Category Archives: technology

use the protocol, Luke!

Star Wars IV by telnet

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how Google does it

PigeonRank™

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packers and mappers

Reciprocality: some interesting stuff about the psychology of creativity.

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oh yeah, that’ll help – but help whom?

The latest from that great hypocrite Don Perata: Calif. lawmaker wants 5-cent tax on every bullet to support trauma centers. Perata said there was plenty of precedent for taxing bullets, noting that California has been taxing smokers 50-cents for each … Continue reading

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short and stout

Steve Baker tells the tale of the Utah Teapot. (Found through another Steve’s links.) Links in turn to the Stanford Bunny. And what collection of digital models would be complete without Lena Sjööblom? I first saw her in Foley & … Continue reading

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Jack and the nanotube ribbon

The Space Elevator Comes Closer to Reality. (And with only three popups!) Dragging lines up seems so inelegant, though, compared to bringing in a carbon-bearing asteroid and extruding the whole thing down. Maybe next time.

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the music goes round and round

At a party in 1981 I predicted that within twenty years there would be digital music players with no moving parts. I was a bit worried there until MP3 players came along. (Good thing nobody remembers I predicted that such … Continue reading

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