Tuesday, December 28, 2004

new technologies



Followed this link about new from Sony. They, among other companies, are working on cell microprocessors which will complete with Intel and AMD.

Lead to a story in R&D Magazine about the hot new technologies of 2005.

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

more blogdex

Graphic calculator story about an Apple skunkworks project that went good:



Grumpy gamer

beastles

trackback to the original post. A Beastie Boys message board, remix section.

rothko day 3















mashups part 2



Sounds of science

Tracking back the links...



  1. jason buckley

  2. empty-handed



  3. dr menlo

  4. orbitalworks

  5. Weird, boing boing is listed as a trackback, but I can't find the link on the site. Was it removed? Google's cache of boing boing starts at the 20th, so no luck there.

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  8. metafilter got it



mashups

Ok, I didn't care much for Dangermouse's Jay-Z mix, but I like this one...

[There used to be a link to the Beastles mix here, but it is gone now]

Which lead to some reading about the mashup on the Fleetwood Mash band. And the history of the mashup.

More mashup links here.

All of this courtesy of blogdex.

Tuesday, December 21, 2004

more on the singularity

Google search

Quick definition

Wikipedia

Singularity Watch online magazine

Singularity blog

Vernor Vinge's 1993 paper

Staring into the singularity write-up

scalar systems and tesla

Tesla's name comes up a lot, but then that leads to alien technology, which is a black hole of unsupported claims.

Scalar Systems

links

Survive 2012

Survive 2012 News

Survive 2012 blogspot

pole shift


Cataclysm

the singularity

Patrick Salsbury has a theory.



"Some mathematicians plotted the asymptotic graphs of all of humanity's technological developments and projected them out to the point where they all, relatively simultaneously, hit infinity. The day that they arrived at is December 21st, 2012."

"...if we take a look at some of the really species-changing events in our history, we see 3 really MAJOR developments that changed the entire course of human history. 1) The Agricultural Revolution. 2) The Industrial Revolution. 3) The Information Revolution."

"30,000 years ago, we learned how to farm. 350 years ago, we learned how to mass-produce machines. About 50 years ago, we learned how to build computers. As you can see, the _rate_ of change is increasing, as is the ability afforded by the change."

"According to the mathematical model, we should see approximately *61* more of these species-changing developments before 12/21/2012! All of the same magnitude as the three noted above! Again, it's only a model, but they predict 18 of those changes on the last day, and 13 of _those_ to happen in the last FRACTION OF A SECOND, as things accelerate towards that infinity point."

preparing for the future

In the winter solstice of 2012, 8 years from now, something will happen that will change the course of history. We will enter into a new long count, according to the Mayan calendar, which was synchronized with the Galactic Alignment that will occur in this date. This blog is a collection of links and notes as to what that change may be.

Potter

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Monday, December 20, 2004

networks


Blogs are networks. This is the key:


"The real-time visual processing performed by insects, as described by Tom Daniel in his PopTech lecture this fall, is just one example of how efficiently biological systems can crunch data."

From The network is the blog

useful links


Bugmenot


Provides a password for logging onto news sites that require a password to read them, like the New York Times or LA Times.


Blogdex


Reposts links from a bunch of blogs, sorted by popularity. A good way to get a list of what people are interested in during the day.