Is it game night yet?
It’s Thursday night. Just one more day to plow through until you reach Friday night with all its movies and drinks. Well, we can’t tell you how to speed up time but we can tell you how to feel like it’s going faster. Play computer games. Now, we are talking about Genspace, and we do … Read more
Jaron Lanier and the Fall of Opensource
Jaron Lanier, one of the pioneers of opensource movement and virtual reality, thinks the opensource movement had been a total failure. He does point out the opensource movement and the web culture are two different things and agrees the latter had been a phenomenal success in demonstrating the capacity of the unknown, average individuals out … Read more
8bit tools of science
According to the founder of Playpower.org, more people in India have TVs at home than tap water. And there are $12 computers everywhere that uses the TVs as monitors, like so many of the personal computers of old. Now consider that these hardwares based off older 8bit chip designs and the softwares that run on … Read more
Alan Kay applied to synthetic biology, and other stuff.
This is something I wrote up a few days ago, probably around four or so in the morning. So take whatever it says with caution. I know I should be writing about some other things as well, like how the diybio nyc might be amazingly close to getting a real lab space, or how I’m … Read more
How to change the world.
This is a bit of rant post on something I thought of after watching bunch of old hacker-themed movies from the Hollywood. It continues to amaze me how I can participate in all sorts of crazy things even with the summer studies and jobs I need to keep up with. I guess that’s the benefit … Read more
The antikythera mechanism
An ex-senior curator finally succeeded in replicating all known features of the 2000 years old Antikythera mechanism, the first known mechanical computer in human history. Technically this is in similar spirit as a 19th century clock. There is some strange notion among some people regarding how people got smarter over time. Sometimes I feel … Read more
Life: Deciding on a laptop
As I’ve continuously whined about past few months in various places around the net, I need to buy a new laptop. Yes. I haven’t bought the darn thing yet. I’ve been doing all my computing on school desktop (by remote connection) and the Asus EEEpc 701 ‘netbook’, which comes equipped with Xandros linux (buggy as … Read more
Science in Apple?
Like most people, I was tuned into the WWDC keynote address on Monday. Most of the stuff on the keynote were more or less expected, including the iPhone/Dev kit and the OS X 10.6. However, the way they were presented were intriguing to say the least… To this scientist-in-training at least. First the iPhone. Inclusion … Read more
Hacker attitude
The ‘hacker’ culture had been around for so long, and involved in so much of the substantial progress of the last half of the decade, to have their own ethos and philosophy into codified laws, somewhat like the ten commandments. Except that these rules are, as pertaining to the hacker subculture itself, a matter of … Read more
From virtual to real
I must admit, there was a time when I would play computer/video games late into the night. I was a wee-lad back then, so impressionable and curious about the whole plethora of things of this universe. And the allure of the virtual worlds to such mind was just too sweet to resist. I gave a … Read more
