Month: January 2008
-
The Office meets Harvard
[*The Department*](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3833875541020589090&hl=en). Ah, Academic Politics. They’re only so vicious because the stakes are so low.
-
MacWorld recap
OK, how did the predictions go? Not so good… * Something unguessed: Nope, not really. * Micro laptop: [Yes](http://www.apple.com/au/macbookair/). You want to know what’s cruel? I can’t buy one for a month or so. Stupid FBT ‘one laptop a year’ limit – don’t they know it’s Macworld? * iPhone SDK stuff with other things: kinda.…
-
Productivity enhancements
[DARPA is developing a nasal spray to remove the negative consequences of not getting enough sleep](http://gizmodo.com/338459/darpa-developing-sleep+replacing-nasal-spray-opens-the-door-to-20+hour-workdays). Very happy to volunteer for the clinical trials on this one…
-
Urgently needed
[A blanked that warms or cools your bed](http://gizmodo.com/336850/chilipad-regulates-bed-temperature-you-supply-the-hotness). Astonishingly expensive, but I need to get one of these *right now*.
-
Official Presidential endorsement
[This Blog has decided to officially endorse Ralph Wiggum for President of the United States](http://www.thesimpsons.com/wiggum/). I believe I can safely say he’d be better than a lot of the people currently running.
-
Free secrets
[The complete text of *Applied Cryptography*](http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/index.html). Not for the faint-of-math.
-
Environmental friendly supercomputing
[A bicycle-powered supercomputer](http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/the-bicycle-powered-supercomputer/). I’m worried. I’m working on a computing project at the moment related to climate change, and this could look very attractive to management as a way to offset our carbon emissions.
-
Waiting for Apple
Some wild speculation about the [Apple](http://www.apple.com) Macworld keynote that happens Tuesday morning (late Wednesday evening Australian time). * There hasn’t been a lot of information to leak out of Apple for this one, so chances are everyone guessing is very wrong – one of the big announcements will be something nobody anticipated. * That said,…
-
Coming Soon: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
[Just a poster so far](http://www.indianajones.com/site/media/downloads/posters/ij4-poster5.jpg). Coming May 22 (hopefully including Australia).
-
The best reason for an iPhone
[A native iPhone interpreter for Lucasfilm games](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/iphone-gaming/native-lucasarts-games-emulation-makes-iphone-absolutely-perfect-326257.php). This is completely fantastic, and will be the first third-party application I install if I ever get an iPhone.