Tag Archives: Technology

Zombie Dogs

By alex | Published: 6/30/2005
It seems that scientists in Pittsburg are resurecting dead dogs: US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years. Pittsburgh’s Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject’s veins are drained of blood and filled with an […]
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Please keep prefetching

By alex | Published: 4/4/2005
Liz is the latest to write on the dangers of prefetching. Basically, if you use a prefetch capable browser (like Firefox), it grabs specified links and caches them so that when you click on them the download appears instant. It utilizes the time you spend on each page to speed up the time it takes […]
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New favorite

By alex | Published: 3/17/2005
I now desperately want one of these: the ecomobile, a kevlar coated BMW motorcycle. Even Jamie is almost sold. (I’ve been banned from owning or riding a motocycle since my accident a decade ago.) Unfortunately, I grossly underestimated how much it costs to acquire one of these beauties. Not to put too fine a point […]
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More on paid-blogging

By alex | Published: 1/9/2005
I want to clarify a bit on the paid blogging front, and particularly on Marqui’s approach. Some (not Ms. Lawley) have privately suggested that I was being overly critical of mamamusings by labeling her decisions to take payment from Marqui as a “sell out.” I want to make clear that this was a bit tongue-in-cheek. […]
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