April 2005

Saturday 30 April

  • Needies (22:46) - Needies are interactive plush dolls inspired by codependent, high-maintenance relationships. Totally attention-starved, they compete with each other for human affection -- or, getting touch, as they like to say. When you give Needies touch (by hugging and squeezing them),... | 2 Comments

Thursday 28 April

  • Bra-breast cancer update (21:30) - I've skimmed the bra-breast cancer book and found that the study used both questionable data collection method and data analysis. For example, during the interviews, the interviewer was not blind to the interviewee's cancer history. What I find even... | 0 Comments
  • L337! Pwned! ROFLcopter... (16:03) - Domo-kun goatse and even John Titor! Bigger wang?... | 3 Comments

Wednesday 27 April

  • The 1337357 Hacker (11:19) - that is "leetest" for those that dont speak 1337. ... | 0 Comments

Monday 25 April

  • On Fibonacci Haskell (22:40) - In response to Dan Weber blog entry about Fibonacci in Haskell, I thought I should provide this link about The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer which covers in depth the proper implementation of Fibonacci in Haskell ;) ... | 0 Comments

Friday 22 April

  • The Office Party (19:50) - So your boss throws a party after work. He buys some decent champagne and booze galore. It's a pretty nice gesture, and of course you drink too much. Everything is going great until you shove your foot into your big... | 3 Comments
  • MIT automatic paper generator exposes "non-profit" conference (16:18) - Folks at MIT have put together an automatic paper generation engine to create bogus papers and see if they get accepted by conferences. The papers make for some pretty funny if completely nonsencial reading. The latest publication of myself and... | 0 Comments

Thursday 21 April

  • "CHiPs" Online (19:28) - According to the site, they are celebrating their 10th anniversary. Someone really loves their CHiPs. They have a section on the site with photos from different episodes where people submit their own caption. Ooooh, and don't forget the CHiPs word... | 1 Comments

Wednesday 20 April

  • Wicket is Creepy. (23:12) - Just in time for the new Star Wars premier, here's a dumb site that made me laugh. Wicket is Creepy A friend of mine also showed me this stupid but quite funny mock Star Wars trailer. A Lost Hope ... | 1 Comments

Tuesday 19 April

  • Pope Benedict XVI (15:11) - VATICAN CITY, April 19 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope today, taking the name Benedict XVI, then telling a wildly cheering crowd from a balcony on St. Peter's Basilica, "I entrust myself to your prayers." ... He has been... | 19 Comments

Monday 18 April

  • Adobe to Buy Macromedia in $3.4B Deal (10:22) - SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Combining two of the largest makers of software for creating and delivering digital content, Adobe Systems Inc. said Monday it will acquire Macromedia Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion.... | 0 Comments

Sunday 17 April


Saturday 16 April

  • Clocky (13:53) - Clocky is a clock for people who have trouble getting out of bed. When the snooze bar is pressed, Clocky rolls off the table and finds a hiding spot, a new one every day. ... | 2 Comments

Thursday 14 April

  • Where's the outrage, America? (13:07) - Prisoners are being killed by officials without proper medical knowledge and researchers are finding that the dead inmates bodies have less anaesthetics than they probably need to not be conscious during their execution and thus suffer suffocation and excruciating pain.... | 6 Comments

Wednesday 13 April

  • Just the day we needed... (16:48) - A day for hating gays!... | 2 Comments
  • The Enlightenment (12:55) - So, there are some mysteries in life that we may never know the answers to. Is time continuous or discrete? Is the universe infinite? Are those two the same question? People spend their lives searching for answers to the questions... | 5 Comments

Tuesday 12 April

  • Partition and Solve (00:40) - The idea of breaking programs into functions was taught to some of us with the metaphor of "divide and conquer." That is, make several smaller problems and solve those instead. This approach is now so deeply ingrained that I... | 1 Comments

Sunday 10 April


Thursday 7 April

  • Sony Patents Matrix-Like Game Technology (10:08) - Reuters is reporting that Sony has been granted 2 patents, both describing 'Method and system for generating sensory data onto the human neural cortex'. These are patents 6,729,337 and 6,536,440. The patents go on to 'describe a technique for... | 3 Comments

Wednesday 6 April

  • Ohio Rolls (20:50) - Sticky rice (cooked sushi rice with rice vinegar folded in)NoriBeets cut into "matchsticks"Carrots cut into "matchsticks"WasabiWater with a little bit of rice vinegarPut a thin strip of wasabi down the middle of the nori. Wet your fingers with the... | 0 Comments
  • What is even being sold to me...? (20:46) - I've been getting spam recently that makes absolutely no sense. Could someone decipher what is being sold to me here... From: Semicircular M. Waiver To: Ryan Date: Apr 6, 2005 8:33 PM Subject: Elloelloello :) Hi there! doodler Cayacaman ... | 6 Comments
  • Acid rain in Columbia River Gorge (11:47) - Since enviromental topics seem to be hot today... I thought Oregon was a nice clean place. Apparently polution from Portland (the Portland General Electric coal burning power plant in particular) drifts over to the gorge creating acid rain and fog... | 4 Comments
  • NY’s Solar-Powered, Litter-Compacting Trash Can (10:37) - Up to 300 gallons of waste--or four-to-ten times the amount held by the average bin--can be housed in the BigBelly at a time. As a result, up to 75% less collection trips are needed by sanitation workers and their heavily... | 1 Comments

Tuesday 5 April

  • $105 a barrel oil (21:34) - Goldman Sachs says oil could spike to $105/b Is it time to revisit peak oil? In short, we're running out of energy rapidly and like it or not we're going to have to revert our worst mistake ever, vast suburban... | 3 Comments
  • The OK Corral (17:48) - TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - People in Florida will be allowed to kill in self-defense on the street without trying to flee under a new law passed by state politicians on Tuesday that critics say will bring a Wild West... | 1 Comments

Monday 4 April

  • $100 Laptops (11:59) - Details are still being worked out, but here's the MIT team's current recipe: Put the laptop on a software diet; use the freely distributed Linux operating system; design a battery capable of being recharged with a hand crank; and use... | 17 Comments
  • Whew, we're making progress (11:13) - On Tuesday, five unidentified US soldiers working in Colombia as part of a US anti-narcotics force were arrested as they allegedly attempted to ship 16 kilograms of cocaine into the United States. ... The arrests come as analysts claim the... | 2 Comments
  • Hello Disjointed! (11:03) - Hello to the disjointed readers who are now picking up my blog. I'm not sure what it'll look like on the main page, so I'll take this opportunity to point out that my blog is actually hosted here, and... | 3 Comments

Saturday 2 April

  • Pope on a Mission (02:37) - I've never been a church going guy, but I've always been spiritual. I'm a wierdo in that way. I also never thought I would be emotional in the final days of the Pontiff, but I've found myself getting misty over... | 3 Comments

Friday 1 April

  • The Holy Father (15:00) - If you have an extra minute, regardless of your religious background, I urge everyone to say a quick prayer for the peaceful passing of Pope John Paul II.... | 3 Comments
  • George Hotelling goes Gopher (11:20) - Haha, this is brings back so many fond memories the old days.... | 0 Comments