Archives: 2005 February
The Global Consciousness Project and Quantum Effects
February 23rd, 2005, No Comments
A week or so back, the Princeton Global Consciousness Project made the news again with the usual claims about human consciousness having measurable effects on quantum random number generators. The already questionable research seemed a little more unbelievable this time around with the new claim that the REGs are detecting events before they happen. For [...]
Linux on the Dell Inspiron 8600
February 21st, 2005, No Comments
Since I last posted about this, I’ve received my new hard drive and now have Fedora Linux installed on the notebook. A suprising number of things actually worked right out of the box. I’ve been slowly getting the other bits and pieces of hardware working as I have time. This process has been made easier [...]
The Slashdot Effect
February 21st, 2005, No Comments
robots.net has been slashdotted again so mod_virgule is getting a good stress test today. So far it’s holding up with no problems. One amusing thing about being slashdotted is that you get a lot of emails from people you haven’t heard from in a while congratulating you on the event.
Vivid Ultramarine CD
February 10th, 2005, No Comments
In June of 2004 when I was participating in the DarkBlue SEO Challenge, I created the Nigritude Ultramarine FAQ. The goal of the contest was to put a page at number one in the Google results for the nonsense search phrase, “Nigritude Ultramarine”. As part of my FAQ, I tried mention other things of interest [...]
