Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Amusing side effects of popular culture

As a result of Dark Knight, I'm now getting 40-50 hits a day to my personal site, featuring the joker cheesehead down on the left side there.

I was very confused as I watched the traffic spike, then I realized the movie came out.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Real-life Superpowers, part 1

Horses store up to 50% of their red blood cells and can release them during endurance running. Self-doping, with the larger hearts needed to deal with the thicker blood that results.

Friday, July 18, 2008

Ubiquitous call recording, finally.

https://www.speechtrack.com

I've been wanting a service like this for as long as I can remember. Now they just need to offer inbound phone numbers that auto-record, and maybe a transcription service or speech-to-text.