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Nice review of Skype and Google Talk. I’m using Google talk and find it to be nice and easy. The only downside I see to both Skype and Google Talk is you are limited to chatting with one person at … Continue reading →

I posted recently about open textbooks on the wikipedia site. There were a couple of books that looked interesting, but I wonder if this one will last for very long. A book like this could come in handy…

My 1 year old is at the stage that always amazes me. Or rather he is at ONE of the stages that always amazes me. The little guy is an expert crawler. He can either crawl on his hands and … Continue reading →

Some are calling this a disaster. A security robot attacks the Japanese Prime Minister. Apparently it threw up a smoke screen right after meeting the PM. Politicians, smoke screens… It somehow seems perfectly rational to me.

Video game developers have moved into a new field. VR therapy allows Doctors to help “combatants cope with the personal psychological effects of war”.

This is a photo of the highest jump ever by a human being. It was done back in the 60s as part of the space program. An interesting article on the story can be found here. He jumped at an … Continue reading →

I started reading Shel Silverstone to my son when he was barely old enough to talk. He could never understand why a single verse was called a poem, and a collection of poems was called Poetry. So he always called … Continue reading →

Looks like Wikipedia now has text books?

This is a nice list of some of the open, free and reliable programs availbale out there. While I can’t vouch for all of them (I haven’t used some, and don’t like a few on the list), I do us … Continue reading →

Google maps have been ‘hacked’ (I’m using that word in the original sense, meaning a cool way to do something, instead of the media twisted sense meaning a malicious prank) in yet another cool way. You can now track from … Continue reading →