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| Sunday Jan 21, 2001 | Intersex is not a laughing matter.
Compare. to Sex by arkuat |
| Friday Jan 19, 2001 | Light pollution joins its older sibling noise pollution as a subsector of environmentalist concern. But while noise pollution affects everyone who's not deaf, the only people who tend to care about light pollution are astronomers, amateur or otherwise. But if you've never seen the details of the Milky Way in a dark country night sky, then you don't know what you're missing for the lack of very simple engineering and efficiency improvements. Perhaps California can't get enough electricity because they're dumping half their outdoor lighting into outer space. Perhaps in hopes of attracting moth-like aliens? to Science by arkuat |
| Tuesday Nov 28, 2000 | Are you sitting at work pining for the joys you experienced while amped up on
MDMA at the
party last week? Pine no more! It's time to take a trip down short-term memory lane with the Retarded Candy Raver Random Image Viewer. PLUR baby!
to Culture by arkuat |
| Wednesday Aug 23, 2000 |
This particular
history of coffee is careful to note
that coffee heiress Abigail Folger was one of the victims of the Manson family. I never knew that!
But there's plenty
more
where that came from.
to Coffee by arkuat |
| Friday Apr 28, 2000 | The
Clones of Guelph is a beautiful story that seems
to be fiction, but is actually an account written
down after the fact of a mentally ill person's
shattered view of Guelph from the inside during
a period "off meds", as we say. to Art by arkuat |
| Tuesday Feb 29, 2000 | Freenet is like Blacknet, only without the threatening sneer on its face. to Internet by arkuat |
| Thursday Feb 10, 2000 | Low-fat computing is a heretical approach to the integrated design of hardware/software systems, based on the Forth philosophy of Chuck Moore and Jeff Fox. to Computing by arkuat |
| Wednesday Feb 9, 2000 | For over a quarter of a century, San Francisco Sex Information has been giving out what they claim to be accurate and non-judgmental information about sex and sexuality to anonymous telephone callers from all over the continent. They're funded entirely by volunteers paying for the intensive training required before going on the phones. Call them up and ask a question (but don't ask one of these). to Sex by arkuat |
| Originally scheduled for Januray, 1999,
NEAR will
rendezvous
with asteroid 433 Eros on Valentine's day. Well, unless
something goes wrong again. But at least NEAR is in the hands of Johns Hopkins and not NASA.
to Science by arkuat |
| Friday Jan 21, 2000 | Celebrity death match: Dilbert vs. Covey. to Commentary by arkuat |
| Monday Jan 17, 2000 | Happy birthday, Dr. King. (Okay, so it's late, blame Congress.) to Literature by arkuat |
| Saturday Jan 15, 2000 | Ashleigh Brilliant... the name says it all. Check out today's potshot. to Memetics by arkuat |
| Thursday Dec 16, 1999 | Prions are infectious agents with no associated genetic (nucleic acid) material. How then did they develop? With such a definition, their very existence is still controversial. Yet they are already being shoehorned into the taxonomy as "subviral". to Science by arkuat |
| Accompany and Mercata allow you to pool your purchases with those of strangers to qualify for volume discounts. You've got an internet hookup, so why pay retail?
to Commerce by arkuat |
| Tuesday Dec 7, 1999 | Explore special relativity with this Twin Paradox applet. to Science by arkuat |
| Monday Nov 15, 1999 | Scandal!
A grievous misunderstanding of the true nature of the tropical year is being propagated in the most eminent and respectable reference books of astronomy and calendrical matters. to Reference by arkuat |
| Saturday Nov 13, 1999 | In Nanotechnology without Genies - A Critique, Lyle Burkhead undertakes a detailed analysis of this planet's current economic and technological systems in order to refute some misconceptions about molecular nanotechnology. to Commentary by arkuat |
| What day is it? (Brought to you by the authors of
Calendrical Calculations) to Reference by arkuat |
| Tuesday Nov 9, 1999 | A repository of
science maps! That is, if
you aren't more interested in old maps and the
history of cartography. Mapping needs still unfulfilled? Check the WWWVL's guide to
online and commercial maps
and Oddens. to Cartography by arkuat |
| Wednesday Nov 3, 1999 | E is the
latest incarnation of a
series
of
software implementations. This one has
been released under a Mozilla-style license,
and was designed to permit the implementation of capability-based
Smart
Contracts.
to Computing by arkuat |
| Wednesday Oct 20, 1999 | Loglan
and its non-owned offshot
Lojban
are
constructed languages,
like Volapuk and Esperanto (ick) and Quenya and
Klingon, only much more sophisticated. So much
more sophisticated that they may not even be
speakable... judge for yourself. The division
between the two languages seems to revolve around
intellectual property issues. to Linguistics by arkuat |
| Tuesday Oct 19, 1999 | Encyclopedia
Britannica Online is changing revenue models.
