Archive for the ‘ tech ’ Category
So I’ve been watching a lot of videos from TED recently; I posted one about historical levels of violence to my tumblelog a couple of days ago. Another interesting one is this bubbly talk about dictionaries: She makes a lot of interesting points, but I couldn’t help noticing she also makes a common blunder: she states that [ READ MORE ]
Hot tip: although I don’t post long text passages here on my blog all that often, I do add my own bits and pieces of fluff to these vast intarwebs fairly often. I post pictures to Flickr, links to del.icio.us, books to Vox, tiny text updates to Twitter… It turns out there’s a pretty good way [ READ MORE ]
So I’ve posted before about such transhumanist ideas as adding new senses and other abilities, and specifically about a lab at Duke where they teach monkeys to use a robot arm as if it were their own appendage, based solely on brain wave readings. That is, the robot arm is running on the monkey’s [ READ MORE ]
You would not believe how often people mess up my name. How is “Jack” a difficult thing to remember? I get enough mentions in Mother Goose rhymes and popular slang, heaven knows. I just got an email — sent to a work address that begins with “jack-pinette”, and in response to a short [ READ MORE ]
So I was forwarded a link to a paper on the Educause web site, a paper that I would like to read as it has some bearing on a project I’m working on. Educause is a nonprofit group that does work relating to IT in higher education, and my institution is a member. [ READ MORE ]
If you haven’t yet, you should really check out Google Maps. It’s relatively new, but much better than Yahoo’s version, and stinky old Mapquest isn’t even in the same league. The initial coolness of Google’s version of the tired old map-’n'-driving-directions concept was that you could click and drag the map around, and have it [ READ MORE ]
I just can’t stop posting about the crazy crap I find in my referrer logs. It appears that someone — about 9 years old, I’m inclined to guess — went to ask.com and searched for “What’s the real word for poop”. The current result (view by clicking the link above) has a post of Holly’s in second [ READ MORE ]