Archive for the 'Science & Technology' Category

Intimate Genetic Portraiture

Monday, December 26th, 2005

Cooper Union Alumni Kevin Clarke is having another show of his genetic portraits. His portraits begin with the DNA analysis of a swab of check tissue or a hair root. He then over lays their genetic code with carefully selected images that relate to the subject. While he is definitely onto something new with these [...]

Rise of the BlogBots

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

We got spammed with a couple of “buy viagra” comments on our blog the other day (see below). I wonder how common this is? Those viagra sellers will do anything to promote their product. Can you imagine when the AI in BlogBots gets a bit better? We’ll have BlogBots scanning the pages of MySpace, Livejournals, [...]

On the Blog Feed Front: MS to Follow the FireFox lead

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

Microsoft agreed to use the Firefox’s RSS icon as a standard in their new browser due in 2006. The icon ” ” in the Firefox browser appears on your browser when a page you are visiting contains an rss feed. by clicking that icon you can add that page in to your bookmarks as [...]

Clocky! Where’d You Go??

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Alright who needed one of these this morning?

Leave it to the brains at M.I.T. to design Clocky, a clock that hides when you hit the snooze button. Although the buzz about Clocky has been circilating for a while, I just recently noticed that Clocky won the Ig Nobel Prize in October 2005, go [...]