As most of the readers here know, my team has been working with new technology to extract, refine and exploit information that is all around us. We have named that technology Boomerang and one example of it is an application called Hardtack. We are approaching the 1 year anniversary of full scale data gathering with […]
When a science fiction author postulates some bizarre astronomical or planetary configuration, hordes of fans (and not a few scientists) will tsk-tsk, saying that such a system could never possibly exist. And then there’s this: A quartet of stars has been discovered in an intimate cosmic dance, swirling around each other within a region about […]
Ah a classic YouTube presentation. Thanks to the Fake Steve Jobs for making me aware of this.. The poor fellow from India does not seem to realize that someone has loaded up a swarm of Darth Vader samples and is playing them back.
Posted by Frank J over at IMAO: A reader of the Corner sent in an idea that I think was a pretty good suggestion: The Republicans stop their feuding and their fighting and combine announcing Fred Thompson as president, Mitt Romney as Vice President, McCain as Secretary of Defense, and Giuliani as Secretary of Homeland […]
Not that I ever did any ditch surfing, but that standing water in the roadside ditches…. I lived in Houston (actually, Clear Lake and League City) for two years and saw ditches like this filled with water like this a lot. Hat tip (again) to Dave Barry. ..bruce w..
Megan McArdle, my favorite blogging economist, has a lengthy, thoughtful analysis of what the retirement of the Baby Boomer generation may mean to America: As the Boomers age, they will consume fewer of the things that we produce efficiently, and more of the things that we provide relatively inefficiently. Productivity is notoriously difficult to project, […]
It’s even stranger than you think. Hat tip to Dave Barry. ..bruce w..
The Onion, not content with mere print/web journalism, has moved into video as well: In The Know: Are We Giving The Robots That Run Our Society Too Much Power? ..bruce w..
As noted in Works in Progress, I’m writing a book called Surviving Complexity, which deals with the challenges of IT development and deployment. Over at my personal website, I’ve posted material adapted from the first chapter of that book: In my forthcoming book, Surviving Complexity, the very first chapter is called “The Wetware Crisis”. This […]
Broken Primaries – Suggested Alternatives
I have been highly critical of the manner in which the US Presidential primaries are being conducted for the 2008 elections. In part because I believe, especially this time, that they are organized in such a way (and covered by the media in such a way) that the resulting nominee might be un-electable. It’s quite […]
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