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I just upgraded my laptop to a MacBook, and thus, the global headquarters of Bruno and the Prof has received a giant infrastructure upgrade.
In the process of downloading all the new drivers, I came across this questionnaire on the site:

The first and fourth questions sound particularly intriguing. The idea of collaborating online [...]

You know what’s funny? Robots falling down stairs.

Looking at Honda’s new FCX fuel cell concept car I’m reminded that over the last hundred years or so, much progress has been made to design cars around the peculiarities of the internal combustion engine. With the advent of ethanol, hybrid, plug-in hybrid,
battery-powered, and fuel cell technologies, the design of the automobile as we [...]

After international officials outlawed the export of wild caviar from the Caspian and Black Seas, the market has turned to farmed fish, and I have to say, the whole business comes off as slightly perverse*:
In the mid-1990’s the farmed caviar industry was nothing more than a few marine biologists with a dream. Today it is [...]

As some of you know, in my double-super-secret life, I’m a mild mannered technology director, buying and installing and troubleshooting Apple computers all over Seattle. So I’m going to take this Saturday (and hopefully some Saturdays to come…) to outline various thoughts on the tech industry. If this doesn’t appeal to you at all, feel free to skip these posts.

Two weeks ago, Apple Computer did something very unusual and talked about a prototype product, the iTV, which won’t be available for some 6 months. The iTV takes all the movies, music, and photos you have stored on your computer, and streams them to your TV. It’s a hot little gadget, and one that dovetails nicely with the fact that Apple now sells TV shows and movies from their iTunes store. But there’s one feature that they haven’t announced, one that would fit perfectly in the living room.

Apropos of our previous post, who is this “Mr. T” and since when did he become so popular?

Google continues to dominate the way information is archived and disseminated. Today it announced that it will archive historical newspaper content:
Google plans to announce on Wednesday that it is offering a service that will permit Internet users to search through the archives of newspapers, magazines and other publications and uncover material that in some cases [...]

Even in an article titled “Laptop Slides Into Bed in Love Triangle,” this seems rather like a stretch:
Most couples experts said the act of taking an electronic device to bed did not by itself threaten a marriage. “It depends on the relationship,” said Marcy Levine, a marriage and family therapist in San Francisco. “If the [...]

A new software project called the GPU wants to make it easy to do distributed computing (you know, the thing where your screen saver searches for aliens or folds genomes). But the creators want to modify the license so that the military can’t use it:
A “patch” apended to the top of the license says [...]

Fascinating to see the techies at Engadget get all weepy over the demise of New Jersey’s Bell Labs.
Bell Labs was the host of an amazing array of scientific output in the latter half of the 20th century. But after Ma Bell (AT&T) spun off Lucent Technologies, the R&D department shrunk and shrunk. [...]