Science & Technology

  1. Our Minds Are Time Travelers

    The human mind can move through time from past to present or present or past to future and in any gear. Our ability to imagine future events is a recent evolutionary development, and unparalleled in the animal kingdom.

  2. Luddites Against iPods

    A girl’s present was ruined by a rogue luddite this Christmas. Instead of an iPod, she got a paperweight and this message.

  4. Ars Technica and Apple

    “Ars Technica”http://arstechnica.com/apple.ars is an excellent source for Apple related news. Unlike most Apple-related sites that rehash info from each other, Ars consistently comes up with new and interesting content. Their latest article, “New Chax beta brings unified buddy list”:http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/12/10/new-chax-beta-brings-unified-buddy-list , is what got me to write this post. I’ve been waiting forever for this hack [...]

  5. Oh Crap! We’re Screwed!

    My friend Aaron Gabow just shared this wonderful news.
    “If a lifetime of reading sci-fi has taught me something, it’s that this can be no good.”
    Personally, I prefer the War of the Worlds where we get invaded by large buggy aliens, but we’re exonerated by bacteria that kills them off. It’s the poisonous gas from space [...]

  6. Gaping Hole In the Universe? That Can’t Be Good

    Reuters posted an interesting article entitled, Gaping hole found in universe
    A giant hole in the Universe is devoid of galaxies, stars and even lacks dark matter, astronomers said on Thursday…
    “We already knew there was something different about this spot in the sky,” Rudnick said. The region stood out as being colder in a survey of [...]

  7. Only From My Cold Dead Hands…

    …will you get my iPhone away from me. I’ve been using it for a couple weeks now and I’ve come to the conclusion that I can’t live without it. Of course, you might be asking, “but Jon, you lived without it before.” That is true, but the emotional attachment I’ve made to this little communication/entertainment [...]

  8. Ginormous Wasps Make My Home Their Home

    I was mowing my yard today when I saw several hummingbirds start to fly all around me. I was near the edge of my home and they kept bumping into one another, barely noticing me. As I looked closer, these 1 1/2 to 2 inch birds were actually gigantic wasps!
    Having an aversion to pain and [...]

  10. Quantcast Web Stats

    I’m testing out a new traffic gathering system called Quantcast on my company’s site, sitening.com. It’s supposed to be a lot better than Alexa (which isn’t hard) and it requires that you insert a tiny bit of JavaScript onto all of your pages (similar to Google Analytics). I’ll look forward to seeing what kind of [...]