Topics pertaining to science and technology, current or future.
“Computer keyboards are filthier than toilets, according to a recent study.” Oh my, everybody break out the disinfectant wipes, pronto! Has no one considered that the strength of your immune system, like many other biological systems, depends on how much exercise it gets? Regular exposure to common bacteria and viruses is what keeps it strong. …
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A look at the systematic and dishonest fiddling that has been done with climate data to make us think that there is a global warming problem, followed by a reminder that none of this is new: Bear in mind that warming and cooling concerns are nothing new, as this alarming bulletin reminds us – The …
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Although the most obvious use for this is to replace flash memory, I suspect it’s going to be very important in the future, to a lot of different applications.
Poloni Ploni Almoni mentioned this page to me. I’m not an MBA, and I’ve never studied their way of thinking, so it was quite eye-opening, and finally explains a lot about cell phone providers that I’ve never understood before.
So much for the “you can’t prove evolution because no one can see it happen” argument.
I decided to try Firefox 3 today, because Firefox 2 takes well over five seconds to load on my new Eee system. Not a big deal most of the time, but when I’m scanning RSS news articles in Thunderbird and keep seeing articles I want to read, a five second delay for each one gets …
This was apparently an April Fool’s joke that I just saw for the first time. After I stopped laughing, I started thinking… it actually sounds like a good idea, at least to a point.
I was recently discussing the state of computers with a friend, and it occurred to me that there’s no obvious business case for Apple to make their Safari browser available for Windows. It makes sense for them to have their own browser for the Mac, so that they’re not at the mercy of any other …
Well, I’ve had this thing for four days now, and I’ve finally gotten it set up the way I wanted it. The first thing I wanted to do was replace the Xandros Linux on it with Ubuntu, both because I wanted the same set of programs available to me as on my larger systems, and …
Interesting… Joel Spolsky (of Joel on Software fame) and Jeff Atwood (of the Coding Horror programming blog) are getting together to create a free programming Q&A site. Having done my fair share of Internet research on programming topics, I think it’s an excellent idea. Here’s Joel’s announcement, and here’s Jeff’s.