Oh Helmut Smits, you funny, funny man.

Smits figures that an 82 cm x 82 cm square would be the same as one pixel when looking down 1km up. So he burned a square in the exact dimensions in order to make a dead pixel in Google Earth. It’s too bad you cannot see it until [...]

As you may know, every year I make an interactive holiday card for everyone. This year it had to be late. In December, I was kicking around an idea that would incorporate some of the new A.I that I have been playing with. While at work, I shared the idea and my coworkers loved it. [...]

Last weekend I was watching Iron Man when a brilliant idea hit me. Tony Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr., is a technological genius. What impressed me was his artificial intelligent butler named Jarvis. I got goosebumps while watching Stark interact with him. Stark would give commands and converse with him. Jarvis would complete the [...]

LifeHacker has an interesting post full of books that have changed peoples lives. Readers of the blog nominated books and LifeHacker tallied the votes. No surprise that The Bible is number one, of coarse more praise then it should receive. Interestingly, at a very close second was the works of Ayn Rand’s. As an Ayn Rand follower, its good to see others are reading her but I always find it interesting that everyone has read her books though rarely anyone practices her philosophy. Other books include The Stranger by Camus, works by George Orwell, and two books by the biologist and quite possibly the smartest scientist since Darwin, Richard Dawkins. His books The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion both made the list and I would agree that they are excellent reads.

Finally. I was afraid that I was the only one. Nicholas Carr wrote an interesting piece in the Atlantic Monthly, stating that his ever increasing dependance of the quick speedy information highway is making him stupid. Mainly it is chipping away at his capacity for concentration and contemplation and that it may have an affect on our future society.