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
Ebook future
I just came across an article in the Wired(link) stating that Amazon will almost certainly unveil a new ebook reader with larger screen size. While the article goes on to talk about possible tablet device from Apple as being a heavy competiton on the ebook market compared to the text-centric ebook devices, my attention span … Read more
DIYbio NYC meeting: Apr. 15th
Okay, here we are, the fourth meeting of the diybio nyc group. As you can see the meeting was on the April 15th, almost a week ago, so I’m a little late in writing this post. The week had been a little crazy (I’ve been saying this a lot lately), so I really didn’t have … Read more
cheap microfluidics
Just a quick note before I go off to fire up a new report. (Cross posted from my tumblr feed) Original article from the Wired. Ok, here’s my take on it. There seem to be a way to build a cheap microfluidic array using household materials costing around three cents. The materials involved are standard … Read more
Science commons
Just a quick post before going to sleep (it’s 2:45 in the morning and I have class at 10:00 ugh). This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen on the net today. 120 second introduction to what science commons is. I can think of lot of things that can explain why the idea of … Read more
