Lee on Nov 15 2008 | Filed under: Culture, Technology
It seems the marriage of David Pollard and Amy Taylor is heading toward divorce, due to Pollard’s virtual affair with a virtual prostitute, uncovered by a virtual private detective hired by Taylor.
It occurs to me that the key thing William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and the 80s cyberpunk movement got wrong when they were conjecturing about [...]
Lee on Nov 04 2008 | Filed under: Lee's Page, Military Matters, Technology
Light and infrared targeting devices for games. (Photo by Rob Stradling | website)
Al Qaeda technicians have apparently pioneered the use of electronics in old SEGA game cartridges for bomb detonators. A smaller precedent than the use of the airliner as suicide missile, but no less remarkable as a demonstration of the the transnational terrorist group’s [...]
MikeR on Sep 14 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
Impact Lab“A new long-range energy transmission experiment opens the possibility of sending solar energy from space to earth.”
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Lee on Sep 01 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Premium iron ore is expensive in the days of the mineral wars, and Japan’s industry needs a lot of it. So, Japan is looking at an inventive new way to minimize steel production’s iron appetite.
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Lance on Apr 25 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Environment
Over at Green Tech we get some figures that should be rather sobering for those who wish for alternative energy to be a significant source of energy in the near future:
Put another way, we’d need to equip 250,000 roofs a day with solar panels for the next 50 years to have enough photovoltaic infrastructure to [...]
MichaelW on Mar 20 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
No, it’s not about a farting midget at a basketball game. So I guess in that sense the headline is sort of false advertising.
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Lee on Feb 29 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Hilarious story. If you put the password in the page, it’s not exactly hacking for someone to enter your “secure” site. To add to the hilarity, they’ve left the insecure login method in place and merely changed the password (view source here). Sigh. To make matters worse for them they’ve hit the home page of [...]
Lee on Feb 03 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Over at Modern Mechanix I saw some pocket prescience from 1939. I went looking for further information and found instead this site at Oklahoma State. It’s an incredibly complete archive of Linus Pauling’s papers, including a near day by day account of every dated scrap of paper Linus Pauling ever owned. It includes: “January 17, [...]
Lance on Jan 31 2008 | Filed under: Blogs, Lance's Page, Technology
When I finish typing this and hit publish, the blog will send out a ping, and then the enters the strange ecosystem of the internet:
Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. [...]
Lee on Jan 27 2008 | Filed under: Health Care, Lee's Page, Travel
Yeah, that’s me after a few too many cocktails in the hotel lounge. As Lance related, I’m in Houston in the Texas Medical Center (TMC) visiting my father who recently had an internal defibrillator put on his heart. The surgery went remarkably well and he seems more lively than when he went under the knife [...]
Lance on Jan 18 2008 | Filed under: Lance's Page, Technology
Via Instapundit we see it may come true:
Imagine running your laptop nonstop from New York to Tokyo — crunch some numbers, work on a memo pop in a few DVDs — and then do a full day of meetings, using your machine throughout the day and into the night. Imagine doing all this [...]
ChrisB on Jan 16 2008 | Filed under: Chris' Page, Technology
Scientists have progressed one step closer to my dream of being the laziest person in the world by way of controlling computers and robots with my mind. Neuroscientists at Duke University teamed up with a robot in Kyoto, Japan to take us one step closer. Back in 2003 they were able to hook up electrodes [...]
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