First off, sorry to all for not posting for such a good stretch of time.
If you have been reading my posts here, you know that I have been anticipating some significant changes in the status quo of the US economy. Last summer I started to get the notion that things were out of control [...]
…you’re addicted to love [*]:
A Wall Street Journal article surveying research on the neurobiology of love reports on the work of Dr. Helen Fisher. Love triggers the dopamine system which is also involved in drug addiction.
Dr. Fisher has studied love by looking at people’s brains using magnetic resonance imaging machines. A recent study also looked [...]
Mike Morton, a long-time friend and colleague and a Master of Anagrams, send me a link to a great story about a group of IT engineers dealing with a CEO who just didn’t understand Brooks’ Law:
After failing to win several arguments on this point, the engineers became exasperated and decided to hold an intervention with [...]
Pat Dollard has been traveling to Iraq since late 2004, filming a documentary — “Young Americans” — about the actual soldiers serving over there and what they live with on a day-to-day basis. In so doing, Dollard has put his own life in danger on an ongoing basis.
You’ll get a sense of that with this [...]
Valleywag has a link to this YouTube video that appears to be a 1993 CBC Prime Time news report on “Internet”. It’s well worth watching, both for the unintended humor to the viewpoint of what the Internet would provide. Enjoy. ..bruce..
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John Scalzi, author of Old Man’s War and The Ghost Brigades (both of which I highly recommend), gives a revealing look over on his website about how much money he has actually earned writing and editing science fiction over the past several years. For example:
2006 was the first year I received royalties on sales of [...]
Yes! Really! Jobs has his own blog! I mean, read this entry and tell me that this isn’t really being written by Steve Jobs:
Well the engineers want to kill me but you know what, I know how to design products. And I’m sorry, this circuit board for the iPhone is just way too friggin [...]
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Also, I am considering switching the underlying blog engine from WordPress to Joomla. (Or, to be precise, “Joomla!”) From what I’ve seen so far, Joomla doesn’t work quite as well as a blog, [...]
This is just too cool:
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has captured for the first time enough light from planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, to identify signatures of molecules in their atmospheres. The landmark achievement is a significant step toward being able to detect possible life on rocky exoplanets and comes years before astronomers [...]
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I love it when I see someone actually crunch the numbers. In these two articles, Randolph Harrison at Capitalism 2.0 applies real-world financial analysis to the Second Life economy — and decides that it matches the characteristics of a high-yield investment program, if not an all-out Ponzi scheme. Here are the articles:
Second Life: Revolutionary Virtual [...]