Monthly Archives: June 2006

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

AT&T has been tak­ing heat for allow­ing the NSA to tap into their data net­work with­out a war­rant. So to head off future prob­lems, they have a new pri­vacy pol­icy, effec­tive Fri­day, that allows them to do any­thing they want … Read More →