I love you, Google.

Thought Google Earth was cool? (If not, you should have.) Now you can do the same thing for Mars!. Well, almost. Right now, you can pan and zoom optical, infrared, and elevation maps of Mars. They are working on a Google Earth-like downloadable version. You can see the icecaps! It's so cool!

I recently had a dilemma: I wanted to transfer music from my iPod TO my computer. I tried moving a playlist from the former to the latter, no luck. With an eyebrow raised, I tried copying and pasting. No dice. With curses, I tried accessing the iPod through My Computer, only to find of course that songs loaded from iTunes are unreadable on their ( Read more... )

Ok, the two are unrelated, but I needed a short subject line;-)

Behind Curtain #1, the world's only hairy lobster(-like thing), recently discovered in the Pacific, and odd enough to warrant a new family and genus. The neat fellow's name is Kiwa hirsuta, after the goddess of crustaceans in Polynesian mythology. It isn't very large, and it's blind, ( Read more... )

I haven't much to say about this aside from look at this site: Slo Mo, Rappin' Retard.

So a friend set up a default Plone site on his server for me and after playing around, I decided that Plone is the best thing for the internet since electrons. It makes stuff so much easier and better looking, I can't describe it words. So anyway, I made a few customizations, added a bit of content, etc, and now all traffic to www.immortalcuriosity ( Read more... )

As of March 1, the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry will be serving up a new domain name system, i.e. one different from the globally-employed and US-controlled ICANN. Under the .CN (China) extension will now be .cn, .com, and .net. Yes, .com and .net. But not the ones you are used to. Instead, these will be under China's root, as ( Read more... )

A development that will likely be revolutionary: microprocessors without transistors. So transistors are cool because they can represent all the Boolean logic functions in a fast-acting electronic form right? And microprocessors are awesome because they can put LOTS of transistors in a rather tiny area right? Sure, sure. But: imagine being able to ( Read more... )

Work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on molecular computers. A very ingenious method of being able to perform binary addition using enzymes. The researchers believe this can be developed to the point where an enzyme-based computer could be employed in the human body to, for instance, calculate metabolic pathways and deliver precision dosages ( Read more... )

Finally, I get to be a star athlete:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114057973132579863-jmmN8nZQKIaWeC4g8Ek3y3JjvCM_20070222.html?mod=blogs

Although my awesome tech stuff project has been effectively moved to my new website, I had to share this. Go here. RIGHT NOW. This is the research of Jeff Han on touch screens that are sensitive to multiple contact points. That's right kids: Giant touchscreens you can interact with using both hands, and all fingers. Imagine: fondle your desktop. ( Read more... )