Henceforth, they will be free (or, really, funded
by advertising banners). Too bad their server
wasn't up to the load generated on the day of
the announcment. What's next? Banner ads on the
OED? to Reference by arkuat |
| Thursday Oct 14, 1999 | We don't have any books by Heraclitus,
nor by Democritus
even though the latter's contemporaries and
successors noted
him
as a prolific author. What we know of
Aristotle
is the lecture notes
scribbled down by his students; most of the
works he himself carefully prepared for
publication have been destroyed. And don't remind
me of the lost plays
or I'll cry. Many people assume that the last
copies of these works were lost in the famous
burning of the Library
of Alexandria in the time of Cleopatra, but in fact,
most of the last copies were probably lost
in a disaster both more recent and more obscure, the burning of the
city of Constantinople in the course of the Fourth
Crusade in the early thirteenth century. to Books by arkuat |
| Friday Sep 24, 1999 | Scientologists beware. The Church
of Virus is a new memetically-engineered
atheistic religion that is even now hungrily
sweeping up all your best prospects for
conversion. to Religion by arkuat |
| Wednesday Sep 22, 1999 | Resampling
is a Monte Carlo approach to statistics using
repeated simulations that is purported to be a
much easier pedagogical approach to statistics
than the traditional formula-based methods of
teaching it. If you tried to learn statistics
before and were stumped, perhaps it's time to
give it another shot. to Education by arkuat |
| Tuesday Sep 21, 1999 | So who thought up the parts that Starbuck's
got right? (There are a few, you know.) Their
main competition in the Bay area, especially
the East Bay, Peet's, who
strangely seem to have no desire to parlay their
success in roasting coffee into the creation of
yet another international fast-food chain. to Coffee by arkuat |
| Monday Sep 20, 1999 | How an urban-planning class integrates the work
of non-academic Jane
Jacobs. to Education by arkuat |
| Thursday Apr 29, 1999 | The longtime web journalist
Anders Sandberg has a section on
space transportation. He's been at
it since 1995, so there's
plenty
more
where that came from. to Transportation by arkuat |
| Friday Apr 2, 1999 | Robin Hanson explores
the economics of science fiction
and finds it wanting. The technically inclined might also want to look at
an economic analysis of the US health
care situation. (Hanson is noted as the
theorist who came up with the
idea of
Idea Futures.)
to Economics by arkuat |
| Wednesday Mar 31, 1999 | For twenty years, the Sun has hung above the south pole of Uranus. The planet glowed as a
featureless, weatherless, cyan ball. But now, as the Sun crosses the planet's equator, it's
springtime on Uranus
(or autumn if you prefer). Be sure to watch the
movies. to Science by arkuat |
| Monday Mar 15, 1999 | Multics was developed in the mid-1960s in
the programming language PL/1. Unix folklore has it that Unix began as a miniature
mutant offshoot of Multics. to Computing by arkuat |
| Thursday Mar 11, 1999 | Cosma Shalizi uses snippets of
Talking Heads lyrics for the titles of each section, so it has to be good. And it is,
particularly the Codex
HTML and the author's
notebooks.
to Memetics by arkuat |
| Tuesday Mar 2, 1999 | Humans have downward-pointing nostrils, a dive
reflex, skin-bonded subcutaneous fat, and a
number of other peculiar traits that we share
with aquatic mammals but do not share with other
primates. The Aquatic
Ape Theory attempts to give an evolutionary
explanation of these and other traits.
Needless to say, it's controversial. to Science by arkuat |
| Monday Feb 15, 1999 | I used to think my favorite comic strip was Alison
Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For.
