Category Archives: Technology

“…our problems are much bigger than anything that can be cured by buying a few more ships and planes…”

“If the Department of Defense can’t figure out a way to defend the United States on a budget of more than a half a trillion dollars a year, then our problems are much bigger than anything that can be cured by buying a few more ships and planes…” -Defense Secretary Robert Gates
Required reading for Americans.

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Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage Talk “MythBusters”

FORA.tv – Hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage Talk “MythBusters”.
Awesome panel about mythbusters, arming robots, etc.   Worth the hour if you are interested in the show.

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Post-quantum cryptography

Somebody announces that he’s built a large quantum computer. RSA is dead. DSA is dead. Elliptic curves, hyperelliptic curves, class groups, whatever, dead, dead, dead. So users are going to run around screaming and say ‘Oh my God, what do we do?’
via Introduction.

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Nanotech May Tap Into Your Mind

Eron may actually get his lifelong dream to power my garbage disposal:   Nanotech May Tap Into Your Mind

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And then?

Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything.

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More, better metal foam

Fantastic payoff for years of sustained research, and demonstrated excellence in the field.  Looking forward to seeing this everywhere soon.  Retrofit the R?
Rabiei’s invention isn’t the first metal foam, but she says it’s the strongest. The main weakness of existing metal foams is the varying sizes of their cells — tiny pockets of space inside [...]

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DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show – NYTimes.com

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show – NYTimes.com.

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PBS Frontline – Poisoned Waters

FRONTLINE: poisoned waters: introduction | PBS. – watch the whole two hours before you condemn.   It gets through, inexorably to a quality point.
Wake up, people!

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Gravity Probe B

Gravity Probe B is about awesome…
“Imagine a snowflake, which has a fraction of a gram, slowly falling down on to the deck of a supertanker. The acceleration that the supertanker experiences from that snowflake is comparable to the sensitivity of our instrument,” he told BBC News.
More…

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Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | Video on TED.com

Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | Video on TED.com.
Just watch it.  It’s amazing.  Watch it all the way through.

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Link dump!

Warning, this one is going to be large and varied, folks.

Fighting for the right to clone – It’s rough out there, in the science world.  Hopefully America becomes much more science friendly, soon.
Do not fuck with Chinese shipping – Let this be a warning to you, pirates.
Worthwhile reading – On self defense ammo.
Fresh tomatoes and [...]

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Testing the A380.

Some videos of the Airbus A380 being tested. 

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Gibson moar prescient?

It’s possible.

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From the I’m not crazy file.

Yes, Virginia, they can dupe your keys from a photo.  The Street finds its’ own use for things.

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Convergence. It happens.

This was shot with a DSLR.
Really.
http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=2086

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Intel and the SSD market.

“Within the next five years we’ll be in a situation where the fans in your system are more likely to fail than your hard drive, and if your drive does happen to fail it’ll tell you well in advance.”
Highly in-depth article.
Admittedly, Intel is not the lowest priced, nor etc.  But, they are using their minus [...]

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Moar link dump. Weirder this time.

Search for farmer’s markets near you.
Programmer Competency Matrix.
Edit Mode for Web Pages.
Oxytocin explains a lot.  SAD sufferers and geeks take note.
Digital sand painting.  Click on the gray square for a menu of sorts.
Self-watering, fool-proof, small footprint gardening?  SIP.
Seashell house.
A contender for the 650 class adventure motorcycle, with daily commuter built in?

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Link dump. Long put off. Need to cleanse the desktop.

I spent one whole night watching the video to Johnny Cash’s hurt. This is it’s story.
(old but good)  Do you let the transhuman AI out of the box?  Some very smart people did.
NASA Workmanship Standards – Pictorial Reference.
I have this weird thing I like to do after sex… (NSFW)
Building a Container House – try [...]

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Life on Mars? President briefed.

It seems that some results were kept out of the “water on Mars” briefing until the President was briefed and there was more time to mull over the findings… Nice, right on top of the hydrogen/solar briefing below.
UPDATE: Turns out, this may not be cool at all.  Presence of a poison in the soil.  [...]

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As good as fusion, but distributed?

Cheap Catalyst Could Turn Sunlight, Water Into Fuel.
.

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Layman’s guide to DNS hacks…

Here.

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The smallest game ever played.

Yes, that is 16×16 Defender played in a favicon.

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Fantastic article from Outside…

“Raising the Dead”
Now, with less spoilers. This is an amazing article, very well worth the read. Many people have some issues with the intro paragraph, so ignore that if you choose. Also, this dive is on youtube, but I won’t link directly, for reasons that should become self-evident.
Along the same vein, if [...]

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Again, Gibson predicts the future…

Immunize them from the naturally resistant.

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Saw this the first day, struggled to explain it to Jen…

This is awesome/scary to the nth degree. Like so many wonderful concepts, it’s so simple in essence. This Wired writeup does a great job of explaining the Image Fulgurator. In other news, I LOVE my D300, and it appears that a D700 will be coming out soon. I hope to convince my [...]

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