This is very cool next generation video conferencing, though it feels on a bit of digging like it is essentially a vast back projection kit.
Monthly Archive for May, 2008
Interesting slant on the male / female brains debate: female reporting of memories has more speech content. I have certainly noticed that I try to summarise what happened (often in too few words) and that Wiffy will replay situations in a shorthand but verbatim manner.
Shion looks like a nice way of X10ing your home. I´ll never get round to it though. OpenFlashChart is a nice open source charting application – a little like the Google REST version. I love the rationale for doing it – don´t mess with your customers.
I love the idea that 95% of people "spending time" on a farm are less tired – they clearly weren´t mucking in. Wiffy suggests we should go walking on the weekend because of this. She´s probably right.
Sadly it is a Conan O´Brien gag rather than a real Bushism: Today, at the White House, President Bush signed a proclamation declaring this Malaria Awareness Week. There was an awkward moment when, during the ceremony, Bush said, "This is a great day for all Malarians."
Suitable retro look and feel, tells you how long you have to wait, clearly comprehended. It would be like driving on the left – it would never happen.
While the conclusions are all correct (no link between autism and MMR in this study), the way of presenting it isn´t. How do we explain why issues like confounding are important, and why you can´t just take a papers figures and fiddle with them – you need to go back to the source.
Interesting question: why do we accept faxed (and therefore easily fakable) signatures? Answer: because it is still hard to do any real damage / commit real fraud using them.
This is probably fake science. But even so: it appears that one should shake a Martini, rather than stirring it. I have certainly experienced the "colder than ice" effect – I nearly had my hand stuck to the shaker the first time I tried to make one for Wiffy.
SuperDuper is a nice looking backup tool for the Mac. I´m not sure I trust Time Machine, and it runs too often for me, as I don´t use the Mac for day-to-day work.