a moving picture of the universe, 30TB/day. holy shit. unfortunately, only in 2013 🙂
Month: January 2007
Reader Trends
From your 187 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 4057 items, starred 0 items, and shared 0 items.
Browser Cache Usage
40-60% of Yahoo!’s users have an empty cache experience
huh? wow. i wonder how we as an industry can do better.
Augmented Pets
Modified Birdcage for Captive Birds. Using technology developed for testing aerodynamic capability, this birdcage enables the bird to experience the sensation of a long flight within the confines of the cage.
the fascination of cutting-edge culture with augmentation underscores the transhumanist trends in the making
Humane Antigrowth
The anonymous parents of a severely disabled girl (she has the mental capacity of a 3-month-old) have revealed that they surgically modified their daughter, giving her hormone treatments and removing some of her internal organs to keep her small and childlike and thus easier to move around and “involve in family activities.”
transhumanism is coming. as expected, the usual ethics bleating.
Map Mail
awesomeness. i also like the related ‘puzzles for the royal mail to solve’
Second Life numbers
1.5m accounts, 250k 30DAU. a far cry from the media hype
DNA Nullomers
There must be some DNA or protein sequences that are not compatible with life, perhaps because they bind some essential cellular component, for example, and have therefore been selected out of circulation. There may also be some that are lethal in some species, but not others. We’re looking for those sequences.
looking for the shortest DNA strands not expressed anywhere: they might be too deadly. that reads almost like a script for a ‘dangers of GNR tech’ movie
Best haircut ever?
Dojo Offline Toolkit
cleverly uses proxy autoconfig to cache all the necessary data locally. the examples are all based on google products, huh?
Gregor J. Rothfuss 