George Carlin versus Mark Twain
An interesting link on George Carlin and Mark Twain. If you are a fan of either check it out.
Lamarckian Evolution Returns
A Comeback for Lamarckian Evolution?
So, what does this mean for genetic programming and grammatical evolution. New things to ponder! Our offspring are no longer subject just to our genetic traits, but that of our growth as an adolescent?
Testing from ScriberFire
A test post from ScribeFire
Testing FeedBurner Email Subscriptions
FeedBurner is an awesome way to enhance your blog and effectively add an email list at no cost to you. Check it out.
Looks like the “War of the Worlds” robot ship to me!
Check out this page on a new tri-ped robot. Make sure to watch the video off you-tube. Awesome!
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Take a cruise on an airship!
Look at this cool new airship design and imagine future cruises in the air. Shades of sci-fi!
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Attack of the giant pumkpins!
Check out this years winner of the pumpkin contest. It doesn’t beat the record, but I had no idea they could grow so large!
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Who “invented” zombies?
Nope it wasn’t George Romero with “Night of the Living Dead. It wasn’t even old classic horror movies. Rather, it’s part of Haitian folklore and voodoo. read more here at Yahoo.
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Free web based alternative to Quicken?
This looks pretty promising as a web based free alternative to Quicken to help you manage your money.
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Things to do when you’re a bored developer
So you’re bored coding and need some ideas to get you juiced. Check out this blog entry. Several I hadn’t heard of/thought of.
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The benifits of being a programmer
The counter side to my last blog, this article shows the good things that come from being a programmer. Ahhh, I feel better now!
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Programming Can Ruin Your Life?
Eeeks, a somewhat depressing, but very revealing (at least for me) brief essay on how programming can affect your life. Actually more of a description of what programming does to your brain and your approach to life. Like that old commercial, “This is your brain…this is your brain on programming”. I did find several interesting self revelations in it though. If you are a programmer, you’ll I’m sure find traits that match you!
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The Universal Information Client
This is what I really want to handle all my info. All my information managed and easily search-able, etc. in one place. Lots of wonderful ideas in this package. Make sure to give Haystack a look. Check out the overview and publications. It looks like development has slowed or stopped on it however 
“Haystack is a tool designed to let individuals manage all
their information in ways that make the most sense to them. By
removing arbitrary barriers created by applications that handle only
certain information “types” and that record only a fixed set of
relationships defined by the developer, we aim to let users define
whichever arrangements of, connections between, and views of
information they find most effective. Such
personalization of information management will dramatically improve
everyone’s ability to find what they need when they need it.”
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Exhibit 2.0 – Create interactive data-rich web pages like these ones below without ever touching a database or a web server, or doing any programming
This look useful! A way of building rich information presentation apps without any coding. Are you in marketing and want to highlight in a graphical form information you’ve dug up? Give Exhibit a try. Afterwards, check out the general site for these guys, they’re doing fascinating work on information management.
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Making your browsing experience so much better
I have been lately very fond of an application from Microsoft called “OneNote”. When I look at how I use it, it’s mostly for keeping web clippings and searching of those. I’ve lately converted from using IE7 to FireFox almost exclusively (IE7 would crash after having something like 30 tabs open, not a rare thing for me). It’s has spell checking (needed for my terrible typing) and and amazing plethora of useful plugins. I fact, this one, Scrapbook, has almost replaced my use/need of OneNote.
Rather than book mark anything while surfing, I now “capture” whole pages. Scrapbook is unique in that it stores the original URL, so that you can open your “local” copy, or head back to the original on the web. It has great searching facilities, allows you to create your own HTML notes, annotate your saved web pages, post edit saved web pages to get rid of ads and content you don’t want, stores the pages in non-proprietary straight HTML (very important!!!), has tons of add-ons , and many other features, and is FREE! Run, don’t walk, and go get yourself a copy of this.
In my daily surfing, I use these two other great tools too.
Wizz RSS Reader for FireFox for all my blog reading. It’s FREE too, and works pretty well. I can think of a few things I’d do different, so time for me to send in a donation and a feature request.
Once you’ve added in all these cool sidebar tools, you’ll want a better way to view them than the simplistic sidebar facility that FireFox has. Plugins to the rescue! Check out All-In-One Sidebar and you’ll be in sidebar bliss.
Now you may asking, “but Brad, how do you get these blog entries posted so quickly”. Alas, ScribeFire comes to the rescue! It’s a blog editor hosted inside FireFox (yes, another plugin). It’s simple and works great and again is FREE.
