This is  •  really cool. Bendy screen technology allowing us to roll up and put away our  •  computers. And cheap:  •  “The FOLED technology potentially offers the ability  •  to use roll-to-roll processing, much the same as newspapers are currently  •  printed. This has tremendous implication for …

It reads "GAS THE MODERN FUEL"  •  I noticed this near the foot of Queen Street by Ontario, seen from behind S&R. It is pretty faded but a really nice font. The municipality has run natural gas distribution since the 1800s. This is near the old gas works site. Here is some info on city gas works … read more »

The Guardian Unlimited has a great article on the legacy of Arab culture on the western world - little things like writing and science. It was written in response to a UK scandal involving a TV presenter who stated that we owe Arabs nothing.

For some time, Rob1 and I have been yapping about developing wind power on PEI. PEI is both fortunate and unfortunate in God's selection of blessings, lacking for example the natural resources such as a forested hinterland and mining resources that other parts of Canada take for granted. As the …

It is good to hear that the US is heading back into space, aiming for Man on Mars just in time for me to retire so I can follow the whole thing from my jelly sofa listening in on my wireless brain implant.  Whatever it is, however, it is not quite "news" as this was the plan in '89  and even back …

There are things you need and things you think you need and things you know you don't need and then once in a while there is something hanging right there on the cusp like a CD of incidental music to the 1960's UK marionette sci-fi show Thunderbirds. Dandy tribute site here. I am more of a Captain …

Yesterday was very biometric:  •  The date for my seminar with the Surveillance Project at Queens was reset for later this month. I am going to talk about my thesis on the constitutionality of automated biometric surveillance and the recent cases on the liberty right in section 7 of The Charter of …

I am not the first to embrace new technologies. I read how people think these web sites will revolutionize politics, society, education, the economy and I think of lonely people isolated from each other who would be better off joiing an industrial softball league. I read about new car gadgets and … read more »

Steve gave me a heads up by instant message and I spent two hours at the end of yesterday listening to the landing on Mars live from NASA. I tagged Mel, too. Here is the site for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Get some Tang and food in tubes and follow along.  •  The photo right is the rear … read more »