Monthly Archives: March 2008
The Macbook Air Is Crap (Compared to the Technology in ‘Hackers’)
Last week I posted that really great quote about how 2001: A Space Odyssey predicted stupendously more impressive technology than we actually got in the year 2001, and that got me thinking about how totally lame the technology situation really … Continue reading
monoface
Design firm mono has an awesome page that lets you shuffle and mix-and-match pieces of some of their employees’ faces. It’s pretty much hours of entertainment. You can click on the face parts to cycle through the different peoples’, which … Continue reading
Protein Synthesis Interpretive Dance Video of the Day
Speaking of my college education, here’s a YouTube video made in 1971 that explains protein synthesis through interpretive dance. At 3:30 into the video the dance starts, and a great many balls are tripped. I bring this up to note … Continue reading
Quote: 2001 A Space Odyssey
According to this film, in year 2001 we would have had manned voyages to Jupiter, a battle of wits with a sentient computer, and a quantum leap in human evolution. Instead we got the Mir Space Station falling from the … Continue reading
Since We’re All Talking About Richard Dawkins These Days…
It looks like at least some good is coming from that Expelled nonsense — namely the free press for figures like Richard Dawkins and PZ Meyers. I’ll be totally honest with you: I have no idea who PZ Meyers is. … Continue reading