Daily Archives: June 22, 2006

InsiderBox 1 Originally uploaded by tommasz. I’ve long suspected this to be true. Tags: Rochester comic Insider

Hydrogen Atom Scale Model – more nothing than anything else. Close to 11 miles of it (at 72 dpi) as a matter of fact. Tags: scale model hydrogen atom

I’ll admit to being a sucker for new approaches to the computer desktop so BumpTop, a 3-D desktop metaphor is certainly interesting. The real question, though, is whether it’s a better idea to model the real world than to come … Read More →

Maybe it’s me, but NASA seems unable to learn from past mistakes. They’re launching a shuttle flight next week even though they’re not really sure that foam won’t come off again and their own safety officer is unwilling to endorse … Read More →

In its fight against the EFF in the AT&T case, the government is essentially saying that secrecy is more important than law. So forget the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Congress or anything else that might say otherwise. Wasn’t this just … Read More →

Classic Texts In Computer Science has online versions of some of the most important books and papers in CompSci. If you’ve taken computer courses you’ve either had these or have seen references to them. Tags: computer science classic texts