Society for the Elimination of the Color Pumpkin from the Web

I guess the folks from the Society for the Elimination of the Color Pumpkin from the Web won’t be visiting my site…

The Answer Geek

I had never run across The Answer Geek at abcnews.com, but today I learned how gas pumps sense a full tank from him. The archives have other great tidbits like the secrets of salt curing and how dry cleaning works.

Supercomputers

I’ve always followed the progress of supercomputers beginning with the CDC 6600 (my first “real” computer was the CDC 6400 at the University of Washington) running up to 3 million instructions per second, so I found this announcement by IBM of their Blue Gene supercomputer that will be capable of one quadrillion (that’s 1,000,000,000,000,000) operations […]

Making the Macintosh

The Stanford University Library’s Making the Macintosh is an online project documenting the history of the Macintosh computer. There’s lots of info, photos and interviews documenting the development of the mouse, graphical user interface and software dating back to 1979.

Generic Artificial Consciousness

GAC (Generic Artificial Consciousness), the Mindpixel Digital Mind Modeling Project, is the world’s first computer program to attempt to learn from the world wide community how to be artificially conscious. The project uses simple true/false questions to accumulate basic knowledge.

Jeff’s CodeZone

Jeff and I have been working on updating the design of his CodeZone site – it’s almost ready for all of you cheaters 🙂

The Amazing Randi

I really admire James Randi and his 30-year effort to debunk claims of the “paranormal, pseudoscientifc and the supernatural”. His weekly opinion is great reading, and his offer of “one million dollars in negotiable bonds waiting to be awarded to any individual or individuals who provide evidence under proper observing conditions of any psychic, supernatural, […]

How Stuff Works

I had forgotten how much I like How Stuff Works. Reading the question of the day can make your seem really smart to all your friends, or a little less stupid.

Exo-Skeletor Flying Vehicle

When I was a kid I would have given anything to own a SoloTrek XFV Exo-Skeletor Flying Vehicle, but now I can only think of how many ways you could die flying one of those things.

WAP Browser Emulator

At the other end of the timeline… Here’s a WAP browser emulator you can use to see how your page will look on a cell phone.

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