In an exciting technology announcement, Professor Robert Linhardt of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute says that his team has created a battery out of nothing but paper, carbon nanotubes, and an electrolyte fluid!
Even if it were perfect, it wouldn’t be available for years yet. But this is just the kind of battery technology that we need for high-tech systems.
See this page for more info, and set your computer, PDA, or phone to remind you. 🙂
Spam has become enough of a topic here that I’ve given it it’s own category, and reclassified a number of earlier entries on the subject.
I also wanted to mention the blog-comment spam problem again. Oddly enough, out of over two hundred such attempts, every blog-comment spam that I’ve had here has been on one of two entries. I got tired of it, so I decided to try turning off comments on those two entries. It’s amazing… I haven’t had a single comment-spam attempt in the last several days!
Now back to our regularly scheduled spam update, already in progress. Continue reading ‘Latest Inadvertently Amusing Spam Roundup’ »
Although the sound volume of our three part-Siamese cats is generally set to “annoying,” this article gives a possibly-useful, and definitely-interesting, method of approximating the true physical volume. And it’s something that the cat will cooperate with. 🙂
(Be sure to check out the “rat-like creature” link, purely for the hilarious pictures.)
From our friend Interrobang, a hilarious mention of the Transformers movie. I chuckled for several minutes when I first saw it today.
It’s so nice to see that fathers are doing more things with their children these days.
I’ve always felt a certain kinship to the character of Sherlock Holmes. Not for his ability to notice the most minute of details, or his reasoning skills, or his undeniable flair for disguise… admirable as those and many of his other traits may be, it’s his moods between cases that I’ve always identified with. Continue reading ‘Fun, and How To Have It’ »
If you’re a fan of really big trucks, check out this one.
The air conditioning fellow arrived about 45 minutes ago and spent maybe fifteen minutes isolating and fixing the problem (a blown capacitor). We’re finally starting to cool down now. I may be able to move back to the office in a couple hours. 🙂