Author Archives: Pace Arko

Molding Chips, Surprising Cybernetics and New Drugs for Nerds

Fearing for its life, a robot escapes the tumult of an artificial ecosystem. Or that’s one way of interpreting something that probably was an accident. Research develops a method that may shrink silicon chip features a hundred fold by eliminating … Continue reading

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Happy Fishbowls, Snow Crystals and Fame

Remember when Sony sold that infrared camera that rendered some clothing transparent? Well, it turns out that government is working on cameras and sensing technology, using light in the terahertz range, just below infrared, that also renders clothing transparent. If … Continue reading

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Transformers, Web Design and ASCII Art

Web building: The Web Standards Project is kicking bottom and taking names again. This time it’s personal. Some guy named Mark Pilgrim discusses why web sites and weblogs should be accessible by telling stories of users with screen readers and … Continue reading

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A revised list of things that I am interested in

Cartooning. I know I am too old to start a career in cartooning. Creating an compelling RPG background. Again, perhaps as 40 year-old single man, this might be highly suspect but there it is. I have the spare time–sort of. … Continue reading

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Cosmology, Lego and Haptics

New results in eschatological cosmology: it’s good to be in an accelerating universe. As still more evidence on why I think Africa is an ideal place for a cyberpunk novel, I cite Nigeria’s has a straight-to-video film industry. Andrew Lipson, … Continue reading

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Stupid Computer Tricks: Multi-booting NT, 9x and Linux

Again in the endeavor to make this site useful to Web developers, I present the following experiences in making an Intel/AMD multi-boot different OSes and file systems. I plan to revise this article extensively as time goes on and I … Continue reading

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Radio by photolith, forensics, Web comics as unintentional biography

May was a very busy month for me so, most of the entries this month consisted of links with little commentary. (Actually now that I think of it most of my journal consists of this type of entry.) And this … Continue reading

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Nanotech–a cakewalk for piracy? And stupid CSS tricks!

Accessibility: Google adds keyboard accessibility to their interface. In an accessibility setback, naive page designers are incorrectly using CSS to replace of semantically correct markup. I myself complained about related CSS risks over a year ago. Security: No, you are … Continue reading

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Can advertising work in these modern times?

So I just read the PBS is in a decline now that cable has stolen away some it’s audience with high quality, yet ad supported content–A&E, AMC, the History Channel, etc. Also I’ve read a good summary about how some … Continue reading

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Accessibility technology

A researcher over in the University of Maryland dismisses claims that voice input will be the interface of the future. With the release of OS X, Apple begins to take accessibility seriously again. And, Farlops updates his article about accesskey. … Continue reading

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