Isotropic is …
... my personal blog.
Unless otherwise indicated, anything I write here is simply my personal, probably ill-formed, opinion and does not represent the views, beliefs, positions, or opinions of any other person or entity.
Monthly Archives: May 2008
10 May 2008
Frangible Time
Alexandra von Feldmann calls it the Birth Clock, an “Electronic Clock that helps you to make up your mind” when you’re stuck at a major decision point in your life. A glass object containing a non-running digital clock — fragile, beautiful, timeless. Break it — amid the shards of your irreversible decision, the clock starts [...]
06 May 2008
Plant Indignity
According to Alison Abbott in Swiss ‘dignity’ law is threat to plant biology (Nature News), “The Swiss federal government’s ethics committee on non-human biotechnology has mapped out guidelines to help granting agencies decide which research applications deeply offend the dignity of plants — and hence become unfundable.” Maybe I need to rethink my Grumpy Flowers [...]
04 May 2008
On A Clear Day I Can See … Spam
zogger, in Sky Spam, at Technocrat, says Most of us have probably seen skywriting, but a new company has a twist to it, man made clouds in the form of corporate advertising that can look just like the logos. The “flogos” are made from a chemical surfactant and helium and can last for up to [...]
03 May 2008
Alien Overlords
It’s time to reassemble the interocitor and send “I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords“, if I can just find the schematics. Oh, wait…. It’s too late, baby, according to Dr. Alexander L. Zaitsev’s Detection Probability of Terrestrial Radio Signals by a Hostile Super-civilization. We don’t need to worry about the dangers of actively [...]
