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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. |
| Clean Your Bathroom with Slugs |
| 12:14:17 am mst / 19 March 2001 found by diana / filed in science / source New Scientist 94 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Fark pointed us towards this amusing July 2000 article on using slugs and other small, icky creatures in order to keep mold, mosquitos, and termites at bay. |
| Seems to defeat the purpose of a house if a whole ecosystem is being invited in! |
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| Pournelle on Nanotechnology |
| 6:54:40 am mst / 19 March 2001 found by paul / filed in nanotechnology / source Byte 109 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Science fiction writer and Byte columnist Jerry Pournelle gives a good overview of the future of nanotechnology. One interesting point he brings up (based on a talk by George Whitesides) is that the multidisciplinary nature of the field may require a very different research paradigm than our current university system. (Link via SciTech Daily.) |
| Very optimistic article! |
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| End of the Freebies |
| 9:15:51 am mst / 19 March 2001 found by paul / filed in business / source Washington Post 248 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Last year, college student Jim Reardon was able to equip a nice home office with an extensive set of freebies from internet companies. But now the gravy train has derailed... |
| It must have been nice while it lasted... |
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| More on Sun's asynchronous chips |
| 12:45:27 pm mst / 19 March 2001 found by paul / filed in inventions / source EE Times 107 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Researchers at Sun presented more information about their proposed new asynchronous chip architecture. The article provides details that weren't available when this earlier article was written. |
| If today's chips underutilize silicon resources by a factor of 20, then this approach could buy as many as 4-5 more iterations of Moore's Law. |
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| Irish Internet Proverbs |
| 3:11:38 pm mst / 19 March 2001 found by paul / filed in humor / source ZDNet 217 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| In honor of St. Patrick's Day, John T. Mulqueen has collected a set of old Irish proverbs appropriate for the internet era. |
| Some are a little too true... |
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| How Universal Translators Will Work |
| 7:41:54 pm mst / 19 March 2001 found by paul / filed in wearables / source How Stuff Works 77 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Another excellent article from "How Stuff Will Work", this time describing how the upcoming wearable translator from ViA will do its thing. Through a combination of speech recognition technology and rapid dictionary lookup, it will translate between English and other languages with a 5 second delay, as well as translating the response back into English. |
| The languages available include Korean, Serbian, Arabic, Thai, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portugese, and Spanish. I wonder how long it will take until some clever Star Trek fans develop a module for Klingon? |
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| Become a genius with transcranial magnetic stimulation |
| 11:20:07 pm mst / 19 March 2001 found by paul / filed in science / source BBC News 137 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Transdot pointed us towards this BBC article which described how Australian scientists were able to improve the memory, math skills, and artistic abilities in normal people by applying "transcranial magnetic stimulation" to a certain portion of the brain. |
| I wonder how long the benefits last after the stimluation has ended? |
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