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Category Archives: Science and Engineering
News Links for Nanotech
I’ll probably have sidebar RSS feeds one day but until then, here they are: Nano news from around the planet as compiled by Google. The earliest entries at Nanodot. News on nanotech and MEMS as compiled by SmallTimes. Gina Miller’s … Continue reading
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Backlinking, is there are better way?
Happy Halloween! Anyway, while reading the redesigned Blogdex, I came across an article about backlinking and web logs. This interested me so I figured I’d add a little heat and noise to the conversation. So far as I know, there … Continue reading
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Junkbuster Update and the Human Clock
Privoxy is the geek’s tool (Read that as, “you have to have a vague understanding how HTTP and proxies work in order to use it.”) for combating popups and other forms of obnoxious Web advertising. It is a revision of … Continue reading
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A better keyboard and MEMS
Can’t think of anything compelling to write today so, I offer the following: Peter Klausler attempts to answer the following question: Could an evolutionary design algorithm and a huge input sample discover a better keyboard arrangement? While not quite nanotech, … Continue reading
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Radio-acoustic shaping and space elevators
New Scientist details a microgravity construction technique that uses radio waves and interference patterns to shape clouds of small particles into solid objects. I imagine by the time this technique becomes widely used, it will be supplemented with zillions of … Continue reading
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Announcing a new policy here at Factory Floor
As you may see, looking over the archive, I am not a very frequent poster to my log. I want to change this. I hereby promise to write at least one entry every weekday from here in. I may even … Continue reading
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Microsoft, Wired and Standards
Microsoft, in a reactionary and cowardly refurbish, refuses to take a step forward to support web accessibility. Most of its pages don’t validate to standard. Wired Magazine, on the other hand, boldly shows the rest of the world that designing … Continue reading
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I really should be working
I’ve still got a ton of things I should be doing for work but a friend of mine introduced a new toy to me–Knoppix. Knoppix is a distro of Linux that runs entirely from a CD so, there is no … Continue reading
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Flying Robots, Hilbert's Hotel and Droplets of Pitch
One link about computer security, another link about computer security and a third link about computer security. A valid trick to hide CSS rules from Opera. Building your own DVR. I talked about building a softwareDVR over a year ago. … Continue reading
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Scientists Build Polio Virus From Scratch
As has already been made plain by the advances of the XX century, individuals are gaining a greater ability to do greater damage over a larger area. And a few months ago this trend took a dangerous step forward. In … Continue reading
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