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February 25, 2002

A dynamic figure

SETI@home started letting users enter profiles on the project's web site. Every day a different profile is featured. Thanks to Ali for sending me a link to this brilliant profile.

25 Feb 12:15 | Link | Category: Humor, Misc. Tidbits

February 22, 2002

North Atlantic severely overfished

New Scientist: The entire North Atlantic is being so severely overfished that it may completely collapse by 2010.

Read more from Discover Magazine in the article 2001: Year of the Ocean.

22 Feb 14:18 | Link | Category: Science

February 20, 2002

Grid computing

An interesting article about computing: Collision Course: Beating Moore's Law by 2006 will take teamwork. It's about CERN (the European nuclear physics lab & particle accelerator) utilizing grid computing, a type of distributed computing (combining cheap, less powerful computers to achieve power unparalleled by the largest, most expensive supercomputers).
In fact, when i visited Geneva last year and toured CERN, they showed us one of their huge computer labs where they had racks and racks of plain old Pentium PCs all strung together to analyze data. As the author of the article notes, they generate a lot of data... our peek at their storage system was mind-boggling.

20 Feb 19:00 | Link | Category: Science, Technology & Computing

Microsoft's lobbying efforts

ZDNet: Microsoft's lobbying efforts eclipse Enron.

20 Feb 18:56 | Link | Category: Politics, Technology & Computing

Counterproductive patenting

"Advanced technology only happens when people take a basic idea and add to it," Bemer said. "All this new patent stuff is crazy and counterproductive."

20 Feb 18:56 | Link | Category: Technology & Computing