A fewyears ago, some casual comments from Miguel started me thinking that video-on-demand at home might be realistic. I’m now pushing 2TB of wireless on-demand media at home, and nothing could be easier. My Comcast wireprovides on-demand to a comparable catalog. I fully expect Netflix to be supporting on-demand any day now.
This just illustrates how […]
Shel quotes Gladwell, “Ideas … spread like viruses do”. Gladwell’s “Tipping Point” introduced many people to the basic ideas of memetics. Many people readingthat Gladwell line may have recognized a reference to ex-Softie Richard Brodie’s “Virus of the Mind”, which itself is really an attempt to popularize Dawkins.
In a 1983 column in Scientific American, reprinted […]
Well, the very first results from my DNA spelunking have arrived. So far I have received only Y-chromosome 12-marker test; much more detailed tests will be available over the next weeks. I was not surprised to confirm that I am haplotype R1b. One interestingfinding was in the ethnic origin of currently living people who are […]