Author: buridan

New Scientist Breaking News – 'Rewired brain' revives patient after 19 years

New Scientist Breaking News – ‘Rewired brain’ revives patient after 19 years: Surprisingly, the circuits look nothing like normal brain anatomy. A lot of the damage had been to axons that passed from one side of the brain to the other, torn by the force of the accident. But Schiff says that new connections seem […]

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BOM

BOM: The Bacon of the Month Club is the greatest of all gifts. I’m not making that up. I get calls from customers all the time that tell me this. In my humble opinion no other club in the universe gives you as much pleasure and sheer delight as The Bacon of the Month Club. […]

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nyt: chinese and american learning of math and science or… how how policy documents legitimize regimes

http://www.prattsenate.org/nytimes_07_02_06.htm http://www.internationaled.org/mathsciencereport.htm http://www.pekingduck.org/archives/003837.php to the NYT articles and letters above…. I respond thusly: I tend to agree more with the Letters, than with the nyt article and even less so with the report. I think we have to be very careful about accounting for the cultural institutionalization of learning in China and the U.S. We […]

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ianhenderson.org – megazoomer

ianhenderson.org – megazoomer: Megazoomer makes windows full-screen. Just press Command-Enter, and the front-most window grows to fill your entire monitor. Press the same keys, and it shrinks again. Like Graffiti, you have to download SIMBL in order for it to work. —— sweet tool.

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unpredictability…

My Robot Brain Needs Beer: Leslie Powell: ——- the robots are missing!

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rumor has it

that <a href=”http://lemmingworks.org/weblog/”>professor nolan</a> is having a birthday on the 7th of july. or that’s what amazon says.

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come watch the shuttle launch on kula

SLurl: Location-Based Linking in Second Life:

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Postfix Monitoring With Mailgraph And pflogsumm

Postfix Monitoring With Mailgraph And pflogsumm: This article describes how you can monitor your Postfix mailserver with the tools Mailgraph and pflogsumm. ——– handy.

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Mike Ferner: Has This Country Gone Completely Insane?

Mike Ferner: Has This Country Gone Completely Insane? : And just for the record? I’m not paying the fine. I’ll see Adkins and Ousley and Dubya’s Director of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, if he wants to show up, in United States District Court on the appointed date. And if there’s a Chicago area attorney […]

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Paper Airplanes – the best origami paper planes to fold and fly

Paper Airplanes – the best origami paper planes to fold and fly: Best Paper Airplanes .com is a free site that illustrates how to make unique folded paper planes that you’ll find nowhere else – because these ten models are original, copyrighted designs. Some are easy to make, some are flying origami as well as […]

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