Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 11th, 2002
What was the dang deal with Charles Babbage, anyway? Crank or genius? Get the short version of the story with this review of The Difference Engine, a book about Babbage, his almost-but-not-quite marvelous machine, and how they actually built a genuine working version in the 21st century.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 11th, 2002
I’m listening to some tapes by Robert Greenberg (available from the Teaching Company) on the history of music. They’re very entertaining… I hadn’t realized, for example, how significant opera was in the development of many other musical forms like oratorio and sonata form. Then I remembered that there was somebody else I had heard on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 8th, 2002
PC Forum organizer Esther Dyson has some choice words about blogging during conference talks at the PC Forum. The big idea is that people can use a Wi-Fi network to blog about a talk in real time to the whole world. What does this mean? Esther says: “In some sense, the power of the conference [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 5th, 2002
From BoingBoing I found this cool pointer to the DOE Photo Library of atmospheric nuclear tests. I find these pictures utterly mesmerizing. I am can’t stop wondering about what it must have been like to witness some of these big boys. The atmospheric H-bomb shots in the Pacific are the creepiest of all. Consider
Castle Bravo, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 4th, 2002
The Atlantic has another good issue this month. Besides the article on complexity and simulation, there’s a great piece by Amy Bloom on the odd plight of heterosexual cross-dressers. Among such men, there is an unusually high proportion of former Marines. Not clear why.
