Author Archives: Pace Arko

A very inspirational day of browsing the Web

Posted on June 13, 2001 by Pace Arko

Found a lot of good sites on Mozilla’s implementation of the DOM. Something, with lots of good examples, that was very hard for me to find a few months ago. Now, after nearly a year’s procrastination, I can finally start … Continue reading →

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And it's not even a very interesting prime at that

Posted on June 12, 2001 by Pace Arko

According to United States law, certain prime numbers are illegal.

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Neat little single panel Web comic I found.

Posted on June 11, 2001 by Pace Arko

What I need is some more commentary on this site. Hmm. Maybe I should have two sites. A personal site and professional site. Have to think about that. Anyway, in the spirit of Gary Larson, B Kliban and Gahan Wilson … Continue reading →

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Artificial life was just a phrase twenty years ago.

Posted on June 11, 2001 by Pace Arko

This article is a little old but I didn’t have my journal script in place then. Still, it’s interesting and it’s early in the morning (a little insomnia) so I decided to point to it. Basically biologists and bio-engineers are … Continue reading →

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You learn somethin' new everyday

Posted on June 7, 2001 by Pace Arko

Even in HTML. I consider myself pretty experienced with this stuff but today I found something about the BASE element that I didn’t know before. I found this striking because I have a lot of internal links in my journal … Continue reading →

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Some weird links sent to me by friends

Posted on June 5, 2001 by Pace Arko

Mr. Gamut sent me a story about a boyscout who tried to build a breeder reactor in his mother’s backyard shed. Lord Odinmank sent me the result of using Lego to pry into secrets humanity was not meant to know. … Continue reading →

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Robots and Page Design

Posted on May 31, 2001 by Pace Arko

MEMS are miniature (centimeter sized) or microscopic (micron sized) robots and machines. MEMS technology can also be thought of as proto-nanotech because many of the control and software issues faced by MEMS engineers are very similar to those that will … Continue reading →

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Ban the use of tables for layout!

Posted on May 30, 2001 by Pace Arko

Dotfile brings us, by way of A List Apart, this list of sites that don’t use tables for layout. Farlops Industries has been free of layout tables since late 1998. The ranks of CSS-only page designers are finally growing! Progress … Continue reading →

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Foreshadowings of Nano?

Posted on May 29, 2001 by Pace Arko

Scientists in Tennessee have genetically engineered microcrobes to function like logic components in computer circuits. Now if they can just get them to work in colonies with specialized bacteria doing different functions, then we’d be getting somewhere.

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Is civilization speeding up?

Posted on May 29, 2001 by Pace Arko

I read James Gleick‘s Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything nearly a year ago and today I came across a skeptical review of a book with, in my mind, a similar theme. Is technical progress accelerating? An odd question … Continue reading →

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