BurningbirdThe only domains I’m keeping are burningbird.net, shelleypowers.com, and missourigreen.com. Burningbird is my major site, I’m turning the shelleypowers.com into an online CV, resume, what have you, and developing MissouriGreen more fully. One unique feature of Missouri Green is that most of the site resources will be hosted on Amazon’s S3. I’ve already tried out […]
Kimberly Blessing has a good follow up discussion on the recent diversity discussion. She specifically pointed out something I also noticed, and it had to do with Robert Scoble’s comment to my post. Robert wrote: One thing about Digg and TechMeme (and, really, Megite and TailRank too): they reward networkers. How do you get links? Learn to beg […]
The editing process can be fraught with possibilities for humor, especially when looking at typos. In one example, the text of the sample web site talked about “Poor the margarita into a glass”, leading to expressions of sympathy from my editors. My favorite so far, though, is “Transversing collections of data..” instead of “Traversing collections […]
More cephaloporn thanks to Mr. Moult, who is also the happy owner of the einsteinslock.com domain. The site linked has some wonderful, though short, videos of Taningia danae, eight armed squid, captured recently by Tsunemi Kubodera. They demonstrate how amazingly quick and aggressive squid can be. When you consider how big the colossal was that was recently recovered, […]
What an absolutely beautiful fish. From Galactic Interactions: Gravity as the curvature of spacetime— it’s such a simple, elegant, beautiful concept that it almost pains me to think that efforts to unify gravity with quantum mechanics may result in our learning that General Relativity is just the effective limit of a deeper theory (much as Newton’s gravity is […]