A friend recently sent me and others a mail asking what sort of music we liked. As opposed to taking up a mail thread with my list, I decided to preserve one here for posterity. Read on:
C. elegans, a roundworm famous in genetics and histology studies, and perhaps the most thoroughly understood multicelluar organism known to science, has taught us a lot about life extension. Recent research has found that by adjusting the genes of C. elegans to inhibit insulin signaling and to remove the worm’s reproductive system multiples the worm’s [...]
Over the last few hours (Hey when you’re in the tao, you work late!), I’ve made extensive revisions to this site. I fixed the style switcher and installed it on all pages on this site. If you pick a style, thanks to cookies, it should persist on all pages until you decide to change it [...]
The acme of the CSS-fu, (Warning! the link that follows leads to a page that makes absolutely no sense in screen readers. Don’t bother; just get someone to tell you about it.) a house built purely of CSS rules and empty markup. I suppose you’d have to be a web designer to know the full [...]
Although I haven’t signed up with these folks, I think that mentally I’ve been a member of the Voluntary Human Extinction MovemenT (VHEMT) for many years now. We should stop breeding and get off the planet. That’s the only way the ecosystem is going to recover. I found these folks by way of this interesting [...]
Smarter people than me have been thinking about the separation of presentation and structure in Web documents in the last week. Some of these arguments seem like angels dancing on pinheads. For me it’s simple. The goal should be to organize and assemble your Web documents with the least amount of markup and code possible. [...]
There are still a few bugs to work out. For example, it’s not planting a cookie in my browsers. This needs to happen for the selected style to persist. I also have to install it for all the pages that are outside my web log script. Anyway, it works, sort of, Just invoke the link [...]
Okay. I just got wind that they are going to make a movie about a murder mystery in a future of ubiquitous robots. They’ve got the audacity to call it I, Robot. Now, I think it’s really cool that they’ve got Will Smith to play one of the lead characters in the movie. Hollywood’s portrayal [...]
When California passed its low-emission vehicle laws, I made a prediction: US auto makers would whine and drag their feet and then look really stupid as European and Asian car companies roared ahead with the necessary technology at competitive prices. Japanese hybrid cars are selling like gangbusters.