[Still procrastinating…] I was drawn to this Wired article by the title, Russian Cosmonaut’s Blog Much Funnier Than NASA. But it was the flying cross that caught my attention. Cool, eh? The blog, as translated by Russia Today, includes pictures from the ISS — and covers a much different array of […]
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One of our college paper reporters interviewed me earlier this week for his story on the “dangers” of twittering and social media. The study was reported by CNN (I cannot find the full study to…study) and many have pointed out the irony of that report since news outlets like CNN […]
This is a fun game (that I got no where near to solving) from Wired.com. One hint: Dr and Doctor fans have the best chance of figuring out the puzzle. Each human head you see here mashes up the mugs of two stars from a movie or a TV show. […]
A HT to @samharrelson for pointing out this story. My views may surprise some. The story is this: STALLINGS, N.C. (AP) — Most churches want them turned off, but one North Carolina church encouraged its members to use their cell phones, BlackBerrys and other devices to help spread the word […]
Using nuclear warheads for peaceful purposes, but mostly blowing up stuff. Wired has this very interesting article of proposed and tired non-military uses for nukes. After all, as they put it, we have over 23,000 warheads, why not put them to use? As Livermore Lab physicist Edward Teller, known as […]
I used Nisus Writer (the old one) for my doctoral thesis and book and before NW Pro for Intel came out I used Mellel and contributed to their beta. Both developers have always been very helpful and friendly. Now I am happily using NWP (even for most of my Word […]
We have Comcast highspeed cable with a decent sized network in the house, both wired and wireless. I was testing its speed tonight with Speedtest.net. Wireless: Via an 802.11g AirportExtreme base station to a MacBook Pro: Wired: through the base station and a router to a MacPro G5 (quad): Not […]
This is the last project my father worked on in his career with NASA. This year is the 10th birthday of the station, although it continues to grow and be rebuilt. CNET has some great photos. The space station as it looked in August 2005. For most of its habitable […]
Testing a WordPress plugin called “Smart YouTube” for, you guessed it, adding YouTube videos to the blog with full functionality. (BTW, I have no idea what this song is about, but the video is very cool. Apparently “pikapika” is an onomatopoeia in Japanese for “electric sparkling” hence the images in […]
My brother put up this post the other day after I was showing him the power of Delicious Library. This is a fantastic app where you simply put your ISBN bar code of a book in front of your Mac’s camera and it reads it, searches Amazon, and reads out […]