Sunday, December 31, 2006

The fatal flaw in distributing encrypted media

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The new HD-DVD encryption scheme has been partially, but not completely, broken. Studios’ DVDs Face a Crack in Security - New York Times ......

They deserved better leadership ...

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The NYT today profiled a few of the American soldiers who've died recently in Iraq. Sergeant Fry was the last story of the article: A Gr...

Convergence: HDTV LCDs and Computer LCDs

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One day we figured computer displays and TV displays would converge. Jeff Atwood says the day is now . I agree about the UI issues with hi r...
Friday, December 29, 2006

Gulf War II: The critic's view summarized

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The New York Review of Books: Iraq: The War of the Imagination summarizes the Woodward, Suskind and Risen on the Bush administration's ...
Thursday, December 28, 2006

The strange economics of PC Games: why are so many junk?

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Amazon.com: Cars Radiator Springs Adventures (Win/Mac) sells for $18. My son wants it, but the reviews on both Amazon and the Apple website ...

Free Will RIP - The Economist on preemptive punishment

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It has begun. "Free Will" was a convenient fiction; the transmutation of the Soul into something that could live, for a time, with...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Levitating globes, calculators and $18 digital cameras

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DeLong notes how cheap computing changes the economics of toy construction: Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily J...

Die smarter? Longevity genes, Alzheimer's and gambling with Faust

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The 'related links' section of this SciAm summary are also of interest: Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Single ...
Monday, December 25, 2006

Keeping up with the metagenome

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Biology has changed a bit since the day -- and yet not so much. In my 1970s biology classes ecosystems and emergent interactions were very f...

Fertility and wealth: a paradox resolved?

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The wealthier and more powerful women become, the fewer children they have. I've heard dozens of explanations for this seemingly biologi...
Thursday, December 21, 2006

Racism is alive and public in Virginia's Republican representative

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Of course racism never went away in American culture or politics, but for years it was at least disguised. Virgil Goode Jr, the GOP represen...

UK robotics report: why you should really read science fiction

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As a proper geek-child, I was very fond of comic books and science fiction. I also took a typing class, which in my day was considered the p...

MS and sunlight

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Twenty years ago I remember a medical school lecturer mentioning that MS had a peculiar latitudinal distribution based on where a person gre...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Laws that are universally disobeyed

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How many people who bought two way radios for their children this Christmas have gotten their FCC licenses? Motorola Talkabout FV200 AAA Rad...

AOL and Yahoo: email down the tubes

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AOL has been on a long slow death spiral for about 10 years, but I didn't realize Yahoo was in dire straits until I read this announceme...