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So I’m quoted, or rather my alter-ego is quoted, talking about drugs that boost certain limited aspects of intelligence. This, in all things, in Spin Magazine–tsk, tsk. Ah me, famous at last.

DARPA researchers develop a
method to accelerate our ability to sift through visual data. If you’re caught on video, they will find you a lot faster now.

IBM astounds the world by supposedly inventing a new use for class and id attributes in markup. Web technicians, who’ve been hacking various ways to do this for about five years now, are shocked.

Speaking vaguely of which, here’s a method (Which I’ve known about for year now.) for future-proofing style on XHTML1.1 documents. (Or sending XHTML1 as XML instead of text.)

A scientist works out a clever way to use bacteriorhodopsin as a new data storage method. Potentially optical disks using such a technique could have capacities of up to 50TiB! The mind reels.

At the turn of the previous century, progressive, public-spirited thinking, increased public health by providing common, free sources of clean, potable water from fountains in every public space in the industrialized world. In the post-industrial world, however, they make us pay for it.

Recent research with an autistic savant may give us some clues about the remarkable talents of these people.

Tissue engineering marches ever onwards: We’ve figured out how to coax heart and brain tissues to regenerate and repair themselves.