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Jessica Wants an MRI

Posted by Void on 04/01/2006

This is an expansion on a comment I left on The Zucchini Patch. I think they use PET scans for what you want to do. An MRI isn’t capable of telling the difference between a live brain and a dead brain. It can, however, spot a shrunken hippocampus or amygdala or anomalies in the blood […]

Intro to the Blogosphere

Posted by Void on 03/12/2006

Bloggers have been described with syllogisms such as
blogger : journalist :: tick : sheep
and
bloggers : journalists :: dung beetles : elephants

TikiWiki under Windows

Posted by Void on 03/04/2006

I recently decided to migrate the main web page to a Wiki. I’ve messed around with a couple of CMSs – Mambo and subDreamer – and decided that the format and size of the site really don’t require that kind of power. A quick look at the features of some popular wiki software led me […]

Share your Information on the Web

Posted by Void on 02/16/2006

In a previous article I was babbling about subscribing to RSS feeds in order to reduce information overload. But let’s look at it from the other side now. Webmasters use RSS feeds to keep customers up-to-date. Customers use a feed reader to grab the raw XML from their favorite sites, and the feed reader formats […]

Natural Terror

Posted by Void on 01/14/2006

Natural Terror | The Zucchini Patch Update 9/22/2007: Jessica retooled her blog over the summer. Do be sure to check it out. Here’s the new link to the post above. Natural Terror | The Zucchini Patch A quick search for the toothmark photo below turned up a couple of interesting blog entries using the same […]

New Google Feature: 403 Forbidden

Posted by Void on 01/09/2006

Google flagged me on the 11th page of results for doing an exhaustive search. If I’m a virus, why do they want to see me again? I hope this isn’t a ploy to force users to download their branded apps. Google  Error   We’re sorry… … but we can’t process your request right now. A […]

Linear vs. Global

Posted by Void on 12/08/2005

Manipulate the grey areas so that they seem to support your point of view.

Read the Feed

Posted by Void on 11/18/2005

Tell me this isn’t way easier than watching fifteen minutes of house fires and muggings just to find out whether the rest of the world still exists.

And the Wisdom to Know the Difference…

Posted by Void on 11/16/2005

Wisdom comes from choosing which information is useful for the task at hand, whether that task is cooking dinner or writing an essay on the funerary practices of the Fore tribe in New Guinea. Or both.

Where are the Comments?

Posted by Void on 10/17/2005

In case you wonder where your comment went, well, my bad. I blew out the MySQL database last weekend. I was able to reconstruct my posts from cached versions on Google, and in some cases I was able to set the date to the same as the original. But I ran out of steam before […]

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