Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 26th, 2004
A year ago I wrote about hybrid electric cars and the statement “that which gets measured improves.” If you put a meter on your car, on your calorie intake, on your television usage, on anything really, you start paying attention to your behavior and you can’t help but change your habits of consumption. If only [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2004
Cory Doctorow, a science fiction novelist, also happens to be the most prolific of the gang behind powerblog BoingBoing. He’s just released a new book, Eastern Standard Tribe, and made the full text available online.
I can’t vouch for the book, but from another site I came across an intriguing way to read it. I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 20th, 2004
Someone has gone to the trouble to translate Harry Potter into ancient Greek, so it shouldn’t surprise you that there are news services out there that specialize in delivering the news in Latin, or rather the nuntii Latini. The Finnish radio network YLE started it off many years ago, and now with the advent of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 17th, 2004
Not that he would ever stoop to drinking Americano, but things are percolating again over at the CoffeeCzar’s place. Follow him to interesting places like the Takagism Crimson Room puzzle and Chris Pratley’s blog for enlightening discussions about bugs and product design from inside the throbbing heart of Microsoft.
Read the CoffeeCzar’s blog and encourage [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 13th, 2004
Here is a site entitled Did you ever wonder what it would be like to see a water balloon pop in space? I have to confess that I never did, but having once seen the title, I was consumed by a desire to see what it would be like to see a water balloon pop [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 12th, 2004
There are Star Chambers and there are Star Chambers. Maybe you’re thinking of the 1983 film starring Michael Douglas. Or maybe you’re actually thinking of the old original Court of Star Chamber. Then there is, of course, this humble site, whose moniker grew out of a running joke among four friends across many Tuesday night [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2004
I’ve been having some problems with posting comments to my site. Something to do with “Date” objects not being created. I even lost a few of my posts in a most mysterious fashion. If you posted a comment that coughed up an error message and failed to appear, I’m sorry about that. I’m still waiting [...]
Posted in Biology on Feb 6th, 2004
Lenticulars, also known as “winkies”, are those goofy quasi-3D plastic gimcracks that are good for two-step animations showing things like Jesus looking up to heaven or dancing girls wiggling their hips. I never thought they’d be useful for anything but cheesy gimmicks. But they turn out to have numerous cheese-free applications in the modern world. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 4th, 2004
Amazon likes to recommend books to you using a phrase like this: “Customers who bought Ferret Husbandry also bought Ferrets for Dummies.” Jumping from book to book like this, you can build a web of interconnected books. What can you learn from such a network? And is there a market for a book called The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 2nd, 2004
About this sturdy rodent (Marmota monax a.k.a. whistle-pig) pivots all of winter. You’re safely through the first half by now. How much more of this blasted cold must we endure? I don’t know about where you are, but we’ve had the 2nd coldest January on record here, so I am happy to indulge in Old [...]
