free culture now or sooncome famine!
i think i had an argt or two in a k-punk comments column abt this, back at the start of the summer: i’m a bit sad the “virtual commons” meme is being declaimed by others as i wanted to COPYRIGHT[…]

“Hey, Former Internet Analyst, is [SITE X] worse than it used to be?”
“The answer, grasshopper, is always yes. But only for oneself. Three years reading, five years sitebuilding and three more years working on the net boils down to […]

And then again maybe you win some after all — looks like things aren’t as bad as I said earlier regarding the Genesis mission. “We should be able to meet many, if not all, of our primary science goals,” said physicist Roger W[…]

Total Relaxation Inducer
From the Future Slang website:
Sleep Machine (TRI): Total Relaxation Inducer. Coffin-like machine that compresses a full night’s sleep into ten minutes.
From the BBC website: World’s first sleep center opens in Ne[…]

Mmmm…Legos.
An engineering experiment that pushes all of my buttons at the same time: chocolates, Legos, and totally geeky (i.e. awesome) DIY projects. You, too, can follow the progress of the 3D chocolate printer, built out of Legos.[…]

Stuff and what we call it:
the old ones are the best – tin, gold, diamond – and that’s not just bcz they’ve been around a long time and we got used to them: it’s also bcz ppl at the head of the stuff-naming queue got to[…]

4th Annual University of Toronto Physics Jamboree
Despite the silly name, this is actually a very creative introduction to the work done in our department. The concept : in alphabetical order, each professor must present an introduction to their work[…]

…and you lose some — the Genesis probe that was due to return to earth today, having collected a slew of solar particles, has done so — only not as intended. Success is never guaranteed, of course, but this is in many ways like the[…]

is it tempting fate to delightedly yell “haha in yr face orthodox medical science”?
Ans = yes, since there’s a lot still to be surmounted and my mum remains fairly ill BUT she regained consciousness unexpectedly on monday night an[…]

Vote Beaker the word went, and we did, and it worked! Science has been served.[…]