A Plan:

Integrate Twitter updates and Facebook shares with this site.  The question is ‘why?’  Is it better just to have everything on facebook?  I know it’s certainly become easier to update there - I probably share 3-4 articles a week at least.  Need to think about this.
Add links to DC resources

DCist
Brightest Young Things
HACDC

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT) can make you dance. They use a technology called “galvanic vestibular stimulation” which sends low-power electric currents into the subject’s inner ear, giving them their irresistable urge to move in a specific, controllable direction. Using a joystick, NTT has made individuals walk in a pretzel shape.
NTT has also […]

According to Wonkette, a Gregory S. Paul, from Baltimore, MD, has published an article in the electronic Journal of Religion and Society studying the effects of religious beliefs on a society. As written up in the London Times under the title “Societies worse off ‘when they have God on their side’, Mr. Paul believes […]

Casey, Aly, and anyone else who got into our post-barbeque, post-beer, wide-ranging debate, I found a really interesting interview of Rene Girard which covers many of the topics we discussed.
Rene Girard is a prominent Roman Catholic conservative and emeritus professor of anthropology at Stanford University. The interview was conducted by Global Viewpoint editor Nathan […]

While getting ready for bed tonight, I was reminded how much I hate it when mouthwash bottles get all sticky on the sides and bottoms. And they always do. Even if you rinse the cup/lid every single time, you’ll still end up with a ring of sticky, congealed mouthwash gluing the mouthwash bottle to […]

Some of my clearest insights come while I am showering or preparing for bed. Tonight, while washing my face, I realized that although I am skilled at quickly grasping the idea of piece of writing or the intent and theme of a movie or the position taken by a debator, I am not […]

During the ORCHID research meeting with Dr. Peter Bajcsy, he discussed how to coordinate large arrays of small sensors. How do we avoid bottlenecks, increase range, increase fault tolerance, and update programs in a distributed way? These problems are similar to those in the multi-agent systems domain. It would be interesting to run simulations of […]