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Friday, January 27, 2006 IE and Mozilla neck to neck here. I just updated my adblocker which led to 5,000 page requests today and the stats are very positive. Both IE and Firefox (which is identified as mozilla/netscape compatible) requested about 2,000 pages each. I think last time I checked IE was still a clear winner. Competition is good. Very good.
@ 09:21 PM CST [Link] In the 60s astronauts were ready to jump out of their rockets and land on earth. Behold, the MOOSE concept: one-person re-entry without a spacecraft.
@ 01:02 PM CST [Link] Grandaddy breaks up. Shame, really, but their output has been spotty (both in quality and release) and I can't say I'm too surprised. @ 08:39 AM CST [Link] Wednesday, January 25, 2006 Cornell students build self-replicating robot. So cool and so creepy. Replication without the traditional 'shooting DNA at each other' trick. Excellent. @ 07:37 PM CST [Link] Librarian summarizes a year of lending video games. Nice to hear the patrons aren't scoffing anymore. I'm sure people scoffed at graphic novels and comics at the library, but I was thankful to get read all those free Sandman and Elfquest books. @ 07:33 PM CST [Link] Scientific fraud might lead to 'photoshop detector.' Neato. Old idea, but so far no free download. @ 07:28 PM CST [Link] Tuesday, January 24, 2006 Nutty professor thinks microwave radiation has secret codes. “If you did create such a universe, how would you tell the occupants of that universe that their universe was made in a lab at MIT?” Hsu said. “One place to put the message would be in a microwave background.”Err right. You could aslo stamp it on everyone's forehead. I love how futurists and other nutters always think some giant advance which will change the world and validate their beliefs is always 20 or 30 years away. It was kinda sad to see Tim Leary die of cancer after reading so much of his stuff about the immortality pill that was 20 or 30 years away. Or the pill that would simulate death thus giving you a new outlook on life, which of course, was only 20 or 30 years away. Suddenly, it 20 or 30 years later and none of these high-minded predictions came true. Also, according to Ray Kurzweil the singularity or at least a really really good human mind simulator is only 20 or 30 years away. I'm all for positive thinking, but big advances are rarely forseen. Who foresaw Newtonian physics or Relativity? Or even the things we take for granted post-Industrial Revolution. The future is always weirder than our predictions.
@ 06:44 PM CST [Link] Monday, January 23, 2006 Top 10 NASA photos. They're all amazing. There's volcanic activity off a moon of Io and clouds on Neptune. The photo that is at number one was actually taken from earth with an 8" telescope. That's impressive, but not as impressive as the deepest photo of the cosmos yet taken labeled 10,000 galaxies. Take a good look, each spot is a galaxy. Each galaxy has between 200-400 billion stars. Its galaxies as far as we can see. Blown up section below. The full image is a 30 meg jpeg.
@ 05:28 PM CST [Link] Ray Kurzweil on the future and that wacky thing he calls the singularity. Long and thought provoking read. Everytime I read something from Kurzweil I just think he's being way too much of an optimist. @ 01:21 PM CST [Link] Full screen color video on an 8088. Someone managed to get the IBM 5150, the first PC, to do some really neat video tricks. Supposedly this is in text mode and each pixel is a colored text block. This is a computer that runs at 4.77 mhz. The Tron footage is really impressive. @ 11:36 AM CST [Link] Dev2.0 Devo reborn as a kid band. I guess I should be offended somehow, but I never thought of Devo as a good band, just a mediocre and amusing quirky band. Now, Pavement is a good quirky band. Please tell me there's no Pavement kid band.
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