Mar 8, 2009
Oct 5, 2008
Kaust supercomputer ambitions
PC World - Saudi Arabia unveils grand supercomputer ambitions: "Saudi Arabia unveils grand supercomputer ambitions
Plans a petascale system and more as it seeks top spot on supercomputing's list"
Yep, its brains not oil that's gonna be the next thing we need.
via realitycarnival
Jul 24, 2008
Jun 13, 2008
Digital Camera/Printer
Gadgets for Fun Blog ZINK Integrated Digital Camera/Printer
This is a fun blog I found.
via Toxel.com
Supercomputer
Supercomputer breaks speed record | Technology | The Guardian: "As an indication of how fast this is, manufacturers explained that if 6 billion people were to do one sum a second on calculator, it would take 46 years to do what RoadRunner could do in a day. The world's first supercomputer, the Cray 1 built in the mid-1970s, would take 1,500 years to finish a calculation that Roadrunner would perform in two hours."
Jun 12, 2008
Jun 9, 2008
Jun 4, 2008
Apr 25, 2008
A name to learn.
Grace Hopper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mother of computers. See Father of the Internet. I don't think they dated.
Apr 15, 2008
When the internet is good it is very very good.
Amazon tribe enlists Google in battle with illegal loggers: "You may know it as Google, but in bamboo-and-thatch roundhouses deep in the Amazon rainforest the iconic brand goes by another name. The Surui people, one of the most remote on Earth, call it ragogmakan – 'messenger' – and they're banking on the search engine to save them and their ancestral lands from extinction."
via Digg
Apr 14, 2008
Um, like, its about time!
So when are they going to make TV wallpaper is what I want to know.
Light Emitting Wallpaper by Jonas Samon
Apr 13, 2008
Finally, what we have all been waiting for, vat grown meat! Yum.
Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too?
I guess the Eat Local idea wont work for the nine billion people of the world so this is the answer. The meat industry makes me afraid. via Digg
"The world has seen the first international conference on manufacturing meat. This is the process, tested so far only at laboratory scale, of growing pork, chicken, or beef through cell culture in vats instead of raising and slaughtering animals."
Muscle cells (in this case mouse) can be cultured in the lab.
(Karim Sultan/Utrecht University) 
Put it together with a dash of Nanotech and a pinch of totalitarianism...
IEEE Spectrum: Behold the Flying Robots
How does that old curse go? "May you live in interesting times".
Apr 11, 2008
Truely Obnoxious/ Interesting MOMA exhibit
Design and the Elastic Mind
WHY?! o WHY?! do artists and designers think this kind of website makes sense to people?
Unfortunately this also has some interesting stuff if you can stand the "design".
Apr 8, 2008
Visual History, my favorite kind.
The history of computer data storage, in pictures
It is kinda like researching the history of how the bible came to be the way it is. Unless you stretch your brain, it is easy to think we always had microchips.
Another wonderful link from good 'ol Boing.
http://royal.pingdom.com/
Apr 7, 2008
An older article, but still interesting;
Fiction, not science : "Kasabov, president-elect of the International Neural Network Society, is a world leader in developing artificial neural networks - computer systems that consist of small processing units that are connected like neurons."
Apr 6, 2008
Proust was a Neuroscientist you know!
The Birth of a Brain Cell: Scientists Witness Neurogenesis: Scientific American
I was given the book "Proust Was a Scientist" for Xmas (thanks brotha!) and it was incredible. It was poetic and informative at the same time, a rare combo. There was a chapter that dealt with memory and neurogenesis that was inspiring.