One small step for a robot, one giant leap for…
From Marc Andreessen’s blog: robot self-reassembly:
From Marc Andreessen’s blog: robot self-reassembly:
One of my favourite bloggers, Greta Christina, attended a church service at which a friend of hers was being installed as a minister, and wrote… Read More »An atheist goes to church
And now here is Ben Stein, sneering and scoffing at Darwin, a man who spent decades observing and pondering the natural world — that world… Read More »Derb on "Expelled" and the odious Ben Stein
According to the NW Asthma: News & Resources site, the current pollen count here in Seattle is really low (although it spiked up to “high” last Wednesday).… Read More »Hay fever?!
This is a test post to check out the QuickPost WordPress Plugin which I’ve just installed.
There’s a fascinating piece in the latest New Yorker by James Surowiecki on the difference between rules-based and principle-based regulation: It’s something like the difference… Read More »Rules vs. Principles
As I was returning home this evening, I got off the bus and saw that everyone was gazing up into the sky. This is what… Read More »Smoke ring over Seattle
My blogging rate has dropped way off in the last few weeks, and I was wondering why. First, I’ve been pretty busy: not just with… Read More »Blaming one's tools
I don’t get to vote in the forthcoming elections, but I can’t avoid the zeitgeist. And I agree strongly with Robert Reich, who just endorsed… Read More »Rejecting cynicism