Category Archives: Miscellaneous

By way of Stephen’s Web comes Quality Tips for Webmasters, a short list of simple yet powerful ways to improve your site accessibility, usability and ease of maintenance. Neat, energy efficient gadgets (by way of Metafilter.) From the starving, yet … Continue reading →

Some cat from Japan has worked out how to get Excel’s grid of cells to play Pac-man and Space Invaders. Apparently a group of artists and technicians over in the UK are exploring the difference between noise and information. I … Continue reading →

In nanotech news, Drexler and Smalley throw down some fearsome science as they debate the validity of mechanosynthesis. In my opinion, Drexler won it. Christie’s actions off an ancient Roman twenty sider. Let’s see–they had pewter for figs, they could … Continue reading →

This is just wrong Umberto Eco talks the future of books in a world of pervasive information technology. A nice outline of David Hilbert (Of Hilbert’s Hotel fame) 23 problems in mathematics showing their status as solved or unsolved.

The acme of the CSS-fu, (Warning! the link that follows leads to a page that makes absolutely no sense in screen readers. Don’t bother; just get someone to tell you about it.) a house built purely of CSS rules and … Continue reading →

Although I haven’t signed up with these folks, I think that mentally I’ve been a member of the Voluntary Human Extinction MovemenT (VHEMT) for many years now. We should stop breeding and get off the planet. That’s the only way … Continue reading →

A little fireworks java applet for ya! Courtesy of da Lawman!

I worked at the Lazy M Ranch in one capacity or another for four years and I saw first hand how the best brains of my time were warped beyond all recognition while there. As an example of this, allow … Continue reading →

Progress continues to be made on robot cars–cars that drive themselves. Like I’ve said many times, human are just not reliable enough to be put in charge of a tonne or so of steel and plastic.