What I’ve Been Up To
It’s been a while since the last post. The fact is I’ve been writing a lot more than I’ve been …
The eye-Phone: Reality is (almost) cooler than fiction
I’ll get to the eye-Phone in just a minute, after a bit of context. The series of books that I’m …
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The fastest processor on Earth: 1871 vs. 2008
A few minutes after I’d read the announcement that IBM is now shipping a five-billion-instructions-per-second processor, I noticed another story …
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DARPA: 50 years of radical innovation
from Stephen Barr, for The Washington Post Small and secretive, DARPA has compiled a number of impressive achievements in the …
Ninety orbits, and now on to the next world
Sir Arthur C. Clarke died the other day at 90. There are some great obits out there, and if you’re …
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Now *this* is a robot
Boston Dynamics is one of those stunning pockets of genius that reminds me that the spirit of invention is alive …
Phun: A physics sandbox you can get lost in for a while
University student Emil Ernerfeldt has written a truly amazing, PC-based physics playground for his Master’s thesis, and it’s free to …
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Malfunctioning US Satellite Hit by Well-functioning US Missile
Because of the high profile nature of the mission and the diplomatic tensions surrounding it, it’s reported that Defense Secretary …
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Their Deepest, Darkest Discovery
from The Washington Post Researchers in New York reported this month that they have created a paper-thin material that absorbs …
Ubuntu random crash glitch solved (For me, anyway.)
Update: No crashes, not even a hiccup, after 3 weeks of continuous running following this fix. This subject matter is …
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US Senate approves FISA rewrite, with retroactive immunity
In yet another move that underscores the ongoing, bipartisan lack of anything resembling representative government in the U.S., the Senate …
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Just under the wire: It’s Edison’s birthday!
I’ve been a little busy over the past several days, and I’ve neglected to post here as a result. This …
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