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Yearly Archives: 2001
Artificial life was just a phrase twenty years ago.
This article is a little old but I didn’t have my journal script in place then. Still, it’s interesting and it’s early in the morning (a little insomnia) so I decided to point to it. Basically biologists and bio-engineers are … Continue reading
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You learn somethin' new everyday
Even in HTML. I consider myself pretty experienced with this stuff but today I found something about the BASE element that I didn’t know before. I found this striking because I have a lot of internal links in my journal … Continue reading
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Some weird links sent to me by friends
Mr. Gamut sent me a story about a boyscout who tried to build a breeder reactor in his mother’s backyard shed. Lord Odinmank sent me the result of using Lego to pry into secrets humanity was not meant to know. … Continue reading
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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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