I'll admit, I'm kind of a Google fanboy. Of course, they make some mistakes (the Buzz rollout that exposed some private information of Gmail users) and engage in practices I'm not completely in favor of (lobbying for net neutrality legislation), but in spite of that, Google is pretty awesome. They support open source. They provide [...]
Archive for the 'Uncategorized' Category
Google’s not perfect, but they’re not evil
Published by February 19th, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsMy first experience at In-N-Out Burger
Published by February 19th, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsLas Vegas. Double-double and fries, Animal Style. Everything I hoped it would be.
Posted via email from Tatrocalypse!
Posted via email from Tatrocalypse!
Post on questioning the “uncanny valley”
Published by January 21st, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsOver at my transhumanist blog, HumanPl.us, I've got a post up on questioning the "uncanny valley" – the idea that the more human-like robots appear, the creepier they get. (The concept also applies to CG characters in movies and video games. Abstract characters? Cuuute! More "realistic" characters? Not so much.) Interestingly, there's no research supporting [...]
New York Times profiles “modern cavemen”
Published by January 12th, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsAs far as diet goes, I've done a complete one-eighty in terms of beliefs and action. In college, I was a vegan. Now animal meat makes up a large part of my diet, and I can even be found, on occasion, pigging out on organ meats my friends think are absolutely gross.
Part of this [...]
Site updates: mini-linkblog in sidebar and new “About” page
Published by January 14th, 2007 in RSS, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, Web/Internet and Weblogs. 0 CommentsJust a quick aside/update: My five most recent Google Reader shared items can now be found in the sidebar.
Also, the “About” page, which had serious formatting issues, is now fixed and readable.
Yay. I’ve got Wordpress running now and I’ll try to work more on getting things running tomorrow. But for now it’s 1:36 in the a.m., which means work time is over.
UPDATE: I’ve got theme up, links, all posts from the old blog… Oh, and RSS is live. I’m getting closer! I tried to make sure [...]
There’s been a lot of chatter on the Web lately about the humble press
release. I refuse to believe the press release is a thing of the past, but I do agree that many releases are far too "fluffy." If a reporter can’t scan the release and pick out the important information, then the release isn’t [...]
I’ve been out of town for a bit, and Internet access isn’t always a given, so I haven’t been able to post or even keep up on technology or PR news. To be honest, all of my news-watching habits have been more or less dominated by information coming out of New Orleans in the wake [...]
NASA’s “Deep Impact” Mission Success for Science, Agency’s Image
Published by July 4th, 2005 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsI was glad to hear that NASA’s "Deep Impact" mission was a complete success this morning. Aside from the obvious scientific benefit, it gives NASA some good (and much-needed) PR. NASA has certainly had its problems, and the Columbia explosion in 2003 didn’t help much. The Mars Rover mission has been a remarkable success, however, [...]
