Category: science/technology
Seriously though, let’s make a “SHARE” button (or not?)
My previous post about too many things to like and share was sitting as a draft for so long (a few months ;) that by the time I got around to finishing it Google had released this +1 business and Buzz was no longer just some strange relative that scares the kids at family gatherings but part of a real Google social networking deal. But for all my kidding around, why isn't there a single "SHARE" button I can put on my website? | read on »
There are too many things to “like”, “fav”, and “share”
Rich complex social networking is here to stay. But do we need so many services, or more to the point, do we need to see so many sharing/like buttons/icons/widgets/badges on every website and blog post? | read on »
Patent for a pig: The big business of genetics
This short documentary piece, "Patent for a pig: The big business of genetics" is an incredible introduction to the concept of patenting life. | read on »
People discuss “patenting life”
Instead of preach my obviously biased view which can only be countered with someone else's bias my first post on the bzlog on this topic is simply a bunch of people discussing the topic with wildly varying viewpoints. This is the closest I can get to presenting objective arguments on this topic. | read on »
Profit motive in GMO and labeling issues
The following interviews at a "Right to Know" rally regarding GM food labeling gives nice overview introduction to concerns about transgenic foods and why it should be labeled. The first gentleman in this video does an excellent job of expressing the problem I see with a society where making a profit as the primary motivator for anything might not be a good idea and he frames it nicely against the backdrop of the GMO debate. | read on »
In defense of GMO food: Time lapse of flooded rice in controlled field experiment
The following video shows a rice field planted with two varieties of rice, one a genetically modified rice designed specifically to be flood tolerant. Rice needs water but it apparently cannot naturally survive being completely submerged in water. Unfortunately areas good for growing rice are also prone to flooding which can have unpredictable adverse effects on rice production and the food supply. This video is time lapse of the rice crop from planting to harvest over 90 days. As the fields are planted they appear mostly identical and healthy. Until around day 21 when the entire area is flooded and[...] | read on »
A reasonable discussion and overview of Organic and Transgenic food
Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak present "Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future" as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminars About Long-term Thinking. They explore how genetic engineering can work with organic growing practices to produce food in a more sustainable way than either of them could alone. | read on »
Backwards compatibility in web development is silly!
Fed up with ten year old draft specs and DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME warnings from other web professionals I make a perhaps infallible argument for why you should be using all the latest browser technologies (and every browser version older than a month and the people who use them can go to hell). | read on »
Firefox 4 and Windows 7 taskbar preview
I was a little behind in leaving Windows XP. While I love the new taskbar in Windows 7, I wasn't loving all 100 of my Firefox tabs showing up as individual previews. Take control of the Firefox aero previews on the taskbar. | read on »