’t see anything here to explain that.
“The Science Behind ‘Having a Bad Day’ (and How to Solve It)”
I don’t have much to add to this, I just thought people might find it useful. In addition to some fun neurobiology information, it offers some concrete steps to use the next time you start thinking that you’re having a “bad day.” (Hint: as I’m sure you suspected, it’s essentially all in your head, and …
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“Nerve connections are regenerated after spinal cord injury”
This is excellent news in and of itself — but it’s also one of the key technologies needed for direct neural connections. 🙂
“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.