I vividly remember the first time I lied. I was 4 years old. Very soon after, I deceived for the fist time. Two days after my first deception, my mother suspected the first deceit and tested me on it. She tested me in a deceitful way; asking the question in a way as not to raise suspicion. […]
Congratulations to Seattle for winning the Federal DOT Grant for Remote Infrared Audio Signage! This means that various real-world places around Seattle are going to be annotated with identifiers which can be directionally detected.
This should be interesting to Virtual Earth people, Wikimapia, and anyone interested in tacking metadata to real-world locations.
Talking signs address some scenarios […]
So, as I predicted when I booted all of my subscribers and converted this blog without copying old posts, my Google PageRank has plummeted (to 3). I have actually brought back most of the old posts, but the URL format is a bit different (although the file at http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/2002/12/22.html exists on the filesystem, WordPress returns a […]
Aaron Clauset has a rambling post attempting to contrast science favorably with non-science. The key defining difference is easy to sum up; science seeks to disconfirm. The rest of his post talks about things that are shared by science and non-science alike.
He does quote a useful little statement, which can be applied to the “Metcalfe’s […]
Every now and then on this blog, I poke fun at oversensitive “scientists” who are so wrapped up in the theology of science that they would greet Francis Bacon with Cartman-esqe screams of “RESPECT maaah authori-TAY!!!“
So I just love that “Nature’s Fundamental Laws May be Changing“. To me, it is common sense. Francis Bacon would […]