A New Way To Look At Networking is a video recorded for Google Tech Talks. It features Van Jacobson and he shows, in a very fascinating point of view, how the Internet evolved and where he thinks it should evolve to. (via Digg)
Lifehacker (main website link), one of my favorite blogs in my RSS reading list, posted a top 10 list of body hacks. A body hack is something nice or useful to do with your body. Finally I know what I can do when I get an ice cream headache.
In Sao Paulo, Brazil, the advertisers did not adhere to the city’s rules on outdoor advertising. In return, the city banned outdoor advertising entirely. So what does an 11-million citizens city look like without advertising? You can read a little more about it here or go directly to this set of pictures. We hear about [...]
Every time I hear someone claiming that Microsoft is dead I roll my eyes and try to stay calm while listening to a whole lot of nonsense. Recently, Paul Graham (famous hacker and also a partner in venture firm Y Combinator) wrote that Microsoft Is Dead. While I usually distance myself from such clear cut [...]
There’s been a lot of hype lately regarding invisibility (cloaking) technologies. It’s amazing how, for years, scientists have been trying to create cloaking devices/clothes without success and now suddenly there are so many different technologies that achieve more or less the same result. Here is a very interesting review of cloaking technologies. (via Digg)
Steorn, the company I wrote about yesterday (previous post link), released the update about their ground breaking technology called Orbo. You can watch Steorn’s update on YouTube. What their doing is letting a “scientific jury” comprised of 22 well respected and trusted scientists examine their technology, which uses magnetic fields to produce free and clean [...]
There’s a company named Steorn (main website link), which announced that tomorrow, April 13th 2007, they will release the results of the tests of their product, Orbo, which is a technology that creates energy and essentially denies the first law of thermodynamics. The first law of thermodynamics basically says that energy cannot be created – [...]
Computerworld published a 21 items long list of the biggest technology flops. Most of them I remember, some of them were gone even before I realized there was a technology world. I even remember thinking that some were good ideas at the time. It’s an interesting read. It’s amazing how Microsoft Bob gets a spot [...]
I don’t drink alcohol, but if you’re looking to get a free drink in a bar, here are 5 ways to hustle free drinks. One of them is actually physics-based and another is geometry-based. Just one warning, though: for some of those tricks to work you need to be a charming woman and find some [...]
The New York Times magazine published a list of questions couples should ask (or wish they had) before marrying. They included a list of 15 key questions from “relationship experts”. While the list is interesting and seems pretty much like what you’d expect, I was surprised to see number 7: 7) Will there be a [...]