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Compressed Index Of Articles
last update 01 may 08
* This page provides an index to back issues of MrG's weblogs, with short
listings of articles in each monthly log.
- APR 2008 -- shipping & waste disposal infrastructure,
Florida road trip again, technology & government survey, renewable energy
in Germany, hemispherectomies (removal of a brain hemisphere), city WiFi
sees some successes, early electric bus fiasco, squabble over unclaimed
gift card money, phone phreaking, Aptera electric car, "freeconomics",
Canadian DEXTRE arm for International Space Station, Boeing loses KC-45
tanker deal to EADS Airbus, no more cheap food, and global struggle
against smoking.
- MAR 2008 -- shipping infrastructure, Pacific coast
road trip, augmented reality systems, Arab unhappiness, consciousness
examined (sort of), toilets for the developing world, a short history of
the census, ethanol versus water supplies, electric drive for ships and
planes, online games to do work, using terrorists to fight terrorism, &
solar America plan.
- FEB 2008 -- aviation infrastructure, road trips, the
fall of the hunter-gatherers, Nazbatag smart bunnies, Virgin's
SpaceShipTwo commercial spacecraft, smart TV systems in stores, Lawrence
Lessig, parachute birdmen, smart car electronic systems, manned mission to
an asteroid, Toyota problems, & Blu-Ray wins the super-DVD wars.
- JAN 2008 -- aviation infrastructure, Florida road
trip. relationships among the cat family, materials harder than diamond,
Morton's demon, US space exploration policy reconsidered, huge extinct
rodent, free-space optical datalinks, changes in car sales, rivalry
between the Bible & the Koran, the disastrous eruption of Laki in 1783,
obtaining methane from depleted oil fields with bacteria, the
organizational & financial challenge of developing video games, and the
evolution of pygmies.
- DEC 2007 -- bridge & tunnel infrastructure, Florida
road trip, living an online life, alien life-forms on Earth, Monsanto wins
big with genetically modified crops, no drugs being developed for kids,
Chinese product piracy revisited, electric power plug congestion, the
Earth after humankind, Guantanamo being phased out, mysterious natural
stone circles, weak bite of the sabretooth tiger, pollution from livestock
wastes, and steampunk laptop.
- NOV 2007 -- bridge & tunnel infrastructure, Florida
road trip, Danone bacterial biotech for yogurt, FBI DCSNet wiretap system,
danger moose, geoweb technology, USA red tape, Chinese clone manufacture,
improved oil platforms, warning schemes for nuclear depositories,
wind-based power networking, India's railroads, Chinese military buildup,
and Alex the genius African grey parrot.
- OCT 2007 -- railroad infrastructure, Florida road
trip, Chinese corpse brides, African micro-hydro, astronaut attitude
problems, natural house construction, new San Francisco Bay Bridge,
electronic RF sensor networks for conservation, the law and electronic
discovery, Ethiopian commodities exchange, RFID introduction delayed,
Boeing 787 Dreamliner, third-world economic benefits of cellphones, shady
DNA analysis by mail, immobots, and Chick tracts.
- SEP 2007 -- railroad infrastructure, California road
trip, resurgence of dengue fever, wind power in India, medical potential
of symbiotic bacteria, personal rapid transport, contention over the North
Pole's resources, Virgin America review, animal microtags, KGB in charge
of Russia, cowbird protection racket, name-analysis software for security,
tracing city population shifts through cellphones, fuzzy memories, and
Canon Powershot camera.
- AUG 2007 -- railroad and road infrastructure,
California road trip, home hybrid power-heating systems, genetically
modified mosquitos, prenatal genetic testing controversy, emissions
trading controversy, updating the Panama canal, phone card ripoffs, ICBMs
for conventional strike, personal supercomputing, coin hoarding in India,
Alpine & Gibraltar tunnels, user interface for XO computer, forensic
shoeprint analysis, and the risks of being an archaeologist.
- JUL 2007 -- road infrastructure, THE MAKING OF THE
FITTEST, Chinese social problems, trees & global warming, cybersafety
rethought, hemp for victory, DNA analysis for conservation, more on Second
Life, bogus statistical analysis in medicine, money transfers for
developing-world cellphone users, recycled PCs for the developing world,
North Korean intranet, vaccines against recreational drugs, fuels from
algae, and varmints in space.
- JUN 2007 -- communications infrastructure, THE MAKING
OF THE FITTEST, voice input on the rise, Estonian oil shale, Swiss bomb
shelters, smarter radiation therapy against cancer, Google bashing,
Frananglais in Cameroons, reviving the 1918 flu, counterfeiting
holographic seals, Moscow casinos, gift card scams revisited, and
eyeglasses for poor countries.
