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Saturday, August 31, 2002
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Grid is still hot -- Comment()
Grid: there are dozens of writings about Grid popping up. I'm still (after a year) asking the same question: can computation be thought to be similar to electrical power, easy to standardize, distribute and market?
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Cook a radio receiver -- Comment()
Radio from soup: do you know the recipe for cooking a radio receiver? I once read a sf novel about group creatures with one mind in multiple bodies using wireless communication to keep the self together. Would it be possible for living creatures to use radio instead of sound for communication?
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Geckos' feet get sticky from static: sometimes even the obvious can be non-obvious. This is the reason I like science: someday someone somewhere will ask a really obvious question, which so far has not been asked.
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Gold atom by atom -- Comment()
Understanding Gold: nanotechnology advances step by step. However, it isn't clear at all what finally can be accomplished this way. What are the natural limits for technology in the small end of the scale?
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