Progress continues to be made on robot cars–cars that drive themselves. Like I’ve said many times, human are just not reliable enough to be put in charge of a tonne or so of steel and plastic.
Displaying the most recent of 533 posts written by
Pace Arko
I ain’t a libertarian
On Saturday, I was very glad that I don’t have a television. There’s nothing worse than hearing the same thing over and over. I didn’t learn about the disintegration of the Columbia Shuttle until at least 6 or so hours after the fact. Getting my news via the Internet allowed me a necessary distance from [...]
I’ve been thinking of putting rough summaries of my tabletop gaming sessions in this web log of mine. It would help me to fill the days when I don’t have any content worth putting here and it would draw many of my friends to my site.
Wanna play some four-dimensional tetris? Experts say that tissue engineering will make repair of spinal injuries routine within a decade. Obviously repairing spinal injuries is easier then playing 4-D tetris.
Someone hacks one of those robot vacuum cleaners. Just in time for the next war, EMP weapons. This isn’t a surprise since EMP weapons are actually pretty cheap and within the means of developing countries. Yep, those spammers are getting pretty tricky. Here’s a neat little Flash puzzle toy. Using smart gels and modified ink [...]
Mr. Farlops begs thee to read Perdido Street Station and The Scar by China Mieville.
In honor of MLK day, a little Get Your War On.
My site has become a minor example of table-free, three column layout. Just yesterday I learned who created the Dr. Who theme music way back in 1963: Delia Derbyshire. Ms. Derbyshire, a scholar of music, mathematics and electronics, was one of the early pioneers of electronic music. Someone notes my complaints about Flash.
So I got flattened by a chest cold and only now have I got the motivation to write here again. Computational biology develops computer models of bacteria sophisticated enough allow us to predict evolution. Anyway, I discovered one of my pages appearing in someone’s hotlist. PCWorld has some suggestions about how to recycle old hardware. [...]