So, once again Google has been beaten to a good idea. What’s best is they just snatched it but could not even make that good.
Overtime, I am beginning to be a little disappointed in Google and its strategies. Anyway, read this article on google’s use (or failure to) of stumbleupon-like technology. Also some links youmight want to visit are the GigaOM post about this and Google’s own explanation about this.
By the way, I’ve installed this dice thing. And, alas, uninstalled it already - worthless compared with StumbleUpon.
So, macs are all-that and a bag of chips, huh? Really? Yeah, right!
I’ve been saying this for a long time… One of the main reason nobody wants to hack them is mainly because there are so few. One other reason… Go to your coffee shop and look at what these people have open on their mac laptop. iTunes, iVideo, i*** - all mac tools. Even with that, apparently macs are NOT unbreakable.
On my laptop I have so much other stuff that Microsoft might not even know exists. Still, I’ve been fine.
Anyway, read this article by Computerworld.
Hacker breaks into Mac at security conference
$10,000 prize for the CanSecWest challenge winner
Nancy Gohring
Continue reading ‘macs are super-secure? i think not’
Globeandmail.com posted an article on a new free open-source medical journal, launching in Canada.
Open Medicine is a peer-reviewed full-out medical journal with online publications immediately following the review process. Quite amazing, really. I think I will prepare something for them in the coming weeks, but more importantly I think we all should support the idea.
Anyway, below is the Globeandmail’s article on this, and don’t forget to check out Open Medicine.
Open Medicine launches Wednesday
Canadian Press
Posted AT 8:38 PM EDT ON 17/04/07
Continue reading ‘free, open, peer-reviewed online medical journal’
I am a big Google supporter myself, but I am a conscientious objector to the hype surrounding Google office apps. What’s this with crappy online Word and not-any-better Excel? I mean it’s cool for Microsoft to have competition, but…
Well, this wonderful online toy Google created just got upgraded. Google spreadsheets now has charts. Very nice, actually. Perhaps Microsoft and others could learn from Google to create simple and clean interfaces. Of course, though, these apps are lacking severely in the usability department. What can I use this for? Excel has a million functions at my fingertips… but do I need those functions? Hmm… Perhaps not…
In any case, take a look at this article on PC World’s Techlog and decide for yourself. I’d also recommend subscribing to a Google account to see this beast for yourself.
Google Spreadsheets Gets Charts (Finally!)
Wednesday, April 18, 2007Â 8:09 PM PT Posted by Harry McCracken
Continue reading ’spreadsheets with charts? how original!’
So, an article on Playfuls.com claims that banning smoking in a pub reduces the carcinogen level in the air in that pub. WOW! Really?
Some interesting data though. Read on.
Smoking Ban Dramatically Reduces Air Pollution In Irish Pubs
Continue reading ‘air in Irish pubs is cleaner’
Wow. There are bigger things than not having heat for a day… The people described in this article by Highland News are truly suffering.
I think to myself sometimes what my life would have been had I not gotten a computer what I was… how old was I? something like 8. Anyway, I wonder what it could have been like… I am sitting here, taking a break from writing a manuscript [there! I'm trying to not call them "papers" anymore; it's "manuscripts"] and reading news. What’s in the news? Nose-bleeds, ulcerating wounds, half-dead children.
This “slum”, though, doesn’t look half-bad, compared to the average apartment in Moscow around where I grew up. We lived in an all-brick highrise which was something amazing, you know. I would tell people we live in a brick building and they would ask in amazement if it’s really brick and not concrete panels like 99% of the other houses there.
Looking around my apartment now in center city Philadelphia I think it’s pretty good, no matter for the occasional no-heat spells, thanks to the age of the building. Like my hairstylist sais: “your building’s got ALOT of character” 
Anyway, here’s the article:
Mums slam ’sick’ slum flats
By Claire Doughty
Published: 14 April, 2007
Continue reading ’sick slums’
A though-provoking article, nothing less!
I recall reading about cholera outbreaks through infestation of drinking water. But that was so long ago! Surely by now we have much better treatment systems, do we not? Alas, bacteria and viruses are stronger, too.
I know I will repeat it for the millionth time, but as we get rid of weaker bacteria we make room for the stronger species. In some cases, far stronger ones. I am actually curios to see the outcome of all this.
Well, whatever the case, take a look at this article on wastewater treatment published on RedOrbit.
Posted on: Sunday, 15 April 2007, 03:00 CDT
Investing in the Science of Disinfection
By Rose, Joan B; Haas, Charles N
Continue reading ‘wastewater treatment’
Exduco publishes an interesting article on the new research in fusion. Confining plasma in magnetic field is nothing new but explanations of the phenomena are lacking.
I like this idea of usig space plasmas (auroras and such) to try to explain tokamaks.
Anyway, here’s the article from Exduco.
Twisted Flux Tubes Expel “Wrong-Way” Ions - 2007-04-16
Continue reading ‘radially unstable motion’
InformationWeek posts an interesting article on the new corporate HP inkjets.
It’s more businessy than really informative but raises some good points.
I, personally, cannot wait until inkjets replace lasers and I do believe that the laser technology is a bit outdated. Though, an idea of spitting ink at paper is not all that, either. I was more interested in Canon coming out with jets based on nebulized nano-sized drioplets, but that was a while back. Whatever happened to that?
What about bubblejets? That a thing of the past?
Whatever the case, here’s the article:
New HP Printers Sport 60,000 Nozzles
Continue reading ‘head of 60,000′
Ok, take 3 cups of strawberries, wash, slice, add 750 ml good vodka. Wait 1-2 weeks. Enjoy.
Slicing can be a pain in the a$$… Takes forever to cut everything…
Now, add to vodka and you’re almost there…
And the final touch…
Now all I have to do is wait, mixing gently every few days.
Tasted it today (after 4 days in the making). UMMM yum! yum! yum!
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