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: October 2008
27 Oct 2008
Installing Fedora 9
This weekend I installed Fedora 9 on my laptop.
First, I bought a 320 GB disk and a Rosewill enclosure for the old drive — I prefer to do fresh installs rather than in-place upgrades. It’s interesting to note that as I’ve increased the capacity (100 -> 200 -> 320 GB), the power requirements [...]
17 Oct 2008
Synthetic Telepathy
“The U.S. Army is developing a technology known as synthetic telepathy that would allow someone to create email or voice mail and send it by thought alone. The concept is based on reading electrical activity in the brain using an electroencephalograph, or EEG.” –Eric Bland (Discovery), Army developing ‘synthetic telepathy’, MSNBC
This takes the problem [...]
03 Oct 2008
Target Earth
“Unfortunately, for SV11 the alarm is not over, the date of possible impact has shifted to April 1, 2009, but it is NOT an April’s fool.” — minor planets mailing list, hat tip to Technocrat.
Look on the bright side — you may not have to fill out that 1040 after all. Actually, things [...]
01 Oct 2008
Irrefutable Logic
“[Amanda Peet] has a lot of balls to come forward and be on that side [vaccinations], because there is an angry mob on my side, and I like the fact that I can say she’s completely wrong.” and “… until she walks in our shoes, she really has no idea.” — Jenny McCarthy in an [...]
