Category: miscellaneous

The DNA so dangerous it does not exist – life – 03 January 2007 – New Scientist Further down the line there is the possibility of constructing a “suicide gene” to code for deadly amino acid primes. It could be attached to genetically modified organisms and activated to destroy them at a later date if…

Although I have joking referred to replicators in some of my posts on social production, it looks like some people are spending some serious time trying to figure out how to actually build them.  Not only that, they are making policy recommendations to avoid some Terminator like future.  It looks like 2020 will be the…

Looks like Sealand is up for sale transfer.  Maybe I haven’t gone far enough in moving to the ex-urbs…maybe a principality is what I really need.  Of course that would get vetoed for this particular “island” as there doesn’t look to be much grass for the horses. Boing Boing: Report: Sealand is for sale (or…

Of course I knew that there would be no TDI’s (aka Diesels) coming from Volkswagen or any other car manufacturer in states in 2007 and that there would be new models coming along in 2008 when I bought it, so this isn’t that big of a surprise.  However it looks like VW has revealed the…

While I have dabbled with Google Reader since the September update, I have as of the new year made the switch from NewsGator Online. I finally took the time to move over my most up to date OPML file and have most of my feeds synchronized from a read/unread perspective. A few reasons for the…

.!. I have been toying with the idea of getting either a Mac notebook or one of the next generation UMPCs (Origami was such a better name!).  According to Apple Insider I won’t be able to get both in one device.  I hate having to make decisions like this.  Maybe I should just upgrade the…

I just finished a very interesting novel by Peter Watt’s called Blindsight.  I read it entirely on my Tablet PC (an HP TC4400) via the PDF that he provides on this web site.  It’s been a while since I’ve read any pure fiction (The 9-11 commission report comes to mind) and this novel was a…

I got turned on to these a few months back from a Fast Company article and have replaced almost all my non-exposed socket bulbs with them.  I must admit that I did it more for budgetary than environmental reasons, but I think there is a lesson there: more people will become conscious of their impact…

Back at work after 18 days off. I’m feeling almost European! Got lots done over the break, although not all of the projects I had planned were successfully completed. Things that were done: The 2 new horse stalls got roughed in. As mentioned in a previous post if you ever have the chance to use…