All my blog posts and articles
Page 70 of 141 (2815 total posts)
I heard yesterday that there is “at least one farm” in Australia bigger than Texas. I guess this was a way to remind me that Australia is really really big. Which I think I knew already so I let it go. But then I got to thinking, Texas is pretty big too, and a single farm that size was still a little hard to believe. So I am looking for data. Can anyone prove or disprove the statement?
Read more →“That journey will provide reasons for resisting the claim that a deterministic view of the material universe is incompatible with free will. Much of the apparent power of deterministic arguments comes from their focusing on isolated actions, or even components of actions, that have been excised f...
When my computer turns on it can often take 30 to 120 seconds for my Samsung LCD display to wake up. Facts of the case: - Display is 213T and is something like 3-5 years old - Office can be cold - I am sure the computer is ready within seconds. It’s just waking up. It will play music for example right away. - In every other respect the display is fine - It has always done this Do you know?
As a naturalized citizen who’s lived here for most of his life, Football used to be foreign to me. I grew up knowing soccer and baseball but for the first years Football was a mystery. Now I have a pretty good grasp of football and enjoy watching games on TV. But then I come across something like t...
Read more →From Science Daily: Couch Potatoes Beware: Too Much Time Spent Watching TV Is Harmful to Heart Health. > “Data show that compared to people who spend less than two hours each day on screen-based entertainment like watching TV, using the computer or playing video games, those who devote more than four hours to these activities are more than twice as likely to have a major cardiac event that involves hospitalization, death or both.” (from Couch Potatoes Beware: Too Much Time Spent Watching TV Is Harmful to Heart Health
An insightful article about higher education in the USA: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education. Here are some interesting quotes. It’s a long article and all of it was quite interesting. > “Students at places li...
Read more →Scott Kirsner tweets: > “Invented at MIT, Sifteo cubes (tiny displays that talk to each other) are almost ready: http://bit.ly/eXsCQU / http://bit.ly/ehhZ1Q” Sifteo cubes are similar (except much more expensive and presumably programmable) to Scrabble Flash, that have been around since last year. Interesting.
Just came across this handy-dandy tool to run tests for Ruby and Rails, and produce much nicer and readable traces so you have a prayer to sort out what is going on when stuff fails. [Test::Unit Reporter — A new look and feel for Test::Unit output](https://github.com/TwP/turn?utm_source=feedburner&...
Read more →I just came across an excellent speech given by William Deresiewics (I didn’t know who he was either) to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point. The title of the speech is Solitude and Leadership. I had a har...
Read more →
I was amused by these two, maybe because I myself am unable to achieve any of them: Beard Type Chart The Quest for Every Beard Type
I’ve seen Path, the new "un social" network (limit 50 friends) plugged by pundits and journalists. I tried it and just didn’t get it. Didn’t know what it was for, who it was for, and why it was getting attention. So I am glad finally to come across a commentator who seems to agree with m...
Read more →Check out Stuxnet apparently as effective as a military strike(from [Ars Technica](http://arstechnica.com/members/318783044fd511917d3bc9765d8...
Read more →Check out The Flawed Legal Architecture of the Certificate Authority Trust Model(from Freedom to Tinker: ** "The bottom line is that the CA Trust Model’...
Read more →This is really nice: Restfulie – Rest from Scratch. It’s a package of code for creating REST clients and servers with built in content type negotiation and other goodies. Watch the fun tour-do-force video too: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11294789&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 “Rest from scratch” with Rails and Restfulie – part 1 from Caelum on Vimeo.
I continue to be fascinated by this. Is WikiLeaks a good guy or a bad guy? I don’t know how I feel yet, so I continue to read. Here are more articles that have impressed me: From Jeremy Wagstaff’s Loose Wire Blog: > “Asked why he chose to work with three major news o...
Read more →Like many, I don’t know yet whether I support or condemn the Wikileaks action that has been discussed and debated at length on all fora. You have to agree that it has yielded some interesting insights about the way the world works. First of all: as far as a diplomat making *snide comments...
Read more →I’ve always been a major space travel fan and geek. This video linked from Engadget incredibly had me glued to my seat for almost 40 minutes. Some fantastic super slow motion footage of the launch. Note especially how the two narrators just love the shuttle and love their jobs. They can’t get enough of it, even after having seen this stuff a million times over.
Check out this really interesting Pogue article in the New York Times: “Gorilla Glass, the Smartphone’s Unsung Hero”. Here’s a tidbit: > “It’s the screen of every touchscreen phone, like th...
Read more →Following up from yesterday’s post, in fact, I was able to get $300 for my mint condition iPhone 3GS on Craig’s list, and was able to buy a new iPhone 4 from Radioshack for $260 after tax! So, if you have an iPhone 3GS in good condition, and your AT&T contract is up, then you should upgrade to an iPhone 4 and make $40 in the process. Cool!
So Radioshack is offering $50 off the price of an iPhone 4 for the next several days. As far as I can tell, the difference between the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3GS is not that great, so I’ve not really been that interested. But it got...
Read more →