A couple of years ago, I set out to do an experiment very similar to this one. The scientists then put the robots in a little arena with two glowing red disks. One disk they called the food source. The … Continue reading →

I don’t know how many times I’ve had that discussion where the person on the other side of the debate thinks that all video games are about killing space aliens. OK. I do know how many. It’s a lot. Most … Continue reading →

I just tried Sage – a Firefox extension for reading RSS feeds. It’s very beautiful – like an ornate teapot made of chocolate. Unfortunately it looks like no one ever actually considered using it for, like, reading RSS feeds. There … Continue reading →

According to the Neurophilosopher a patient with epilepsy was fitted with a BCI2000, a device that monitors brain activity, to monitor his seizures. Because the patient was required to remain connected to the BCI until he had a seizure, engineers … Continue reading →

If there is one application for which a web browser is supremely well-suited it’s reading web pages. That’s why I was happy to use Google’s news reader for reading blogs. Every previous RSS client I had tried behaved as though … Continue reading →

This article in Salon mourns the death of BASIC. Only, quietly and without fanfare, or even any comment or notice by software pundits, we have drifted into a situation where almost none of the millions of personal computers in America … Continue reading →

All the UI gurus say that a good user interface should make the user feel in control. This firefox extension, Mouse Gestures, makes me feel mighty! Swish! You go back. Swosh! You go forward. Slash! That stupid image is gone. … Continue reading →

Julio has a list of all the features that would be in his dream MMO.My list would be very similar but with the word ‘not’ carefully inserted into most of the sentences. But, then again, I haven’t played an online … Continue reading →

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