Month: October 2006

The Mystery of Empty Space

pretty good introduction to the higgs field

FCC rules against Logan WiFi ban

Boston.com awesome. next step: free wifi for everyone.

Ian Hickson on the new HTML WG

since reaching PR is dependent on getting interoperable implementations, and since that requires the creation of a comprehensive test suite, I think 10 years for that is a reasonable guess, if the WG continues to work during that entire period

In God We Trust

By refusing to remove “In God We Trust” from currency and repeal the religious motto, the government continues to act in paranoid fits as it did in the 1950s.

Real-Time 3D in Javascript

This is a demonstration of rendering arbitrary triangles (relatively fast) with javascript/DOM/css (no images, flash, canvas tags or java applets).

heh. all this effort and it is still slow. the 3d web this ain’t

3 ka BP Wealth of Nations?

We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 3 ka BP, 2 ka BP, and 0.5 ka BP for the predecessors to today’s nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is surprisingly significant for today’s national development outcomes. Although our strongest results are for 0.5 ka BP, we find that even technology as old as 3 ka BP is associated with today’s outcomes in some plausible specifications.

Double-blind test of astrology

the best debunking of astrology yet.

Google Dreamweaver

Enhance your websites with advanced Google innovations without touching the code. Set up a site-specific Google Search, show the way with a Google Map, roll in any of 6 new cell phone tools for Google Mobile or sell your goods for less with Google Checkout. Dreamweaver Tools for Google is totally easy to use and absolutely free!

Dreamweaver Tools for Google™
is this the future?

Should Yahoo use Google?

there’s an easy fix for Yahoo if its Panama search platform doesn’t succeed: revert to being a Google affiliate, as it was before the company bought Overture. this could yield higher EBITDA, margin and growth along with lower execution risk.

Cheap Thrills Cuisine recipes

recipes as comics