The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
A touchscreen with keys that rise and disappear
http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/06/a-touchscreen-with-keys-that-rise-and-disappear/?hpt=hp_bn5
I am almost curious enough to explore the technology behind this. It seems rather amazing that you can have actual buttons at will, but I am aware of several substances that …
We Can Tame the Debt Without Breaking Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/we-can-tame-the-debt-without-killing-entitlements-20120607
Interestingly, as the article points out, everyone wants to focus on the disastrous upper bound where the debt reaches multiples of GDP in a couple of decades, …
Could these strange new microbes survive on Mars?
http://www.tgdaily.com/space-features/63941-could-these-strange-new-microbes-survive-on-mars
As our ability to better detect the presence of life increases in sensitivity, the locations where we find life increasingly making it easy to wonder if there are any locations on …
Moderation as the Sweet Spot for Exercise
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/moderation-as-the-sweet-spot-for-exercise/
So, what would you give for an extra 6 years of healthy life (if you are a guy, ‘only’ 5.6 for women)? Would you get up off your ass and go for …
Probing Obama’s secrecy games
Will high-level Obama officials who leak for political gain be punished on equal terms with actual whistleblowers?
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/07/probing_obamas_secrecy_games/
Another in a long series of complaints about our police state. I know that it is pointless to …
I will be slow to post for a while. I got authorisation from my beautiful wife to cut my regular hours to part-time so I could work on some research for a while. Initially I thought I would have several …
After much dilly dallying I finally got motivated to update the web site for our greenhouse / pool construction project:
http://sol-system.com/koxenrider/property/greenhousepool/spring12update/index.html
I am way more motivated now that I can see progress from each weekend’s worth of effort. There was …
Stuxnet, Flamer, Flame, Whatever Name: There’s no good malware
http://blog.eset.com/2012/06/03/stuxnet-flamer-flame-whatever-name-there-is-no-good-malware
I commented on my feelings on Stuxnet before, but thought I would post the above article as it does an excellent job of stating what I was attempting to …
It is sad that our country has got to this point, and somehow I doubt this petition will do a damn bit of good, but please read this article and then consider signing the petition:
Please don’t kill me, Obama…
Why We Lie
We like to believe that a few bad apples spoil the virtuous bunch. But research shows that everyone cheats a little—right up to the point where they lose their sense of integrity.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304840904577422090013997320.html
This is a really …