Encephalosponge » Soaking Up Life

Today’s comic is the epitome of xkcd. A bit of humor, a bit of wonder, a bit of truth, and large chunk of geek. I really enjoyed it (and I especially liked seeing Ford Prefect!) Here’s another of my favorites from a few months ago. Don’t forget to read the mouse-over [...]

Yes, it can.

Some people say that anesthesiology is kind of boring like 98% of the time. But what about that other 2%?

There’s an interesting discussion over on /. about the future of Blu-ray. Despite beating out HD-DVD a few months back, this format has yet to take off. Too much DRM? Failing economy? Players and movies too expensive? No good titles? Don’t see the benefit of upgrading when you’ve only [...]

Ars Technica wrote up an article on a new open-source textbook offering from Flat World Knowledge. I’m very interested to see how it works out.

The passionates vs. the non-passionates by Robert Scoble. Great article on what makes a successful company and how to get new users for your products, whether that be a blog or a piece of software or something else entirely. The descriptions of “non-passionates” rings very true with me.

Kingston is selling a bunch of flash drives for pretty cheap with free shipping. This is a great opportunity for new students to grab a flash drive if you haven’t yet. They come in very handy if you’re using public computers at school. I know I never leave home without mine! [...]

After McCain finally released a technology policy, Lawrence Lessig takes a comparative look at the two candidates’ policies. Save our intarwebs!

Learn the principles of chemistry with the Chemical Party video [hat tip Peter Srinu].

Vendors Rally While Windows Sleeps by Mike Elgan (PCWorld) I must say I have to agree with this article. Windows appears to be complacent and vendors are seeing an opportunity to create custom solutions for people by bypassing Windows when it’s not needed.