Far back, in the mists of ancient time, there existed a technology for sharing one’s thoughts, musings, memes, and other nonsense. You may have heard of it, if you’re over 40. The web log, or blog. The [more...]
A lot of time and effort has gone into television production to try to make the fluid motion of video look like film. The differing frame rates of video and film make converting between the two fraught with mathematics: [more...]
The media have reported that the president did not show at the Boy Scout Jamboree yesterday evening because of poor weather. But I just read a report that makes me wonder if the White House wasn’t lying about that [more...]
I check Google’s brilliant new news page a couple times each day. It’s put together by algorithms which, I assume, take into account such factors as the popularity of news searches. So, I’m a bit [more...]
