Archive for October, 2008
South Park vs George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
South Park seems to have taken on my two least favorite celebrities in the world of Hollywood and done it with style (that is, if you think South Park is stylish. 89% of the time, I don’t.) The Los Angeles Times online posted an article on one of it’s blogs commenting on the South Park [...]
Magnetic Earth Map
This is not one of those posts about a cute magnetic shaped like the Earth (or maybe a cute magnet with a map of the Earth, or some variation of that theme). Instead, this is a map of the magnetic fields of the Earth. Compiled from more than 50 years of data, this map
was brought [...]
Apple Tax
To prove that I’m not pro-Mac:
Gizmodo gives you the raw deal on just what you get when you buy a MAC, and how far your dollar gets you when buying MAC vs PC.
Seems especially relevant in today’s economy.
New MAC Advertisements
I’m not pro-MAC, but neither am I pro-Vista:
Cinnamon Rolls
CINNAMON ROLL RECIPE
INGREDIENTS
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons white sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup butter, chilled
1 cup cold milk
1/3 cup margarine
1 cup packed brown sugar
3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/3 cup currants
1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
3 tablespoons milk
DIRECTIONS
1. Cream 1/3 cup butter or margarine, brown sugar, and cinnamon together. Drop 1 teaspoon into each of 12 greased [...]
Universal Translator?
Over at the UK Telegraph, journalists have been talking with programmers over at the Leeds Metropolitan University about a computer program being written to analyze an incoming signal from outer space to determine if it’s audio, video, or raw text. And, if it’s a language being sent, put a syntax to it to start the [...]
Project Diary: Xtools (8)
Brought the 0.10.2 revision over to the production site as it fixes a number of critical bugs. I’m still working on 0.11.0, which begins the implementation of the ESN parser. All database tables have been generated and the upgrade code has been written in to the core plugin code so that when it’s moved over [...]
DMCA & McCain
Wired posted the aftermath of an exchange between the McCain-Palin campaign and YouTube. The net-net of the article is that McCain was a signatory on the DMCA (copyright act) which places certain obligations on to content intermediaries such as YouTube. Succinctly, if you host content, and if someone makes a claim to you that the [...]
An end to paralysis
io9 re-posted an article recently about a medical breakthrough allowing brain-computer-interfaces to be built that bridge existing nerve tissue in a limb with the brain, bypassing an injury. These brain-to-muscle connections eliminate the need for prosthetic limbs where the original limb still exists, but is unusable because of some trauma. Previous experiments in the BCI [...]
Buckminster Fuller and the future of aviation
If you know nothing about Buckminster Fuller then I entreat you to visit Wikipedia and read the recount of his life and work. While it may not be wholely accurate, it will contain many references that can be reviewed for accuracy. Interestingly enough, although certain geodesic dome patterns were named Bucky Balls after Fuller, the football [...]
