From time to time, I find that I need to install packages that are not included with the distribution I’m running. Normally, this is not a problem if you have a fast Internet access, but sometimes you may be in a situation where you have no Internet access at all. Here’s how to cope with […]

A recent film ignited a new generation of armchair epistemologists when it proposed that we could be living inside an elaborate computer simulation. While your philosophy major friends were quick to point out that thinkers since Descartes have posed the same question, it’s likely that none of them ever considered the converse: what if, unbeknownst […]

An interesting Flash-powered visual search engine for music artists. Enter your favorite band, and the site displays a bubble chart showing similar bands. The bigger the bubbles, the more popular that artist is. Many of the relationships are pretty obvious, but you may be able to find a few new bands through the site.
Gnoosic is […]

If you’re an old fart like me and actually grew up in the ’80s, you might remember a popular cartoon about a bunch of robots that ran around shooting each other, then changing into a big semi truck or jet plane and zooming off, all the while promoting the good-wins-over-evil mantra.
The Transformers was one of […]