We were really excited that the Edison Museum in West Orange re-opened late last year after a five-year hiatus.
Saturday we paid a visit.
Category: Tech Stuff
Anything interesting that’s computer-related. New web sites, programming tricks…
Unfortunate headlines appear all the time. This one seems especially bad, considering the error itself as well as the source. It’s from the pdf of The New York Times Digest that came out this morning.
We were talking last night about Energy Star ratings, and how unreliable they are. For example, TVs that are tested and rated when their screens are dimmed so much you can’t see them. Or laptop batteries rated with performance and screen brightness turned down and no one doing anything on them. Or refrigerators that have…
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Some-time commenter Andy did some of this on the Literary Cafe blog, and I thought it looked way cool. Before-and-after after the jump.
4 CommentsWell that may be overstating things a bit, but now that I’ve got your attention take a look at the Calais Viewer. Paste some text into the entry field and submit it, and it parses it for the specific meaning using natural language processing. My friend Eric Hoffer was a guest speaker at the Web…
1 CommentIf you’re of a “certain age” and you’re a music lover, you’ve got a stack of vinyl records laying around somewhere and no way to play them in your car. I’d been mulling this over for a while, with most of the pieces of the puzzle laying around here, and finally figured out a “duh”…
4 CommentsA friend just donated a stack of really interesting LPs (thanks Annie!). As I work through them (right now I’m listening to “The Late Fourteenth Century Avant Garde” — I love medieval music) I notice that I have to get up every 20-30 minutes to change sides. Isn’t that what all the ergonomic experts recommend?…
1 CommentHere’s a photo of the sun, taken by the Super-Kamiokande observatory in Japan. A very unusual photo, not by natural light, infrared or ultraviolet. By neutrino emissions. What’s more, it was taken at night. How do you take a photo of the sun at night? Through the Earth…
