This is the future you asked for. Airline passengers in the UK chosen for a revealing full-body scan will need to submit or they will not be allowed to fly. No word on what criteria the security personnel (who I’m sure are sensitive and above reproach) are using to select those who will be scanned. … Read more

A nice rant by Joel Johnson against those with a hate-on for the closed iPad and the “stupid” people who wish to buy them. Best quote: “If you want to walk the walk, you can follow [Richard] Stallman’s lead and do all your computing on a tiny netbook, interfacing with the internet from a text … Read more

Sooner or later I will join the cult of ubiquitous computing; I will probably require Notational Velocity to keep my idea scribbles in order and synchronized for on-the-go. Today is not that day.

A few people at work use SPSS to do statistical analysis. The language is (still) horrible. As of v14, however, Python can be used to access SPSS. This link contains a few starting points for Python-SPSS integration.

Back in November, Bill Bumgarner bought a sampler pack of safety razor blades. Week by week, he wrote a review of a different blade. The posts interested me, having recently switched to a Merkur razor. All blades have been trialled, and the results are in. Bill writes, “The Dorco, Derby, and Wilkinson Sword blades all … Read more