But then I discovered Diane DiMassa's Hothead
Paisan,
and now I know better. to Comics by arkuat |
| Monday Feb 1, 1999 | Yes! It's that most restrictive of graphical
media! ASCII
art. to Art by arkuat |
| Thursday Jan 28, 1999 | Nick
Szabo is one of my favorite heroic
curmudgeons. Among his early work in Theoretical
Applied Science I loved his work on comet
mining and his frightening alarmist piece on green
goo. Most famous is probably his work on Smart
Contracts, but he has also written an
introduction to algorithmic information theory
and articles on hermeneutics, security
architecture, and protocol design. to Memetics by arkuat |
| Tuesday Jan 26, 1999 | Peter McCluskey reviews
Baetjer's Software as Capital, and contrasts
the programming languages Perl and Smalltalk
to illustrate some of the points.
to Economics by arkuat |
| Monday Jan 18, 1999 | The SEDS Messier
Catalog is a beautifully done and very deep
site that explores the classic, well-known deep-sky
objects cataloged by Charles Messier. This is a
good way to get an overview of the nearest, largest,
and brightest globular clusters, open clusters,
stardust clouds, "planetary nebulae" (a misnomer),
and galaxies. I wish I had several spare multihour
chunks of time to spend exploring this one. to Science by arkuat |
| Monday Jan 4, 1999 | The history of art, as told by Barbie. to Art by arkuat |
| Tuesday Dec 29, 1998 | Uh oh. When prosecutors use past published
writings of an accused as sole evidence against
em in bail reduction hearings, I get worried.
Jim
Goad is in trouble (not much surprise
there), but perhaps Underhill
won't be able to get this past a jury
once a judge starts making reasonable rulings
about what is and is not admissible evidence.
to Politics by arkuat |
| Tuesday Dec 22, 1998 | From the depths of early 1990s East Bay BBS
culture, it's
& the Temple
of the Screaming Electron to Memetics by arkuat |
| Jane
Jacobs has spent most of her life
investigating the difficult question of why
some cities stagnate while other cities thrive. to Books by arkuat |
| Jared Diamond went to New Guinea to study bird
evolution and wound up having
a conversation with a native
politician, who ended up asking him "Why did
Europeans develop so much cargo and bring it here,
while we people of New Guinea developed so little
of our own?" Twenty-five years later, he
presented his first attempt at an answer in a
book called
Guns,
Germs, and Steel. The answer, before it
was done, had blown up into a history of the last
thirteen millennia of this planet. to Books by arkuat |
| Saturday Dec 19, 1998 | Never mind the CambridgeSoft review. Here's
Ralph Merkle's collection of resources for
computational
chemistry. Make gray goo in your garage. to Science by arkuat |
| Pigdog Journal.
GAR! RoR-Alucard. Hail Isabeau.
to Wackos by arkuat |
| Friday Dec 18, 1998 | Biosphere 2 seems
to have passed into the possession of Columbia
University and continues its existence as an
educational institution. No future closures are
currently planned, but the possibility remains.
The Biospherics
home page gives information about several similar
projects around the world. to Science by arkuat |
| Friday Dec 11, 1998 | How
I Found Freedom in an Unfree World is back
in print. Written in the heady hippie days of
1972 by a guy who went on to make a living
teaching people how to get rich off the Federal
Reserve's demolition of the US dollar in the
1970s, this book stands head and shoulders above
its cohorts in the self-help genre.
to Books by arkuat |
| Monday Dec 7, 1998 | We've had the lovely flybys of Mathilde and
Gaspra and Ida (with Dactyl), but next month
we get the first orbital rendezvous with an
asteroid, namely 433 Eros. The web design at
Near-Earth
Asteroid Rendezvous project is not so hot,
but the mission news updates are
very detailed.
Mark your calendars for 1999 January 10 and watch
that URL.
to Science by arkuat |
| Friday Dec 4, 1998 | A recent issue of CambridgeSoft Catalyst
has a review of various molecular-modeling software
packages. Discover the drug that will make millions
for the next big pharmaceutical company in the
comfort of your own den! to Science by arkuat |
| Friday Sep 18, 1998 | Linda Nagata
is one of the most promising new science-fiction
novelists of the 1990s.
to Books by arkuat |
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