Monthly Archives: May 2001

Robots and Page Design

MEMS are miniature (centimeter sized) or microscopic (micron sized) robots and machines. MEMS technology can also be thought of as proto-nanotech because many of the control and software issues faced by MEMS engineers are very similar to those that will … Continue reading

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Ban the use of tables for layout!

Dotfile brings us, by way of A List Apart, this list of sites that don’t use tables for layout. Farlops Industries has been free of layout tables since late 1998. The ranks of CSS-only page designers are finally growing! Progress … Continue reading

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Foreshadowings of Nano?

Scientists in Tennessee have genetically engineered microcrobes to function like logic components in computer circuits. Now if they can just get them to work in colonies with specialized bacteria doing different functions, then we’d be getting somewhere.

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Is civilization speeding up?

I read James Gleick‘s Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything nearly a year ago and today I came across a skeptical review of a book with, in my mind, a similar theme. Is technical progress accelerating? An odd question … Continue reading

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A Note from One of Our Chief Scientists, Victor Von Doom

This is a public announcement! Do not enter the main factory! Apparently, a misplaced plutonium bolt has mutated serveral termites into giant, man-eating monsters! We repeat, do not enter the main factory building! Our last testing cow came out 30 … Continue reading

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I've decided to remove the karma votes feature

I did this because I was interested in what people have to say about about my entries. If they can just vote them up or down that really doesn’t give me any idea as to why they did so. Also … Continue reading

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Tubular!

Having explained two cunning workarounds, the Baka enabled Mr. Farlops to upload new content to the Fish Farm once again. Mr. Farlops finally gets to show the public the fruits of his many hours of testing and labor. Introducing the … Continue reading

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Remember that Scene in Superman?

Where the crook is climbing the office building with suction cups? Turns out that is not so far fetched. A German company by the name of Gekkomat has invented something like that. Of course this reprises my post about human … Continue reading

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The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul

Douglas Adams died of a heart attack on Friday, May the 11th. He was 49. First Joey Ramone and now this. My generation’s icons are getting whacked and it makes me feel old and mortal. Kinda ticked there wasn’t more … Continue reading

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New CSS Rules

I’ve developed some new CSS rules that work better in Mozilla and Netscape 6. I’ve tested them on my staging server but I can’t upload here until baka fixes the Fish Farm.

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