http://blog.dyck.org/ Tim Miller Dyck's blog: faith, technology, culture, science en-us Copyright 2012 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:34:38 -0500 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:46:53 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.12 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss He is determined to provide affordable, good quality food. Foodking's meals cost 20-45 rupees (25p-54p; $0.37-0.84) each - which would more usually buy only fast food. To keep prices low, premises are simple. And while Sarath is happy to pitch... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/12/bbc_news_my_bus.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/12/bbc_news_my_bus.html Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:34:38 -0500 Day and night the conference line was never dead. Blind phone phreaks all over the country, lonely and isolated in homes filled with active sighted brothers and sisters, or trapped with slow and unimaginative blind kids in straitjacket schools for... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/12/the_article_tha.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/12/the_article_tha.html Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:37:52 -0500 See http://www.box.com/shared/static/a6omcl2la0ivlxsn3o8m.jpg... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/12/visual_guide_to.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/12/visual_guide_to.html Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:49:01 -0500 Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books More than 5,000 of you nominated. More than 60,000 of you voted. And now the results are in. The winners of NPR's Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy survey are an intriguing mix of... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/12/your_picks_top.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/12/your_picks_top.html Books Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:44:41 -0500 High in the Pamir mountains, Afghanistan meets its northern neighbour Tajikistan on the banks of the thundering Panj River. For most of the last century, this marked the southern limit of Soviet Central Asia, and there is still an outpost... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/11/bbc_news_yaks_m.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/11/bbc_news_yaks_m.html Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:19:50 -0500 But space is a particularly romanticised part of our vision of exploration, says Dr Eric Rabkin, a professor of English at the University of Michigan who specialises in science fiction. It's because of the unknown, he says. Trains must go... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/08/bbc_news_what_s.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/08/bbc_news_what_s.html Science Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:34:54 -0500 A lot of the things we cherish today lead to thete lifestyles and they result in us ultimately destroying ourselves. Stephenson posits an alternative: tribes. And, in Diamond Age, the most successful tribe is the neo-Victorians. The thetes resent them... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/07/from_gamificati.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/07/from_gamificati.html Science Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:34:56 -0500 One April evening in 1973--at the height of the flood--a fisherman walked onto the structure. There is, after all, order in the universe, and some things take precedence over impending disasters. On the inflow side, facing the Mississippi, the structure... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/07/fighting_the_mi.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/07/fighting_the_mi.html Science Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:39:44 -0500 One night, I was guarding a prisoner with a friend of mine, a guy I had gone to church with before we had deployed. So we're sitting there and my friend starts making threatening statements about what he wants to... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/04/the_wrong_stuff.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/04/the_wrong_stuff.html Current Events Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:05:40 -0500 I always approached software with this philosophy. I've often been paid for programming, but I've been paid directly for the hours I spent programming. I never even considered it reasonable to be paid again for programming I did in the... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/03/proprietary_sof.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2011/03/proprietary_sof.html Computer Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:44:10 -0500 Inside the breezeblock ciderhouse, the air is cool and damp. The atmosphere is anything but. Six ruddy-nosed Scotsmen, down for the week, merrily poke fun at each other around a Formica table, a tankard in each hand and a few... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2010/10/bbc_travel_the.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2010/10/bbc_travel_the.html Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:02:38 -0500 When it was gone; the oak forests of England were on the floor. Four thousand had fallen in the New Forest alone; another 3,000 in the Forest of Dean. And John Evelyn, the Fellow of the Royal Society, whose great... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2010/05/bbc_news_the_tr.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2010/05/bbc_news_the_tr.html History Sun, 09 May 2010 09:52:57 -0500 Saying that the kernel should have no protocol understanding because you might wish to decode the signals from the remote to your 1976 airconditioner using a diode hooked to the mic connector on your soundcard sound to me like saying... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/12/kernel_support.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/12/kernel_support.html Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:49:19 -0500 A new study confirms that the reaction time of cell phone users slows dramatically, increasing the risk of accidents and tying up traffic in general, and when young adults use cell phones while driving, they're as bad as sleepy septuagenarians.... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/12/drivers_on_cell.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/12/drivers_on_cell.html Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:39:16 -0500 According to the report, qualities such as application, self-regulation and empathy were more likely to be developed in children whose parents employed a "tough love" approach. It found that these qualities made "a vital contribution to life chances, mobility and... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/11/bbc_news_uk_tou.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/11/bbc_news_uk_tou.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:32:19 -0500