J. C. R. Licklider as the Antichrist
David Byrne had a post on his blog the other day in which he laments the fact that so many of the physical objects which we have valued for decades or centuries will disappear...
Author: Mike Garrity
The Public Option in 2D
We had a meeting at work yesterday about naming some classes. We’ve had the same meeting over and over for months (years?) now. Again and again, we’ll get everyone to agree on a naming...
Using SPDE with IntelliJ
This is mostly a note to myself, but I figured out how to get SPDE to work in IntelliJ IDEA. SPDE is a port of Processing to the Scala programming language written by Nathan...
The Reign of King Edward III
Finding a lost play by Shakespeare is the stuff of legend, but Brian Vickers is claiming he did it. Well, there have been suggestions that the play in question was Shakespeare’s since about 1760,...
Skiing Robot
Now that we’ve had snow (twice already), it’s time to get some inspiration for winter time projects. If you want to think big, check out this one from the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia....
Neuronovels
Marco Roth has an interesting article about the Neuronovel in n+1. Neuronovel is his term for a notable trend in fiction over the last decade or so. I’m sure you’ve noticed that in a...
