Things added in August, 2004
Iomega REV 35GB/90GB External Drive
The first thing you need to know about the Iomega REV 35GB/90GB drive is that its name is a lie. The REV is an external hard drive with removable 35GB hard-disk cartridges, ...
Olympus DS-660 Digital Voice Recorder
If you put your ear up close to the speaker grille on the Olympus DS-660 Digital Voice Recorder, you can hear the faint, distant screams of agonized microcassette manufacturers. For years, portable ...
Science vs. witchcraft.
This BusinessWeek interview with Linus Torvalds contains a very interesting point: Torvalds compares the open-source way of developing software to the scientific method. Programmers put ideas forward; they're critiqued publicly; and, ...
Oedipus Rex, 2004.
"Oedipus, as you know, was the tragic king who killed his father, then married his mother -- a sequence of events that seldom turns out well." -Bob Costas, commenting on the 2004 ...
How to poop like an astronaut.
NASA Technology Transfer Bulletin #A101-753B explains it all for you.
Here come the meteors!
I just had a short article about the upcoming Perseid meteor shower published in the San Francisco Chronicle. This was a fun piece to do--I got to talk with NASA scientists, ...
Perseid meteor shower to light up the skies
This week, skip the movies and catch some shooting stars instead.The annual Perseid meteor shower will be especially spectacular this year, and at its peak on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, you ...
Put the hours in.
Good advice on how to be creative:"If I was just starting out writing, say, a novel or a screenplay, or maybe starting up a new software company, I wouldn't try to ...