Archive for February, 2008
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Last night I stayed up way too late trying to bring scuzzlebot back to life. He's not there yet. He's nothing more than a chatterbot who reads gossip news feeds and automatically posts new derivative drivel of his own on a stochastic schedule on his own wordpress blog. Anyway - ...
Posted in Strange But True, art, scuzzlebot | No Comments »
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
I just read the first chapter of Marshall Brain's "The Day You Discard Your Body" Like Marshall, I've long been annoyed with sci-fi that doesn't address the idea that we will soon be able to exist separately from our bodies and animate other bodies, both virtually and really. ...
Posted in AI, human machine interface, nanotech | 1 Comment »
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Unlikely as it is to occur anytime soon, I'm all for it! But before a subway to the sea gets built, MTA has plans for other subways going other places. Here's an LA Times article on some other subway-not-to-the-sea proposal. This one would connect the green line ...
Posted in Los Angeles, architecture, envirotech | No Comments »
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
There's only one way to fight *organized crime* - with disorganized noncrime... or, free and anonymous speech! In this vein, the non-entity known as "anonymous" has declared war on the criminal, destructive, dangerous cult known as the Church of Scientology. The declaration came in the form of a ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Cult of the Dead Cow has come out with a new set of diagnostic plumbing tools for the vast series of tubes we know as the internetz.
Hackers use Google to find website vulnerabilities from PhysOrg.com
Infamous computer hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) said Friday it is offering ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
"Improving the Efficiency of the Solar Cell" was the title of my 7th grade science fair project. It was kinda lame... I basically got a fresnel lens, a parabolic mirror, and I tested each of them at concentrating light onto the cell to see if the solar cell would ...
Posted in architecture, envirotech, nanotech | No Comments »
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Because he’s left handed.
I just noticed while watching the democrat debate and IMing with a friend:
et: what do u think is going to happen
et: i havent been paying attention
jd: i’ve been following but i don’t know. he definitely has the lead now. if she loses texas she’s out
jd: and they’re ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
If I had a huge computing task that could only be accomplished by a massive network of computers working together over time, I'd be worried about how to convince millions of people to let me use some time on their cpus. Creating a botnet like storm is one way... I ...
Posted in architecture, free software, intellectual property | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
This I saw via Digg via Gawker and it reminded me that I'd read about research into the development of this product two days ago when I burned my hand on a metal halide light bulb. I didn't realize this product was out... but it is - it's real ...
Posted in Strange But True, gadgetry, intellectual property | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
A huge number of posts I've been making are reposts selected from some of the feeds I read. I installed the wordpress plugin for reblog, an open source project by eyebeam. It didn't work straight off the bat, but I found this bugfix which tells you that there ...
Posted in Web 2.0, free software, scuzzlebot | 2 Comments »
