done w/ finals. woohoo.

oh, this is interesting…750GHz chips? they use superconducting niobium w/ josephson junction devices (linewidths of about 1 µm). of course all running at below 10K.

funny quote of the day:

Moreover, unlike other emerging high-performance technologies, such as indium phosphide heterojunction bipolar transistors or resonant tunneling diode schemes, RSFQ circuit power dissipation hardly scales at all with operating frequency

holy shiznit! chromeless windows (in ie) courtesy of gabriel suchowolski. nice. hmm, if only mozilla offered chromeless rendering. actually, maybe that won’t be that hard…

while i was reading about archaic homo sapiens and big game, it occurred to me that i should share this great link that a friend gave me. coolhomepages.com has bunches of sites organized by categories based on design. that’s pretty neat. i’m going to try to do something useful with my domain names over break.

oh for those who need help, here’s how to install ssl on apache

i’m still alive. just been real caught up w/ work and stuff. studying for a final i’ll be having this afternoon. then i’ll be officially done for the semester. i’ll be spending the rest of the week trying to clear up all the cruft that’s accumulated over the past months. also, i’m midway through my antibiotics and i’m feeling markedly better than i was the past couple of weeks. um, no links, just reporting in to anyone’s who might be interested.

Sometime during the first half of the Middle Pleistocene, hominids with larger brains, higher and more round skulls, and more rounded browridges appear in the fossil record.

one more thing to get shot at for if you’re black. i’m sure that the eventual comb-gun will retroactively explain tons of police shootings.

the gamblin colors website is amazingly useful. i’m pleasantly surprised. among other things, they make galkyd. i found the site doing a search for info on flake white.

thus far, over the past few months, my cd-r drive, zip drive, hard drive, and most recently, my keyboard have all died. this has not been my semester. come to think of it, i think this string of bad luck all started with my car dying at the end of the summer.

looks like new evidence out supporting the Out of Africa theory of human origins. this news (ap report) does not concern you if you are a creationist. *snicker*

bushblog funny.

so, i just finished watching the first part of the new dune miniseries, and i’d be lying if i said i wasn’t disappointed. for a while i suppose, i’ve had my expectations unrealistically raised based on the wrtier/director’s comments, parroting about sticking close to frank herbert’s original and all that jazz. well, unfortunately, even with 4 extra hours, the miniseries ends up chopping/changing almost more important stuff than david lynch’s version. many of the characterizations are just plain wrong. i guess the main problem is that it’s such a shallow, surface interpretation of the work. it sure looks nice, but it just misses the point on so many of the characters. you sorta wonder what the time was spent on instead (that’s my otehr big beef, the pacing and direction suck). pretty lights though.