Monday, November 22, 2010

The Illusion of Control

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about the Singularity -- when machines might wrest intellectual power from us humans and take us into even more un...

Yucca Mountain Spotted Fever #3

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One last follow-up to this whole Yucca Mountain / NRC / ASLB thing ... I never did get a response back directly from Senator Inhofe, which...
Sunday, November 7, 2010

Yucca Mountain Spotted Fever #2

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Back in February, I posted about the shenanigans that are taking place around the Yucca Mountain issue.  To summarize, the Department of En...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

Fire, Sheep, and Fox

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About a week ago, a new tool was released to the internet, called Firesheep .  To me, there's just something funny about the name.  Shee...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

When your only tool's a hammer ...

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... all the world looks like a nail. The above quote is attributed to Abraham Maslow , and it rings true time and time again.  In this par...
Monday, October 18, 2010

The Singularity

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There's a concept among futurists and science fiction folks known as The Singularity.  While there is no formal definition, it goes some...
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Google Day!

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In about two weeks, we'll have an important date that I want to celebrate.  And I want the internet to help celebrate it with me: 10/1...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Failing Gracefully

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The internet is broken.  I blame cascading style sheets. To explain the above (somewhat inflammatory) comment, I need to explain something...