On Sunday Ninjasaurus Rex and I grabbed a quick game of Rapid Fire, I told him to come over at one, but true to form he arrived at two... Dane was also here, he was borrowing some music from my large collection, but I...

Last week, I discussed some of the policy requirements for retaining research data and I’d like to follow up by discussing how one goes about retaining research data for 10+ years. It’s a sad fact that many of us...

This photo has a Creative Commons Public License which allows me to share, remix and here’s the important part…use for commercial purposes. Not all creative commons photos allow you commercial use. I recently came...

Now that the dust has settled from the biggest ad industry merger announcement ever, let's take a moment to reflect on the net takeaway from the news. First, I should say that the announcement, IMHO, was...

Twitter’s video service, Vine, has been around since early this year, but lately it has been getting more attention than ever. This is due mostly to Facebook’s announcement on June 20 that Instagram now has its own...

Plugins are the new black in WordPress site development, and picking out the perfect plugins for your site can quickly become overwhelming. The WordPress.org plugin repository hosts over 26,000 plugins and the plugin...

We’ve become good at living in a business culture of unbelief. Nothing matters unless it is displayed inside a spreadsheet,  a 30 slide presentation deck, or in a report supported by unassailable market...

Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS) announced that its Objet500 Connex multi-material 3D Printer has been used to produce unique numbered neo-futuristic bibs for the “Yuima Nakazato 2014 Collection” which premiered on...

A summary of my Media Lab Master's thesis, cross-posted from my personal site, because, well, there are a lot more people over here. Unlike my thesis readers, who may or may not have made it through all 244 pages, you...

I recently became aware of a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge on github where the programmer is supposed to create a Tic-Tac-Toe game that let’s the player win every time. You have to code it in Python, although the people...

This seven-piece vegan brush set from Christopher Drummond is one of the 1,000 products available for free on July 30. Image: Courtesy of John Paul Selects On July 30, 1,000 sustainable and eco-friendly products will be...

In my report on CAMconf, I didn’t mention Laci Babai’s talk, whose title was the same as that of this post. This was a talk that needed some thinking about. I want to describe the situation briefly, and then pose a...

Giving a car “the beans” or “some beans” is definitely something all those who are interested in automobiles like to do when confronted with a new car (or that may just be me). Read more »

Last week, I wrote that I was going to begin an application process for those that wanted to be selected as my “student”. I held a poll, and the votes clearly showed that out of the 3 choices, you wanted to see me...

All of a sudden, i noticed a slow mouse cursor movement and browser page load flicker in my macbook pro. I have 16GB RAM and 500 GB Samsung SSD loaded in my Mac and surprised with the problem. So thought to have a look...

I’ve written recently about the difference between solid-state drives (SSDs), PCIe SSDs, and solid-state memory over PCIe. But a new technology was presented to me this month that’s even more radical: What if NAND...

While the new tablet has been selling in the U.S via Amazon and Best Buy for a few days, Google have started taking orders directly from the U.S Play Store too.   But here is the surprise. It looks like we may get it...