Topics pertaining to science and technology, current or future.
This would be extremely useful, and not just for medical purposes — “cold sleep” is a common plot device in science fiction books and movies, for dealing with decades-long interstellar voyages, just as one example. And since humans obviously can do it, I think it’s inevitable that science will find a way to harness it, …
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I generally find Verity Stob pretty over-the-top, but she didn’t have to exaggerate this one much, if at all. It’s an old one, but it had me smiling and nodding because I’ve seen more than my fair share of Windows machines with nearly every one of the symptoms she mentions. Far too often they’ve been …
I started using Ubuntu three years ago, pushed to it by the advent of Windows Vista and Microsoft’s stated intention to force all Windows users to it. It was quite an effort to switch at that point, but it was a lot easier than it had been even a year earlier. And with every new …
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I’ve installed a new theme (F2, the successor to the Fluid Blue theme that I’ve been using for a while now), and made a child theme from it so I could include my icon. Let me know if you see any problems with it.
Official censorship is bad, but people censoring what they’ll see on their own systems… I can live with that. I love the name too. 😉
It seems that I have a good excuse for keeping my ’96 Corolla on the road — I’m not being cheap, I’m being green! 😉
I always wanted a real tricorder. 😉
Interesting research. Not surprising though, I noticed a long time ago that some of my memories — things that I know are actual events — have gotten mixed up in my head with things that I also know didn’t happen at the same time.
This may sound like something out of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but it’s closer to regeneration a la Dr. Who. Or rather, it’s the first step toward that staple of SF, cloned body parts to replace ailing originals. And better in this case, because you don’t have to grow a whole clone, with …
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It sounds daft when you first hear it, but when you think about it, it’s really quite an elegant solution.