Chronological neat Weblog/Links

Cool: paper published April 30, 2009 :: I helped my friend Kyle with writing some Python code to do clustering of GPS data for his Biology PHd project. He has published the following paper which has my name on it also; pretty ...

TED2009: Barry Schwartz February 23, 2009 :: An interesting TED 2009 talk by Barry Schwartz, a psychologist ostensibly analying "the financial crisis" and speaking about "a society gone mad with bureaucracy". Some quotes I wrote while...

Lamarkian evolution not horseshit afterall? February 16, 2009 :: A new study finds that acquired traits can actually be passed on -- better known as "Lamarkian evolution", widely "debunked" and ridiculed as early as high school. ``In Feig's study,...

Etch-a-Sketch marathon art June 12, 2007 :: Holy cock-balls. Some dude (James Lebron) took a time-lapse video of him drawing a pretty impressive etch-a-sketch picture over the course of 5 hours.

Cadence-only bike computer April 17, 2007 :: A nice little set of instructions to turn a "normal" bike-computer into a cadence-only one (my feeling match the author's: I haven't ridden with a bike computer in probably a decade [since...

Settler-era Sourdough Starter February 09, 2007 :: Cool! Someone named Carl has been preserving a sourdough starter passed on to through his family. It is thought to date to from the mid-1800's. For the "price" of a self-addressed-stamed...

Disrupting cancer cells' energy January 18, 2007 :: A healthy cell relies on its mitochondria (descendants of bacteria that took up residence in the single-celled ancestors of animals and plants about 2 billion years ago) to oxidise...

RFID credit cards easily hacked October 24, 2006 :: So-called "next-generation" or "contactless" credit cards with RFID tags are easily hacked to glean their information. This could be used to clone the credit card easily. Tom...

Willie's Stash October 17, 2006 :: Photos of Willie Nelson's stash when he was busted somewhat-recently in LA.

Honey for wounds July 27, 2006 :: ``A household remedy millennia old is being reinstated: honey helps the treatment of some wounds better than the most modern antibiotics. For several years now medical experts from the ...