Travis Vocino Experiments in Art, Science & Technology.

On his site’s tenth anniversary, Zeldman thanks you for the memories. I love reading your site and learning from ALA and your various projects. Your book also graces my bookshelf (which is new and looks very hip, I might add).
Congratulations Jeffery. I shudder at the thought of not having your site in [...]

I’m upgrading to WordPress 1.5.1 for some security and administrative usability features. Should go fine, just wanted to drop a note for those of you subscribed.
EDIT: Ended up upgrading to 1.5.1.2, which I didn’t know existed until I went to download, so even better. As you can see, we made it to [...]

Embarrassingly, in the 21st century, in the most scientifically advanced nation the world has ever known, creationists can still persuade politicians, judges and ordinary citizens that evolution is a flawed, poorly supported fantasy. — John Rennie (Scientific American)
Time and again, science has shown that methodological naturalism can push back ignorance, finding increasingly detailed and [...]

Things I’d like to work on regarding my home.

Home Theater. Including a MythTV or iTheater on a Mac Mini setup. Better audio, HD video, etc.
Paint. Too many white walls. We currently have a greenish bluish office and a red guest bathroom but I’d like to see more.
New handles for the cabinets [...]

No, transhumanism isn’t the latest niche market for internet pr0n. It is, however, almost as interesting.

Transhumanism refers to a philosophy in which humankind as we know it does not represent the end of our development as a species. We’re just starting out on our journey. It opens all kinds of interesting avenues [...]

It’s really too bad Microsoft decided to go full Fisherprice-mode on the new Xbox 360 because I’m a big fan of the original Xbox. Looks like the Playstation 3 is going to blow it away. Not only in specs — can’t imagine them going for anything lower than the Xbox 360 when they’re [...]

Take two strings:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

and

#!/usr/bin/perl
print ‘Hello World’;

If you were to ask the average person if these strings could evolve seemingly randomly by replacing characters over time or what have you, which would they say is more likely to be the result? They would undoubtedly say the first one would be much easier and thus more likely [...]