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| Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com. |
| Nanomicrophones |
| 2:46:07 am mst / 2 January 2001 found by paul / filed in nanotechnology / source Business Week 45 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Researchers at JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) believe they can design tiny acoustic sensors based on the microscopic hair-like cilia in cells rather than vibrating membranes. |
| Yet another (potential) application of carbon nanotubules! |
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| Virus infection rates soar |
| 8:11:04 am mst / 2 January 2001 found by paul / filed in security / source The Register 45 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Approximately 1 in 700 e-mails contains a virus, which is up from 1 in 2000 a year ago, according to a recent report from MessageLabs. |
| The full report is available here. (As usual, some might argue that MessageLabs has a vested interest in exaggerating the threat. Caveat emptor.) |
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| Pet Peeves |
| 9:44:11 am mst / 2 January 2001 found by paul / filed in business / source San Jose Mercury News 57 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| As the tech industry matures, many Silicon Valley dotcoms are revising their previously infamous liberal policies allowing pets at work, either severely restricting or banning pets entirely. |
| Curiously enough, this has occurred both as a result of failure and success. Some of the pet friendly business have simply gone bankrupt (presumably for reasons unrelated to their pet policies). Others dotcoms that have succeeded have moved into fancier accomodations where the building owners don't allow pets. |
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| Darwin Awards 2000 |
| 3:46:23 pm mst / 2 January 2001 found by diana / filed in humor / source Darwin Awards 367 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Thanks to a reminder from The Register, we just realized that the new Darwin Awards are in! The grand prize for 2000 was awarded to, among others, a guy who fell into his wood chipper while trying to break up a jam without disconnecting the power. |
| This winner not only promoted evolutionay efficiency, but also economic efficiency, as he was the owner of the chipping company! |
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| Man killed by sacrificial sheep |
| 6:20:24 pm mst / 2 January 2001 found by paul / filed in humor / source Reuters News 117 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| From the article: "An Egyptian sheep destined for sacrificial slaughter forestalled its owner's plans by pushing him to his death from a three-story building"... |
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| Parents attempt to clone dead daughter |
| 8:28:46 pm mst / 2 January 2001 found by paul / filed in science / source Fox News 169 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| From the article: "An American couple whose infant daughter died last year during a routine heart operation is trying to bring her back to life through cloning." |
| By itself this is sort of bizarre, but what really creeps me out is the participation of the UFO cultists from Clonaid. |
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