Topics pertaining to science and technology, current or future.
Like many geeks, I’ve been watching the progress of what BoingBoing is calling “the AACS Debacle” with interest over the last couple days. For those of you not familiar with it, here’s the executive summary: some guy, apparently irritated that he wasn’t allowed to play the next-generation Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs on his Linux machine, dug …
All sorts of interesting news today… this article talks about biofeedback technology being used in games. It’s a nice idea, but I don’t think this one’s going to happen real soon either: “Mom, I need a biofeedback controller for my Nintendo.” “A what?” “It’s this really neat thing that reads your mind and lets you …
This is one of those little SF technologies, like the flying car, that has long been dreamed of but has never happened. It’s easy to understand why the flying car hasn’t — safety concerns, security concerns, and price. But the only reason I can come up with against short-range wireless power is the chicken-and-egg problem: …
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I’ve heard all about blog-comment spam, and I’ve even stumbled over a little of it here and there around the ‘net. I’d wondered how long it would be before the Geek Drivel blog attracted it’s first one. No need to wonder any further: it showed up a few minutes ago, a credit-card spam, and was …
As the saying goes, cats make two things: baby cats, and cat poo. We have three feline friends, and while I haven’t seen any evidence of baby cats, I can certainly attest to the latter half of that statement. If you’re bored or offended by talk of the removal of feline waste products, don’t read …
I use JP Software’s 4NT, a wonderful and much-improved command shell (it replaces Windows’ CMD.EXE). JP Software released a major version of it about six or seven months ago, and there have been about a dozen minor updates since. Unfortunately, they don’t have any way to automatically check when these updates come out… you have …
It’s a Sunday, and I didn’t have anything more interesting to do, so I’ve finally decided to install some blog software and give the world even more useless commentary. Fun, eh? 🙂 According to Aaron Brazell, there are two kinds of bloggers: “those who blog for themselves, and those who write for others.” I’m one …