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Posted in Uncategorized on May 30th, 2003
Moore’s Law has exerted a strange pull on the modern psyche for the past dozen years or so. What was once simply a statistical prediction has become a mythological imperative with the apparent force of physical law. For years it was an exciting harbinger of progress, but recently it has taken on a darker tone, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2003
As part of my cleanup work over the weekend, I was trying to untangle some Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) problems I was having with my blog. The problem goes like this: any element on your page, like a block of text, can inherit a property, like its color or its font size, from any of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25th, 2003
Happy Memorial Day!
I’ve spent a some time in the last few days remembering and cleaning up a lot of old stuff around the site. Now all the styles should be pointing at the same style sheet for a least a modicum of consistency. Also, I have dusted off the page where I list all the [...]
Posted in Language on May 21st, 2003
I’ve always been interested in semiotics, but I find most discussions of it ridiculously abstract and off-putting. Then one day I’m searching for something random (”images of cartoon hands”) and Google lands me on this Semiotics for Beginners page. It is what it says: an introduction, lucid and enjoyable, to the quicksand world of semiotics. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19th, 2003
The two most valuable new developments in internet software in the last five years are blogging and wiki. They are both fundamentally new forms that arise because publishing is now extremely cheap. Blogging gives a voice to one person, whereas wiki gives a voice to a community. Blogging is certainly the better known of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15th, 2003
After I read JMike’s gambit comment here, I started poking around some more about the etymology of the word gambero. Gambero is the Italian word for prawn or shrimp, and gamba is the word for leg. I was convinced that it must derive from “that little feller with all them wiggly legs.” My web research [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11th, 2003
No.
But as I learned from Mad Scientist Mike Onken, some Sulawesi Macaques at the Paignton Zoo Environmental Park have been employed to see if the reverse was true, putting to the test the old adage “Give a million monkeys enough time and they will write the complete works blah blah blah adf;j;as hbanana [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9th, 2003
Carolyn Lewis GulleyBorn 4:50 PM, May 8th, 2003.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2003
You really owe it to yourself to try this out: Dave’s Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar
I originally saw this on the Joel on Software site where Joel was touting it as an incredibly cool and useful too. I downloaded it, and sure enough, it’s been the best addition to my computer in the last year. [...]
Posted in Biology on May 5th, 2003
In my last entry, I mentioned that you can print out DNA for viruses and genetic programs. You can, for example, order genes printed to your specifications at Blue Heron Biotechnology. But you can also print out large 3-D models of molecules, avoiding the hassle of those crappy kits from organic chemistry class. Through the [...]
