Blogging me softly

29 Feb 2004
I'm listening to what?

20:35 I'd seen it happen on iChat, but Jim finally clued me in. This little gadget updates your iChat status with just about anything that's dynamic - like your iTunes current track, for example. As the shift-Exposé fkey trick; pointless in a cool sort of way.

27 Feb 2004
Thesauri

14:20 So Charles found me another cool toy. It's a Visual Thesaurus. A brilliant idea, but the Java is a bit clunky here. And not a llama in sight!

23 Feb 2004
Silencing the opposition

12:46 Charles writes,
[. . . .]the sheeple in the US just let them get away with it. Clearly they're not content with having the highest child poverty and highest infant mortality rate in the developed world, now they're aiding and abetting environmental destruction and mass poisoning by stealth as well..

Harsh words. But are they justified? If this report is to be believed, then they're not harsh enough. If true, then this blatant perversion is on a par with the selective science carried out in Nazi Germany.

John Marburger has a right to be troubled; and he should take notice of what they're saying. We live in neither Nazi Germany (didn't they increase science spending too?) nor communist Russia, and distorting and suppressing findings that contradict administration policies [and] stacking panels with like-minded and underqualified scientists with ties to industry ain't science.

20 Feb 2004
Googlewhacked

16:08 extracellular frottage. Which sounds like it might make sense (tally).

19 Feb 2004
Stairway to Heaven

10:18 Space elevators - thanks to the wonder of nanotubes, no longer the dream of science fiction but an achievable goal. Next stop, Ringworld

19 Feb 2004
Birds and bees

10:15 Now you know how baby aeroplanes are made (a surprisingly work-safe image).

13 Feb 2004
Val Untine

13:09 Oh wow. Did you ever see anything so pretty? More from NASA.

05 Feb 2004
Confusion

14:35 Yes, it's all very tragic, but it really ticks me off when people can't tell the difference between the Internet and the WWW. And the guy is obviously sick: The WWW didn't cause that, though - certain sites may have fuelled it, I'll grant you. It's all too easy to blame the internet [sic] and gloss over the real problems that society has.

05 Feb 2004
Two to beam up

14:32 It's not just me, is it? It is Patrick Stewart, yes?

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