The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon

Bravo.

The latest release of the popular Ubuntu distribution of Linux is 6.10, a.k.a. Edgy Eft, a decedent of Dapper Drake and, before that, Breezy Badger. The next release will be Feisty Fawn. Badger, drake, fawn…what the crap is an eft? A young newt, it turns out.
It took a little while to get [...]

It appears that calorie restricted diets do not dramatically expand your lifespan as I had mentioned in my previous post. Phew! So I can go on to guiltlessly eat as much as I damned well please and still live as long as I’m bound to live.

I want to live forever, or at least as long as humanly possible. Unfortunately, there are no wonder-drugs, RNA treatments, body-regeneration treatments, transplants, magicians, or apothecaries with the power to gift me that wish. The best science has come up with is the Calorie Restricted diet. In simple terms, you eat very, very [...]

The Baron spent about 20 minutes last night trying to get some leftover pasta in the middle of our coffee table. It was one of the cutest and funniest things I’ve ever seen. I captured some of it and uploaded it to video on YouTube. He’s brought so much joy and entertainment [...]

Over at Planet RDF” there have been two responses to a post proposing to get rid of RDF in Mozilla 2.0 (which corresponds to Firefox 4.0).
As the Planet RDF posts state, the main problem with RDF support in Mozilla currently is that it’s old and ugly. Being part of a rather large semantic web [...]

This report on a clearly subjective list of the dumbest congressmen is pretty frightening. The elite in America are definitely not those writing its laws, sadly.

Centauri Dreams describes an interesting solution in a recent paper by Didier Massonnet and Benoît Meyssignac (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, France) to the very real possibility that our beloved Earth will be pummeled by some large, hard, ridiculously fast object at some point before the sun goes nova, some 4 billion years from now. [...]

Every Yankee fan on Earth has some ideas of how to gain more than middling success in the post-season next year. Ben had a good take on it, and I’m going to throw in my 2 cents.
A. Rod
An article in the New York Times made the suggestion:
At the risk of sounding indulgent, this bromide may [...]

Sean pointed me to the GLScube project a couple months ago. They are four Egyptians putting together a semantic file system for Linux. They have recently made the decision to rewrite their system following a 0.1 version release, and have also started a development blog, which should be interesting to follow. Their [...]