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In 150,000 or 200,000 years what is someone going to think, coming across a nuclear waste dump?  “What the fuck is this?”  What thoughts will go through their mind, being aware that, 150,000 or 200,000 years prior, a few generations of Homo sapiens decided to leave this toxic shit around for the next hundreds of…

News today about exciting research where scientists have been able to get algae to create complex proteins similar to those created by the malaria parasites in the Plasmodium genus. Excerpt: The use of algae to produce malaria proteins that elicited antibodies against Plasmodium falciparum in laboratory mice and prevented malaria transmission was published May 16…

There is a feature of Google Maps, which is not enabled by default, called Distance Measurement Tool.  First it has to be enabled as per these instructions.  Then one clicks on points on the map to create the route for calculating the distance.  Here’s a useful video showing how it works: I don’t know how…

I think I’ve made a couple posts here in the past about how the realm of microorganisms in the body, in particular things like intenstinal flora, are like this other, undiscovered realm which may be far more powerful that we know or think. I think I wrote about how someone making a sloppy kiss can…

IMSLP Petrucci Music Library is a comprehensive online source of music scores.  I just got violin parts for a Bach cantata and a mass.  Full scores are available as well as separate parts for individual instruments.  I also saw a copy of Bach’s handwritten manuscript for a violin part to a mass.  This was a…

This hack is so cool I lost sleep because of it.  Warning, do not do this hack late in the evening. Basically I wanted to be able to watch Korean tv on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 yet for some reason the app I needed to watch this one channel is not available in the…

To put it succinctly, the e-mail standard needs to be extended to incorporate other aspects of personal data management.  End of story. But I will elaborate a little bit.  But I will not get too much into the reasons why this has to happen and why this solution is the one that needs to happen…

Things are seriously headed in the wrong direction in terms of Personal Information Logos.  I use the term “logos” to denote data information, retreival, archival, interchange, communication, formats, indexing, and more.  These are all common personal information activities/interactions/comportments which people now engage in as regular matters of course. Big tech companies are bribing our government…

Recently started studying music theory at a community college.  As a classically-trained musician the class fills in so many pieces.  For years I would play classical pieces and sort of feel what was going on.  Based on intuition, common sense, and deduction I sort of knew what was happening behind the scenes, or at least…

Mozilla Lightning is a calendar plugin for Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client.  With Lightning it is easy to add network-based calendars very easily.  this calendar has important astronomical dates and is very useful: http://cantonbecker.com/astronomy-calendar/ I’ve seen other calendars for astronomical dates however they had problems.  One main problem is that they don’t have the exact times…