As I’m typing this, I’m looking over my shoulder and watching a live HD transmission from the International Space Station (being carried on the Discovery HD Theater channel). Of course, NASA is managing to make it a bit dull (I’m not really interested in what the astronauts eat, at least not for a limited-time HD […]
From Slashdot comes a link to this postmortem by the Princeton University team competing in the DARPA Grand Challenge for autonomous vehicles: It was the closest thing to a memory leak that you can have in a “managed” language. C# manages your memory for you by watching the objects you create. When your code no […]
…from Megan McArdle, who is currently traveling through both countries: For some of the people around Ho Chi Minh City, of course, we were the good guys in the war; I spoke to a fair number of people who had relatives who had fled to the States after fighting on the South’s side in the […]
It seems that little maniac that tried to take over Europe some 70 years or so ago was a notorious farter. His gas was so epic in fact that it may have played a role in Germany losing World War II (if so it would be a possible to assume that flatulence is a force […]
OK, I’m not a big Katie Couric fan, and I think her poor ratings at the CBS Evening News have nothing to do with sexism and have a lot to do with her just being the wrong choice for the spot. But this makes me like her a whole lot more: If you don’t get […]
The Cal band (Berkley) is famous for half time shows from its crazed marching band. Now for your entertainment, Cal’s band brings you interpretations of some well loved video games. Simply amazing. Note: My nephew Ian Henderson attends Berkley and is a rabid computer fiend from an early age. I have no idea if he […]
The W.A.T.C.H. “2007 Worst Toys List“. After all, I have 10 grandkids (and two more on the way) to think of. The “Jack Sparrow’s Spinning Dagger” looks especially cool. ..bruce w.. P.S. “W.A.T.C.H.”? Didn’t acronyms with periods after each letter go out with U.N.C.L.E.?
I have become aware of a website known as Wikileaks, “a place for journalists, truth tellers and everybody else”. Taking a look at the site, it claims to provide an uncensorable system for safe mass document leaking. Ok, there are times when this can be a vital tool to blow open a coverup. They also […]
I’ll bet. The American Society of Civil Engineers is demanding that a video spoofing their investigation of the levee failures in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina be removed from YouTube: A long-simmering dispute about whether a leading engineering organization whitewashed the role of the Army Corps of Engineers in the failure of the levee system […]
When I first saw the headline on the front page of the on-line edition of the Rocky Mountain News — “No more competition: Boulder says bye-bye to valedictorians” — it sound like yet again a case of political correctness and self-esteemism run amok in our public schools. However, much to my pleasant surprise, when I […]
