I ran into an interesting idea recently - Scientists are experimenting with the possibility of using DNA as an information storage medium. There seems to be a lot of work going into this topic as revealed by a quick google search. And it’s not just a vague theoretical exercise. Scientists have successfully written the equation […]
Port25 is the website of the Open-Source Software Lab at Microsoft.
They seem to be quite busy. . .
And the DO offer code for download ! They distribute their code under licenses which they call ‘Shared Source Licenses‘ . There’s a nice summary on Shared Source Licenses at the Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source .
Or, […]
Recently ran across Songbird - an Open-Source web-media browser. Seems to be a good alternative to winamp for online music.
I stumbled across this entry on Ajay D’Souza’s blog about a Virus on Orkut.
I received quite a few scraps from pals with this content. None of them know Portuguese.
The scrap was:
Opa, tudo bom? Eu criei um vídeo com uma seleção de minhas fotos novas, clica aí pra ver - [URL.edited.out] […]
It’s a well known fact that Humans loose their clarity of hearing with age.
However, it’s lesser known that the exact ability that human auditory equipment loose, is the ability to hear higher frequency sounds . ie, as humans grow older, they gradually loose their ability to hear high frequency sounds.
And with a little bit […]
Google has announced a new service called “Google Checkout“. Apparently this is finally some worthwhile competition for PayPal.
A real shocker: the logo is prominently lacking a “Beta” tag .
Links:
Google Checkout
Ever wish for a radio station would play only your favorite music and let you skip over songs you don’t like?
The folks of The Music Genome Project have created a radio station called “Pandora” that does just that for it’s listeners.
Tell Pandora what songs and artists you like, and you’ll hear other songs that […]
According to my stats utility, a good 87% of the visitors to Alternate’s Reality (this site) use Firefox.
Somewhat strange, since w3schools browser statistics still indicate that more than 60% of the internet population still use ie.
Ofcourse, this might also mean that I’m visiting my own site waay to often :/ .