I think I'm just a little creeped out at the thought of Google having a soul of its own. … [Read more...] about The Google Cathedral
Science
Whew.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050809/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle … [Read more...] about Whew.
Yesterday I Couldn’t Spell Mathematishun…
I just heard a radio ad for Harper College that was...surprising. The ad lists off a bunch of pairs of things where one is greater than the other and eventually suggests that I'd be greater with a Harper education than without one. What caught my attention, however, was the very first pair of things listed, which went something like this: "x to the n is greater than x to the … [Read more...] about Yesterday I Couldn’t Spell Mathematishun…
Digital Immortality
Glenn Reynolds says: Digital images are potentially immortal, so long as they get recopied from time to time onto fresh media, but reality being what it is, hardcopy in a shoebox is probably likely to outlast things that require actual human effort. What effort? Hard drive technology improves so fast that every time I get a new computer I just copy the entire … [Read more...] about Digital Immortality
Soggy Computers
Virgina Postrel's laptop just got soaked and appears to be dead. I'm something of a computer geek, and several friends have come to me with just this problem. I know what to do about this, but the knowledge is apparently useless: everybody first tries turning the computer on to see if it will work. This usually fries something. So, for anybody who hasn't yet soaked … [Read more...] about Soggy Computers