15 trillion bits per second and nothing left to download January 28, 2008

Cisco…offered a range of examples to try to capture the significance of the increase in speed. It said the switch could transfer all 90,000 Netflix movies in 38.4 seconds or send a two megapixel digital image to every human being on Earth in 28 minutes.

But I want it now.

» 15,000,000,000,000 bits per second! Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log.

Robots discover lying, and in turn, kill each other January 23, 2008

I think we’re one step closer to a Cylon uprising.  Then again, that might be because I’ve been watching way too much BSG.

Slashdot | Robots Learn To Lie

Frankenstein Heart January 15, 2008

“US scientists have coaxed recycled hearts taken from animal cadavers into beating in the laboratory after reseeding them with live cells…”

I’ll wait to be impressed when they come up with a bionic heart to accompany my bionic limbs.

Hearts beat anew – Dvorak Uncensored

Tadao Ando January 15, 2008

I’ve decided that Tadao Ando is my new favorite architect.

Langen Foundation taken by Santa Cruiser

THURSDAY’S GREGALOGUE: CELEBRITY SICKNESS January 11, 2008

The Daily Gut

Now they’re saying Britney Spears is “bi-polar.” Years ago, she would have just been, “selfish.” And at some point in the (not too distant) future, she will be, “dead.”