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Sunday, September 14th, 2008Recently I signed up for Geni, a family tree building website, after reading an article about it on TechCrunch.
Coincidentally, TED released a video at around the same time, which I just caught today:
This talk is by one of my favorite scientists, Spencer Wells, who wrote The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey, which is also […]
Wow
Sunday, March 30th, 2008This technology will change the world. Amazing.
Currently the inventors of this technology are looking to give the power of speech to the vocally disabled. However the possibilities for us all are endless… from a new way to hold a private conversation to changing the channel on your TV without lifting a finger. Imagine being able […]
Religion - as Natural as Cows?
Saturday, March 29th, 2008Yet another good TED video about the “design” of modern religions as a case for studying all religions through a scientific lens:
I Am Legend
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007Two weeks ago I saw I Am Legend, the movie. Last week I read I Am Legend, the novella.
After reading the book, I was surprised my the dissimilarities between the stories. The movie is so different from the book that it may as well have had a different name. There are some common elements, but […]
Kindle
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007Today I went to Amazon.com to do a little holiday shopping and the home page was a note about a new gadget called Kindle.
This thing looks so cool!
You can purchase books right from the device without WiFi, read blogs, and lookup words you don’t know. The display is about as paper-like as you can […]
Phantome PMS?
Friday, November 16th, 2007I’m starting to agree with Scott Adams that we are all moist robots.
Human Computation
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007WARNING: The following post is very, very nerdy.
Luis von Ahn, inspired by the clever pornographers that defeated captchas, has come up with some amazingly simple and effective ways to get humans to analyze data that computers can’t… for free.
Next time you feel like playing Solitaire, why not play one of Luis von Ahn’s games?
Feed the War Machine
Monday, July 30th, 2007Not feeling so great about income taxes today, I researched a bit of history and found this video:
There, now I feel better. Wait… no I don’t.
The Simpsons
Friday, July 27th, 2007Oh, how I love The Simpsons. I’m going to see the movie tonight, despite that I feel destined for disappointment. Will it be all a Simpsons movie could be? Probably not.
But any way…
What I really like about The Simpsons is it’s irreverence towards… everything. One of my favorite moments is this song, sung my Mr. […]
Ideas to die for
Sunday, July 8th, 2007Dan Dennett talks about toxic memes and their virus-like ability to wipe out entire cultures. Dennett’s assertion that memes are, in some cases (communism, capitalism, Islam, Catholicism, and many more), essentially deadly parasites is an interesting perspective.
As interesting as Dennett’s ideas are, I tend to take a more simplistic view. While memes may be wiping […]
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