Mentioned on slashdot
Well, we haven't been slashdotted per se, but someone on slashdot did post a comment some hours back (in response...
Clone of the Attack
Since I've seen this on a mailing list twice in the past 24 hours, I suspect everyone else has seen...
Big Science
Recently picked up Laurie Anderson's seminal album Big Science on CD, and "O Superman" just came on iTunes. I've been...
Pampling the moose
I got curious about the origin of pamplemousse; it seemed clear that it came from pample+mousse, and so I wondered...
Naming notes
Oops—I left the name Eeyore out of the list of possible heffalump names. Sorry about that. The place where the...
Infinite anniversary!
Happy first birthday to The Infinite Matrix! They've posted new material every weekday for a full year now, and new...
Monkey helpers
This is mighty impressive: Helping Hands, an organization that trains capuchin monkeys to help quadriplegic people. The video clip linked...
Timewasters
I should have spent this morning editing. And I did a little editing, but I also fell afoul of a...
Heffalump naming vote
There was recently an article in some major local paper (perhaps the Chronicle?) about the recent trend toward giving human...
News briefs
Assorted items gleaned from cnn.com and elsewhere today: I always thought it would be cool to network together the Sim...
Filtering
It occurs to me that this news probably hasn't been spread as widely as it should've been: there was a...
Mediated reality
I'm most of the way through A Deepness in the Sky; I'll have more to say about it eventually. But...