“Are the ice caps melting?”
A lesson in Bad Science from NASA (predictably on Global Warming again): if the facts get in the way of your favorite theory, ignore the facts.
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Topics pertaining to science and technology, current or future.
“Openmoko to release Linux handset tomorrow”
Want a good cell phone/organizer, but don’t want to pay through the nose for a proprietary and closed-source system that limits you in all sorts of ways? Looks like there’s an alternative coming Real Soon Now. 🙂
“Now that Vista is now the only Windows you can buy preinstalled…”
Apparently a lot of people have decided to avoid Windows Vista. Good for you, guys! 🙂
Goodbye, Windows XP
A sad farewell to Windows XP. It wasn’t the greatest, but it was a lot better than the piece-of-excrement successor that Microsoft is trying to force on everyone right now.
“Making vinyl records the old-fashioned way”
It seems that the LP is making a comeback, thanks (indirectly) to the iPod.
“#ifdef Considered Harmful”
This is an old (1992) paper on writing cross-platform C programs, but it’s useful nonetheless. A lot of the problems highlighted in it have all but vanished over the intervening years, but the general ideas are still valid, even on Windows machines. (Have you ever tried writing a non-trivial Windows application, using the raw Win32 …
“Ballmer to Google: You’re a one-hit wonder”
“Pot, meet kettle.” 🙂
Weekend Trip
GoddessJ had a wedding shower to attend, so we packed up and took an overnight trip to the shores of Lake Huron. It was interesting… I saw a large number of power-generating windmills, including a couple that were still being put together (the first time I’d seen them close up — they’re freakin’ huge! I …
“Heavyweight physics prof weighs into climate/energy scrap”
The climate-change debate isn’t finished, but a British scientist has put some hard numbers on the various carbon-neutral energy plans that people have put forward for dealing with it. Interesting reading.
“Water Ice Found on Mars”
Yes, the Phoenix lander has found water ice! With water-ice proven to exist on Mars, it becomes a lot more likely that life, of some familiar sort, could be there too. It also means that human habitation of Mars could be viable (a lack of water would make a Mars colony prohibitively expensive). No wonder …