January 2010
4 posts
Cosmos
Watching Cosmos episode 1 again, I see that there’s a kind of lull in the first 20+ minutes where we follow Carl in his Spaceship of the Imagination haphazardly through the universe, slowly approaching our Earth. A lull where one one might think: “is the whole show like this? it’s kinda boring me”. Please, if you happen to be watching the Cosmos TV series and come to this...
iPad
So Apple’s tablet is unveiled, and perhaps the biggest surprise is that there’s no surprises. It’s like a big iPhone, very slick big-screen versions of some iPhone applications, like mail, notes, contacts & calendar, plus a few new obvious things like the book reader & video player. It matches just about the minimum of my expectations, but what is there is done really...
The growing anti-science movements are scary and... →
also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiscience
