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As you can probably see by the fact that I’m posting this, we’ve got Internet access back. Turns out the cable modem had gone bad. So much for blaming it on the snow. You don’t really realize just how dependent you are on the Internet until it’s gone for a day. I couldn’t pay my …
And neither can fairies, according to this fellow. What a bummer. Tinkerbell and Archangel Michael will be so disappointed when I tell them about his research. 😉
To ring in the new year, here’s some predictions on technology for the next decade. A lot of them sound a little optimistic, to say the least — but this guy’s got the credentials to back them up if anyone does.
An excellent question to end the decade on… albeit one that only us geeks would think to ask.
Just prior to the Christmas Underwear Bomber, the big security scandal was how the Predator drones don’t use encryption on their video feeds, and militants were using cheap off-the-shelf software to intercept that data. But Bruce Schneier points out the reasons for that, and why encrypting this data is likely to cause more problems than …
If the title alone didn’t cure you of the urge to finish off those Christmas-feast leftovers, read the full article. 🙂 Cloacina was the ancient Roman goddess of sewers. Think about that for a minute. To the Romans, the ability to take vile, disgusting wastewater and just get it the heck out of Rome was …
In the SF book Snow Crash, we’re introduced to the Metaverse, a 3D virtual world where the laws of physics are only casually enforced, and people from all over the world and all walks of life can meet up to discuss business or socialize, do research, or even have the occasional sword fight. Ever since …
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Am I the only one who, on reading this article, could only imagine a plot for a mystery novel involving a painter electrocuting his victim? 😉
I’m a kind and gentle person. I think every living thing on this planet is miraculous and deserves to live out its life without human interference… but I make an exception for parasites. That’s why this article elicited a bloodthirsty cheer. Go, science! 🙂 (Original article linked to from Boing Boing has apparently been pulled. …
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I wish this stuff had existed twenty years ago (or that I’d known about it then). It could have saved me a lot of time scrubbing. Assuming it works, anyway. I’ll have to try it some time, though I rarely work with grease and oil anymore.