I just had a brief but fruitful (well, for me) email exchange with Aubrey de Grey, the longevity researcher. I may later write a long piece about his field; check out his main page. He came to biology from a computer science background, interestingly.
Google Base. If this is what everyone thinks it is, and it […]
Category Archives: research
Wow is that picture big
October 25, 2005 – 11:41 am
So is anyone
August 4, 2005 – 3:13 pm
a member of A Small World? I don’t want to join, but I am curious about the phenomenon.
Aquanerd
May 9, 2004 – 11:38 pm
So I’m heavy into the Coelacanth (”see-la-kanth”). Tastes sort of like monkfish.
I’m still working, but
November 21, 2003 – 6:35 am
I’m sort of obsessed with the idea of Club Med - so weird. From all accounts, each site is the same. The collective functions as a worldwide autonomous pleasure processing zone. Anyway, Jonathan Ames went and kept a diary, which Details declined to publish.
USA, baby
November 14, 2003 – 6:42 am
Here’s a letter of recommendation from George Washington on behalf of Elnathan Haskell. I love the wax seal and the centering of words on the page.
What is captology?
June 4, 2003 – 2:38 am
Captology is the study of computers as persuasive technologies. This includes the design, research, and analysis of interactive computing products created for the purpose of changing people’s attitudes or behaviors.
Buildings
April 25, 2003 – 8:29 am
The Architectural Record is an amazing resource for an architecture junkie like me. They have plans, tell design stories, list construction costs, builders, and sometimes QTVR panoramas. I’m in love!
Gross!
April 1, 2003 – 11:46 am
William Gibson has a funny observation about the bandwidth of ejaculation. There might be a corollary about the storage capicity of tissues.
Retail
March 9, 2003 – 9:35 am
Wal-Mart is like a country within a country. But it’s friendly to the host nation:
“By systematically wresting “pricing power” from the manufacturer and handing it to the consumer, Wal-Mart has begun to generate an economy-wide Wal-Mart Effect. Economists now credit the company’s Everyday Low Prices with contributing to Everyday Low Inflation, meaning that all Americans–even […]
The Bachelorette
January 23, 2003 – 11:25 am
So I watched some of this show last night. It’s captivating, surprisingly chaste (compared to Blind Date and its ilk) louche capitalist fantasy. I love it. I think my favorite part is the reactions of the men - which are mostly in the vein of “I hope she likes me” or “I hope I didn’t […]