Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Neat Stuff

Here are two reasons why my decision to finally get DSL was a good thing: Giant Robot Wallace and Gromit take to the Web Another article on limb amplification. Part of a series. I don’t know how to drive but … Continue reading

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Two neat pages I just couldn't pass up.

Remember wrist rockets? They were hand catapults braced against the wrist for better leverage. Anyway, there is now a company that sells wristwatches with tiny catapults that fire tiny copper beads. Playing with one of these in a company meeting … Continue reading

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Links! Links! Links!

Remember when I mentioned the solar chimney? Well it’s in the news again. Found another article about bringing the Internet to the citizens of developing countries. While at the same time many problems remain. Scientists figure out a way to … Continue reading

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"…the hours in an offhand way."

Another link round up: Yahoo bought GeoCities and got WebRing as an afterthought. Now, a year later they’ve sold WebRing. Not that anybody really cared being that lots of imitations sprung up after Yahoo bought it. People decided that the … Continue reading

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Ho. ho. ho.

I notice that I am not a daily poster in this web log. I tend to hold off on things until I have something interesting to write about and even then most of the links here are dreck anyway. I … Continue reading

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Some Interesting Stuff My Friends Sent Me

The Mir incinerated many months ago but a friend sent me an old page about about a mold that lived off the glass, metal, cosmonaut detritus and synthetic materials of the Mir station. I remember reading about a mold that … Continue reading

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Links! Links! Links!

Most of this I already know but for you, here is a primer on how to use proxies to hide the IP address of your machine. Reuters released a story about beakers full of DNA used in parallel computing processes, … Continue reading

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Yet another link round up

After a brief flurry of interest in the early nineties, haptics, telepresence and VR have continued to quietly advance. Of course the Department of Defense has been spending a lot of money on this research. In order to buy itself … Continue reading

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Insomnia

I found all these links over the last month or so. I couldn’t sleep so I decided to post them here. I don’t own a mobile phone. I don’t get enough calls to merit the expense. But I found an … Continue reading

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Another Useless Word

After a day of dinking around with PHP script on one of my client’s servers and just a few minutes ago after reading a page, I came across the the word “technologist.” I realized then that I hated this word. … Continue reading

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