Travis Vocino Experiments in Art, Science & Technology.

As The Panda’s Thumb: Blame Aliens states, alien designers are not compatible with “intelligent design” creationism. Anything requiring the prior existence of the universe, like aliens, can not logically be the “intelligent cause” of the universe. Clearly only supernatural entities satisfy the Discovery Institute’s authoritative description of intelligent design.

I want to drag Safari tabs in and out of their parent Safari windows. I feel this would improve usability and my workflow.

Google Earth is the new extention to Google Maps as a stand-alone application. Looks very nice but there’s no OS X version as of yet.

Apple, why not just buy iPodderX? Throw them a bone. I can’t see myself ever using this elegant application again but I can’t help but feel that they have been robbed in some way.

Direct democracy doesn’t scale, but representative democracies lose touch with the public. What to do? “Societal-Scale Decision-Making Using Social Networks“, by Marko Antonio Rodriguez and Daniel Joshua Steinbock, suggests an intriguing possibility based on social networks. Instead of voting for preselected candidates, you assign voting power to whoever you trust - dividing it among several [...]

Kevin taped his first Call for Help episode in Canada and it covered the basics of setting up your own home production studio. If you’re interested, here’s the torrent file.

BBP Blue Brain Project — Scientists have been accummulating knowledge on the structure and function of the brain for the past 100 years. It is now time to start gathering this data together in a unified model and putting it to the test in simulations.