There are only a few magazines I read so thoroughly that I run out of articles before the replacement shows up on the newsstand, but Newsweek is one of them. The last page alternately written by Anna Quindlen and George Will is a favorite. While Ms. Quindlen is a superior writer (I’d kill for that [...]
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My Dream PC is no more
I’ve been permanently attached to my trusty tablet PC over the last few months, and have grown a bit impatient with its sluggishness. It’s three years old, and I was interested in obtaining something more powerful. Here are my requirements:
WACOM pen compatible
More than 3 gigs of memory
DVD reader/writer
64-bit OS capable
At least 2.2 GHz
Less than $1500
I [...]
Stoichiometric Machines of the Future
A few weeks ago, I finally got around to watching “The Inconvenient Truth.” The next day the Wired magazine showed up with a special on cutting carbon. How could we have been stupid for so long? Well, the following equation is just so damn easy on this planet:
_CnHm + _O2 = _CO2 + _H2O + [...]
Merging Energies
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about hybridding. A hybrid, in the modem context, is something that will combine multiple energy sources to perform a single function. Two things about this are difficult. First, the device must be fairly intelligent to manage the 2 sources. Simply, plug it in and close the switch will no [...]
A Definitive and Graphical Guide to Human Energy/Power
I’ve been talking on and off about how we don’t use our own human energy anymore – everything is electric or hydrocarbon powered. In the spirit of hybridding, it’d be nice to harness human power where appropriate. There are better studies of this topic than what I’m about to write, but this one is compact [...]