Category: Geek

• Dispatches From the Hyperlocal Future
  Brilliant
  (tags: future technology wired)

• Cyclists should not sign the UCI’s anti-doping charter « Run to Win »
  Blaine’s right-on for this one. Although, it’s hard to argue with the cyclists who sign it – it’s how they put food on the table
  (tags: doping tdf UCI cycling LeTour)
• /. Google Setting Up a Presence In Kenya
  This is big. Africa, I mean. Lots of natural resources, cheap labor, and essentially nothing existing on the ground. A veritable tabula rasa for building the 22nd century. Sure, there are problems to be solved…
  (tags: future geek network OLPC)
• 30,000 matches… ignited
  This should not excite me like it does
  (tags: cool fire make)

• Lance defends his honor again
  So, looks like people are still trying to get cash out of allegations that Armstrong doped. Screw them. This is Lance’s response, and more power to him.
  (tags: tdf LeTour cycling)
• Antibacterial products may be bad news
  This is something I’ve been saying for a while. Much like we’ve developed super-bugs like drug-resistant TB, we’re growing common bacteria that aren’t affected by this stuff anymore. And, we’re compromising our own immune systems by not exercising them wi
  (tags: health)
• Open Source » Doping: Better Sporting Through Chemistry?
  I cannot wait to listen to this one.
  (tags: doping)
• A Passion for Running » the big 4-0
  Wish Mark Happy Birthday
  (tags: RBF canada)

• Open Source Life: How the open movement will change everything – lifehack.org
  This is an interesting concept. Not sure that I buy the extension, as it’s mostly libertarianism respun for the third millenium.
  (tags: opensource future geek cc)
• When chemistry is outlawed, only outlaws will do chemistry
  Makes me want to go get the kids a bunsen burner and a bunch of glassware, just to see how long it takes them to blow up the garage. This stuff makes me mad – it’s done, in theory, to “make us safer”, but the long-term consequences are that we’re going to
  (tags: science politics)
• McQuaid urges pre-Tour anti-doping pledge
  Blah, blah, blah – how does this help? How ’bout a pre-tour doping amnesty, allowing guys to confess to past ills and THEN promise to be clean in the future?
  (tags: cycling doping tdf uci)
• Cyclist abused at Minneapolis Airport
  Scary, Scary
  (tags: cycling)

• More Mac-y goodness for PCs
  iTunes first, now Safari for Windows (XP and Vista). Can hardware agnostic OS X be far behind?
  (tags: apple software freestuff)

InstallingSafarionXP

Originally uploaded by billjank.
So, I had to stop and grab this on the way home. Dunno what it means – installing a piece of Apple software on a Microsoft OS running in Parallels virtualization on Apple hardware. Pretty cool, nontheless.

Now, all I’m waiting for is someone to get it running in WINE.

• Dante’s Inferno – A Virtual Tour of Hell
  Cooler than Cliff’s Notes
  (tags: literature)

• The contact lenses that could restore 20/20 vision
  This is really cool – Wear contacts at night, wake up with perfect vision.
  (tags: hack health)
• Navy CIO ‘recognizes the importance of OSS to the warfighter’
  Sweet.
  (tags: opensource Navy software)
• Table of Malcontents – Wired Blogs
  Don’t you wish the future were still cool?
  (tags: geek)

• MAKE: Blog: Solar powered outdoor WiFi access kit
  Only $99, which is cheap enough to make it dangerous.
  (tags: wifi geek hardware)
• Riis erased from Tour Guide
  So, the second item here is Bjarne Riis getting purged from the TdF guide for admitting to doping during his 1995 win. While I’m not in favor of doping, this opens a can of worms, as some of the big names in the Tour have admitted to amphetimine, etc use
  (tags: doping uci cycling)