Saturday, November 27, 2004

Science Geek Gifts for All. Banish underwear from your gift-giving list this year! Your smarty-pants friends and relatives aren't as hard to buy for as you might think. The web is full of brain-gratifying gift ideas. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News] 7:22:58 PM    comment [] Green Chemistry. Alex Steffen: USA today has a nice, short piece about the rise of green chemistry: "The fundamental idea of green chemistry is that the designer of a... [WorldChanging: Another World Is Here] 7:17:38 PM    comment [] This has relevance to other kinds of thinking besides computer architecture... Joel Spolsky: "When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all." [Scripting News] 7:16:25 PM    comment []

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