Category: Technology
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Resolution.
In the future, I will not purchase a cell phone or other communication device that has a light that blinks to tell me I do not need to check it. [EDIT MADE IN 2026: I wonder what in the world I was commenting on.]
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Comments on the Kickbee?
"The Kickbee: A belt worn by pregnant woman that sends a text message every time the baby kicks." Link is to Althouse's post on it, because her misreading of the article led to a funny comment.
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Immutable humanity.
Great post by John Scalzi: technology changes, but people don't really change. Lots of technology has come and gone during the decade and a half between 1994 and now, but the belief that the transformational nature of technology has created a generation that other generations don’t quite get has apparently remained constant. Which is, of course, to…
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I think this will be very useful.
I'm always wanting one to time a math test or something, and the kids have always run off with mine, and I don't like to wear a wristwatch and the microwave timer is in the kitchen… so… Online Stopwatch You're welcome.
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Vaccines that encourage an auto-immune response.
Interesting comment by organic chemist Daniel Pipes on the possibility of a vaccine for Alzheimer's disease. The idea of an amyloid vaccine has always excited and alarmed me in equal measure. But that's how I feel about the immune system in general, come to think of it. We have enough cellular firepower to completely…
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“[S]prinkled with pixie dust vacuum-sintered with an alloy of unobtanium and thiotimolene..”
The best phrase I've read all week, appearing in this vent regarding Hewlett-Packard printer-component pricing structure. The best phrase I've heard all week came from my husband, who (referring to so-called "fruit snacks" — you and I know they're really a form of differently-shaped gummy bears) claimed that the manufacturers obtain the right to call…
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My swim bag.
After I finished taking a year of swimming lessons a few years ago, and started trying to swim for fitness, I only managed to do it a couple of times a month. Part of doing it more frequently has been developing a well-stocked, ready-to-go swim bag. I started with the bare bones. My bag had…
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Purseless.
Dr. Helen experiments with liberating herself from purses and asks how wallet-users manage (especially when hampered by women’s clothes with useless pockets or none). An interesting thread to read. Dr. Helen says she feels dependent on a purse: I decided to try carrying just a wallet… and see if it was worth punting the purse…
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3 engineers + 1 seamstress = $300 worth of savings.
Melissa appeared at the birthday party already flustered from a fruitless search for a five-point-harnessed car seat for her very tall three-and-a-half-year-old. He’s plenty big enough for a mere booster seat, but he’s not mature enough — he keeps wriggling free from his seatbelt, frighteningly fast, while Melissa’s on the highway. “What am I going…
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This catalog just jumped the remote-controlled robotic shark.
On the airplane this morning coming back from a wedding, I made the mistake of perusing the Sky Mall inflight catalog. If only I hadn’t! For now I am consumed with the knowledge that I lack the "latest technology" that "unites a weather station and a coffeemaker." O unholy union!
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Short thought.
Bridges will never stop falling down, because we will never cease to create untested designs, and we will never stop asking our existing ones to perform more and more feats. I’m sure there’s some kind of analogy to be made about life, there.
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Security experts…
OK. Let’s go over some basic crypto information here. A key, ultimately, is a piece of encoded information. Sort of like a password. Get the information and you can open the safe and get the goodies. This is true when the "goodies" are data and the "safe" is a database, or a password-protected laptop. I’m…
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