Just returned to Beijing after a little mini-visit to Chongqing and Shanghai. The trip was good; Chongqing is probably the #1 up-and-coming city in China, and Shanghai, it turns out, is much better when you have friends there. (Go figure.)
This being my second visit to Shanghai, I wasn’t as concerned with traipsing around […]

I wanted to wait for a bit before writing about this, to avoid writing something silly while getting caught up in the hysteria. Also, I had decided a while back that this wasn’t going to be a geek blog, but, geek that I am, it’s time to break the rules.
This is a week that […]

In a nutshell, according to optics.org: Japanese researchers have figured out a way to etch data onto fingernails.
Thiis conjures all sorts of interesting ideas, which for me are revolving about Hollywood “action thriller” screenplays. You wake up in a dark room…you have no idea where you are….but all of a sudden, strange things start to […]

More cool mind control stuff.
Not “mind control” like…The Man controlling your mind. No, this means you controlling things with your mind. (Just felt I had to clear that up.)
The BBC is reporting today about a guy in the USA who became paralyzed after a stabbing, and who underwent surgery to implant electrodes into […]

This is pretty much the coolest thing I have ever read.
(Well, this week, anyway.)
Scientists at Duke University have gotten monkeys to control a robotic arm with only their thoughts, after they cut open their skulls and jammed a bunch of wires into their brains. Of course, they need to get this running wirelessly, but […]

I dislike ceremony, tradition. Things like graduation ceremonies, marriage ceremonies, etc. and so on. These things generally bore the hell out of me at the same time as they perplex me.
The reason why I loathe them is that they just become rote behavior…like…OK, maybe in the first marriage ceremony it was touching that […]

In a fairly recent Ars Technica article, John Siracusa layed out in great detail his issues with the Mac OS X Finder, and argued that Apple needs to clean it up by restoring what he has termed “The Spatial Finder”. I could probably write a ten page thesis on this, but I’ll try to […]

It seems Microsoft has resorted to pathetic tactics to try to win favor with the Attorneys General in the states where they are contesting their monopoly status, as this Newsfactor story details.
It’s amazing to me that a company whose products have touched so many people could be as universally reviled as they are. About […]