The Washington Post decides to find out what happens when a world famous violinist (Joshua Bell) plays anonymously in the L'Enfant Plaza metro station ( Read more... )

Happy New Year everyone!

A new dinosour has been named Dracorex hogwartsia, or The Dragon King of Hogwarts:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060522/hogwartsdino_din.html?source=rss

My How Stuff Works news feed just made a rather amusing error:


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Got home from Manchester Saturday. I spent a week training our UK office and some staff from our Netherlands office on new software. The training went very well, and I had a great time on the trip.  Pictures are up at http://www.nalyd.com/photos/v/Manchester .A few highlights:

1. Manchester is not what I thought of when thinking of ( Read more... )

New York Underground. A look at the underground structures and infrastructure that lies beneath NYC.

Thinking Machine 4:

Chess program that maps out all the moves the computer is considering while it is thinking.

Time Magazine just put out a list of "The top 100 novels of all time". "All time" being 1923 to present...

The Complete List | TIME Magazine - ALL-TIME 100 Novels

I suspected Lord of the Rings and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, would be on the list, but was pleasantly surprised to see both Snow Crash and Nuromancer listed as well.

Finally uploaded my pictures from my trip to Kuala Lumpua. They are at http://nalyd.com/photos/v/kl-trip


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Wow! One of the tortoises that Darwin collected from the Galapagos Islands is still alive at 175 years old.