Last May I posted about my adventures with gout and the things I was doing to try and fight off acute attacks. Well, since then I’ve had a couple tinglings of pain in various joints but had been able to avoid a full blown attack. Today I’m hobbled, unable to walk because my left ankle […]
Everyone knows MS ads… no, MS marketing in general… it just sucks donkey wang. Even the new Windows 7 ads that a lot of people are saying “don’t suck so bad” are crap… except for Kylie, but that’s all her not MS. Anyway, I have no idea if this is supposed to be a viral […]
A while back, John Boswell of Colorpulse created an amazing auto-tune remix of Carl Segan’s Cosmos and Stephen Hawking’s Universe with his own melody called A Glorious Dawn. It is nothing less than devastating. Every time I hear it I’m almost held in my tracks while it plays. Recently he’s created Symphony of Science where […]
A couple days ago I read the latest h+ Ray Kurzweil interview (pdf), and one part of it stood out for me. RUS: I think when most people think of utopia, they probably just think about everybody being happy and feeling good. RK: I really don‘t think that‘s the goal. I think the goal has […]
This book is a great one if you want to show your kid how those backyard science experiments relate to real-world applications. You can buy a book or a kit that shows you how to sit down with your kid and make a simple condensation still, but this book will show you the correlation to […]
Whenever I see books touting “forbidden knowledge”, I always think it’s gonna be full of a bunch of BS that pretty much anyone with a mischievous streak would already know and probably done at least once. While this book has plenty of that, it also has some topics that I didn’t expect. Here are a […]
Over time, things that catch your eye for one reason or another while surfing the interwebostream tubes tend to collect on your computer. Out of all the BS on my computer, these are a few of the images that really aren’t that funny beyond an initial chuckle, but for whatever reason they always get me […]
A youtube commenter, ironically calling themselves “teched246”, questioned my use of RFID technology for convenience purposes. Quite seriously I suggested they check out an Amish commune/farm (I really wasn’t joking), and they respond with “An amish farm sounds perfect- back to nature- peaceful- bliss. I’m not a technological junkie anyhow, as I don’t own a […]
I was just reading about the mysteries of tin and came across this tidbit: When tin is cooled below 13.2°C, it changes slowly from white to grey. This change is affected by impurities such as aluminium and zinc, and can be prevented by small additions of antimony or bismuth. The conversion was first noted as […]
Since content on the Internet has grown to the point where it now has all the answers, you’d think a book like 101 things you should know how to do wouldn’t have any place on a bookshelf anymore… and it doesn’t. This book belongs on the coffee table or in the bathroom, where it’s a […]
