Category: Tech

Forgot to link to this… cheatsheets for TypePad, Blogger, WordPress and Movable Type.  Also: How to use Google Reader.

Just blogging this in case someone else if having similar problems. Ron got a new black Razr phone and it kept turning itself off. He eventually called the local Cingular store and (after looking up the phone’s serial code) they said that there was a batch of Razr phones that had a glitch where they’d […]

Just got an email about the podcast player button I have on my audio posts. I adapted it from a couple different plugin sources. Here’s the code I have so far. Problems: It outputs the post title before the post text. I don’t think it’d work with multiple audio enclosures. I’m not sure what it […]

Imagine that every time you printed a document, it automatically included a secret code that could be used to identify the printer… In an effort to identify counterfeiters, the US government has succeeded in persuading some color laser printer manufacturers to encode each page with identifying information. That means that without your knowledge or consent, […]

 From Slashdot: For decades, the cognitive and neural sciences have treated mental processes as though they involved passing discrete packets of information… — like a digital computer. More recently, however, a growing number of studies, such as ours, support dynamical-systems approaches to the mind. In this model, perception and cognition are mathematically described as a […]

Pittsburgh’s Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject’s veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution. The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity. But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are […]

Just saw this on CNN, a report on robots in warfare. They highlighted small robots that move in swarms, allowing one operator to control dozens of machines. Swarm from G & I Robotics