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Good programming strat for noobs
Check out this site that has an interesting IDE for noob/wannb programmers. Its’ a very visual way to program and create visual output. A greta place for kids to start learning programming too.
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:) = Health + Money + Social Life + Meaning
There’s now a wiki on Scott Adams “happiness formula”. Fun!
Check it out: http://happinessformula.pbwiki.com/
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Superlightcar – the succesor to the SmartCar?
Quoted from http://www.superlightcar.com/public/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1:
SuperLIGHT-CAR introduction
SuperLIGHT-CAR is a collaborative Research & Development project co-funded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme. In SuperLIGHT-CAR, 38 leading organizations from 9 european countries work together to bring lightweight automotive technologies closer to high volume car production.
SuperLIGHT-CAR has a multi-material philosophy, striving to use for each part the best material and manufacturing processes in terms of weight and cost minimization, while fulfilling a wide range of automotive requirements in areas such as stiffness, crash performance, fatigue and corrosion resistance, etc.
Bring back the dirigibles!
Quoted from http://www.dynalifter.com/:
Can dirigibles make a comback?
News: Ohio Airships close to landing $4.09B contract for 38 Dynalifter Freighters
Thre legged bots!
Interesting… I’ve seen a three leged dog, but never a three legged bot.
Quoted from http://geneticargonaut.blogspot.com/2007/05/racing-with-evolutionary-algorithms.html:
Genetic Argonaut: Racing With Evolutionary Algorithms
Racing With Evolutionary Algorithms
Moving Your Eyes Improves Memory, Study Suggests
Quoted from http://www.livescience.com/health/070425_eyes_memory.html:
LiveScience.com: Moving Your Eyes Improves Memory, Study Suggests
Moving Your Eyes Improves Memory, Study Suggests
When you least expect it, shift happens!
Here’s an interesting video, more of a presentation actually on some interesting numbers that may boggle your mind. The net of the presentation harkens back to Ray Kurzweil and other who speak of the exponential growth of knowledge in the times we live in and the dramatic effects just a few years of that growth may entail.
See it here:
http://www.flixxy.com/technology-and-education.htm
Retrocausality or the art of changing the past
So the universe just keeps getting weirder. Check out this article on retrocausality. If that’s not strange enough, let look into the theory that the universe is just a big computer and that the reality we experience is just it’s simulation. Shades of “The Matrix”, eh? Check out these books on that very topic:
- Seth Lloyd, “Programming The Universe”
- Charles Seife, “Decoding The Universe”
Tired of programming in C++, VB, C#, Java, or whatever? Try your hand at programming the universe!
Stargate Replicators?
Wow, these robots look a lot like the Replicators on Stargate. Check ‘em out!
Biomemetics – learning engineering from mother nature
Fascinating web site on what we can learn from Gecko’s, cockroaches, etc.
http://www.stanford.edu/~sangbae/
make sure to watch the iSprawl video. Amazing and makes one definitely think of how a cockroach moves.
Another technology challenge with a prize – $25 million!
Feb. 9 – Virgin boss Richard Branson is offering a $25 million prize for the best way of extracting CO2 from the atmosphere.
The Virgin Earth Challenge has the backing of distinguished environment campaigners including former US vice – president Al Gore.
Check the video out here:
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=6672&src=020907_1444_ARTICLE_PROMO_also_on_reuters
SplashCast – another way to do blogs, sort of, video style
Yet another way to do video on the web. Th idea here is to create your own customized video “channel” for others to watch. I.e. if you’re into yoga, then hunt up various videos (say on YouTube), pictures, etc. and “publish” them in your channel. Others can then subscribe to it. Sort of a player variation on blogging. Check out here at:
Engineers Design New ‘Origami’ Optics
“The ultrathin optical system could be used in camera phones and other extremely compact imaging devices.”
No more long and bulky lenses? Yeah!
http://www.popphoto.com/photonews/3735/engineers-design-new-origami-optic.html
Floating on nothing!
Cool video of a small aluminum foil “ship” floating on “nothing” (thanks Steve!):
Help with that new cool product idea
A very interesting company and some cool concepts they’ve come up with:
Like the replicators on Stargate
Very of interesting video of self-repairing robots at Cornell U.
Inline Search for Internet Explorer
So you tried FireFox, loved it, but found that a lot of eCommerce sites only work with IE. Next you tried IE7 and though, wow, this has most of what I want from FireFox. One problem; you really miss the search from FireFox. Well, here’s your answer and it’s FREE:
The Orton Effect
Self-improvment the hacker way
Testing BlogJet
I have installed an interesting application – BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com
“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.” — Albert Einstein
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