Photo taken with a cheapo LG Optimus L9 phone and enhanced with Topaz Clarity.   Had seen this sign a few times before and wanted to take a photo of it. This last time I passed it I remembered to. You don’t usually see signs like this. In fact its the only one like it…

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Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology are working on solving how to program computers using natural language. They claim to have made a significant breakthrough with respect to how the ordering of things via natural language can be correctly interpreted by a computer. This really makes me step back and think. Right now there…

People often discount headlines like these because, while they may sound amazing, sometimes they only reflect some special test condition in a laboratory, or only apply to one particular property of something while other significantly limiting factors still exist. But this appears to not be the case with this headline. Proffessor Chen Xiaodong, research fellow…

Professional sports in the United States is disgusting and sickening. It has nothing to do with true athletics. Some of the people involved make exorbitant amounts of money while adding no value to society. It breeds a disgusting mindset. Not far from where I live I can hear high school kids practicing sports on a…

I think I wrote a while back about getting a used Dell Optiplex 960 Small Form Factor (SFF) computer to use as a compact home server which runs Debian Linux. It is an excellently built machine of enterprise grade. One cool feature which is almost indispensable for running it as a headless (no monitor) home…

“…we now think that the big mass extinctions were caused by global anoxia, the oceans themselves so sluggish that the hydrogen sulfide bacteria are produced in huge areas of the ocean bottom, [which] bubbles up to the surface, and starts killing things…” Paleontologist and Astrobiologist Peter Ward speaks about the effect of global warming which…

There’s now an app which allows one to monitor for cosmic rays via a phone’s camera sensor. When I first read the article I thought it was about gamma rays which are the highest-energy form of light in the electromagnetic spectrum. Cosmic rays are totally different and often come from highly cataclysmic events outside the…

There’s a cool documentary at NHK about the Taiwanese bicycle company Giant and about how they became so successful. King Liu Surviving as the Only One! King Liu is the chairman and founder of Giant, the world’s top bicycle manufacturer. He is 79 years old and still going strong. This episode explores how he took…

For those lucky people who use Netgear’s DGND3700 V1 as their DSL modem/home router there is an updated firmware available at richud.com. It includes a number of security fixes and enhancements, updated components, bugfixes, and more.