Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 6th, 2004
I’m currently reading Albert Speer’s Inside the Third Reich. It’s a remarkably personal take on what it was like to be around Hitler between 1933 and 1945. In the book, Hermann Goering comes off as such a pompous buffoon that it’s hard to believe he was Hitler’s hand-picked successor. I wanted to learn a little [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 4th, 2004
Years ago I was in church watching an organist perform, and as he reached a feverish crescendo in the piece I said to myself, “Wow, he’s really pulling out all the stops.” It was only at that moment that I realized this was the literal origin of that particular figure of speech. Every time I [...]
