Archive for August, 2009

Don’t ever Voigt-Kampff me

It’s bad when your niece IMs you to remind you of your own sister’s birthday.
Especially when the niece in question is just past tweening* and is therefore old enough to bait you with circular discussions (giving you ample opportunity to redeem yourself) before giving up and just telling you what you’ve clearly forgotten.

Biosynthetic programming tools and technologies

Wow – what an amazing roundup… if you haven’t checked out Melanie Swan’s recent posts on bioinformatics, do so now.
Most of the concepts are way over my head but it is interesting to see how yet another “information technology” discipline bootstraps itself into being.
What would be great to see:
1) traditional software development methodologies continuing to [...]

Consensual hallucinations?

Here are some things SOME people have claimed (sometimes jokingly, sometimes vehemently) are consensual hallucinations. When I started the list I only had 2 things… I was surprised to find more examples as time went on. What do YOU think?

District9 vs the ‘America under attack’ meme

I haven’t seen district 9, [update: saw it, loved it, a bit gappy in backstory but no matter]… but just the fact that it’s NOT set in america is going to be a breath of fresh air…

Feedback Analytics : (yet) another dashboard app

Have you heard of Kampyle? Or for that matter, ‘feedback analytics‘ ? Consider it a new (and growing) facet of web analytics.