“Firefox can block ads, so we’re blocking anyone using Firefox from seeing our pages at all.” Priceless. Nevermind the fact that the User Agent Switcher extension means that Firefox can appear to be any other browser, easily bypassing this kind of block. I can understand why people would want to do this, but they’ll need [...]
Archive of entries posted on August 2007
Last Week’s Skype Outage
The explanation has been posted: it was all Microsoft’s fault. This will not affect my use of Skype. It’s a great money-saving tool, but I always have a backup. [Correction, it wasn't Microsoft's fault, they just caused it. ]
Preparing to LISP
Greenspun’s Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. — Philip Greenspun Including Common Lisp. — Robert Morris I’ve been working on a top-secret, ultra-hush-hush project for my company for several years now — so secret that I can [...]
“Mini-Telescope Implants May Save Vision Damaged by Eye Disease”
Those of you who know GoddessJ and myself personally, also know that GoddessJ has a hereditary eye problem. That’s why I’m so interested in vision technology stories, like this one. Of course, I’d be interested in this one regardless, because this kind of enhancement technology is also used in many science fiction stories, and even [...]
“Neurobiologists jam brain’s ‘memory machine’”
Yet more memory tricks, courtesy of your local mad scientist. Now if only they could help me remember things, as well as forgetting them…
Neat and Possibly Useful How-To Tricks
From the Lifehacker site, a virtual smörgÃ¥sbord of interesting how-to guides: how to turn a flashlight into a hand-held burning laser (and excellent match-replacement); how to get rid of sweat stains; how to pick locks; how to use a wristwatch as a compass; and how to disable the annoying Windows “restart now or we’ll do [...]
“Kooky lawsuit against NFL quarterback: ‘$63,000,000,000 Billion’”
Maybe I just don’t see the humor, but this just strikes me as sad. This guy is obviously a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
“Paper battery offers future power”
In an exciting technology announcement, Professor Robert Linhardt of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute says that his team has created a battery out of nothing but paper, carbon nanotubes, and an electrolyte fluid! Even if it were perfect, it wouldn’t be available for years yet. But this is just the kind of battery technology that we [...]
“Girl overdoses on espresso coffee”
Too much of a good thing.
“Dreamy Lunar Eclipse” Coming August 28th!
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