- MAY 2007 -- communications infrastructure, THE MAKING
OF THE FITTEST, XO security systems, domain-tasting scams, local money in
Germany, biofuel versus food, mediation services, Mexican digital
education systems, neglected tropical diseases, surrogate reproduction,
recycling paper, Marine space assault vehicles, medical ID theft,
nonobviousness & patents, ultracheap cars, and tort reform in the US
states.
- APR 2007 -- power grid infrastructure, THE MAKING OF
THE FITTEST, radiation therapy versus the war on terror, indian tribes
ascendant, electronic textbooks, cheap inhalers for administering drugs,
questionable food activism, sudden infant death syndrome, artificial
sweeteners, national driver's license format controversy, machine
translation techniques, proxy servers versus censors, Kennedy
assassination.
- MAR 2007 -- power grid infrastructure, a short history
of life, future cellphones, RFID tagging luggage, Chinese sweatshop
practices, Boeing versus Airbus, ethanol in Latin America, the Earth's
fading magnetic field, cheating with online scoring systems, using the
internet in Baghdad, improved geothermal energy technology, modular home
construction, the art of bribery, space pen myth.
- FEB 2007 -- power grid infrastructure, short history
of life, MySpace fakery, Hillary for president, ZUMWALT destroyer, global
warming lawsuits, pythons in Florida, automotive black boxes, Iranian oil
drought, traffic roundabouts in Canada, tracking spam, Chinese ecopolis,
bizarre warning labels.
- JAN 2007 -- power plant infrastructure, short history
of life, digital graffiti, Randi challenge, money cards, green business
bubble, modifying intestinal flora, future energy tech, online jihadism,
Japanese balloon maker, alternative computing for the developing world,
Russian population decline, my new Yaris, Airborne quackery, recycling
airliners, emerging economies.
- DEC 2006 -- power plant infrastructure, PC interfaces &
networking, click fraud details, North Korean nuclear dud, power from
trash, high-tech concrete, Second Life virtual environment, fake priests
in Japan, hydraulic hybrid vehicles, US population reaches 300 million,
LED lighting for developing countries, automotive security systems,
industrial recycling, fancy Japanese wave interference tank.
- NOV 2006 -- oil & gas infrastructure, brain games,
Orion space capsule, extended warranties, AIDS in the USA, store security
systems, Segway scooters, business investment in Africa, H2S doomsday,
$100 PC revisited, green China, Amazon.com keeps on pushing,
fraud-spotting software, green building certification, Russian
construction, cybercrime foot soldiers, six word stories.
- OCT 2006 -- oil & gas infrastructure, another road
trip, fisheries quota system, THE ONION, Sunni versus Shiite in Iraq, 100
MPG cars, Africa@Home network, the problem with NOCs, recycling STAR TREK,
deep oil wells, efficient VA medical service, Internet Explorer 7, palm
oil biodiesel, falling oil prices, optimistic Iran, Russia annoys Israel.
- SEP 2006 -- farming infrastructure, Dawkins' THE BLIND
WATCHMAKER, ISS progress, defense contractors and Iraq, RFID insecurity,
Athabasca tar sands, Africa progress, robot surgeons, Freedom tower, smart
buildings, 911 conspiracies, plastic solar power units, London Ring Of
Steel, Moscow spammer, and GI blogs.
- AUG 2006 -- food & farming infrastructure, Dawkins'
THE BLIND WATCHMAKER, arctic seed repository, Indian call centers,
corporate nurses, 747 fire tanker, Pluto demoted, sleazy adware companies,
inside-out surgery, pachislots, war in Lebanon, Jack radio, electronic
ICUs, intestinal bacteria, web-based microfinancing, and standby power in
consumer products.
- JUL 2006 -- waterworks infrastructure, Dawkins' THE
BLIND WATCHMAKER, another road trip, Texas wind power, mad Kim Il-Jong,
internet server farms, smart space probes, games on cellphones, shrewd
Hugo Chavez, Russian Moon probes, cellphones in Africa, ID theft
exaggerated, air traffic control controversy, SOP superchips, Japanese
assertiveness, electricity-producing bacteria.
- JUN 2006 -- mining and waterworks infrastructure,
another road trip, Orbital Express space mission, holographic solar
concentrators, changes in US War on Terror policies, new digital camera
features, gas prices, combat armor, automotive thermophotovoltaic systems,
medical cost-effectiveness, Mexican engineers, death of Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi in Iraq, saving power in NYC, self-powered sensors, changes in
Saudi society, synthetic diamonds, voice-activated laptops for
recuperating GIs.
- MAY 2006 mining infrastructure, my fun with business
cards, Three Gorges dam, $100 laptop, barcoding nature, advertising &
Tivo, my new car, flash environments, bear mutts, energy availability,
.xxx domains, disease mongering, American Airlines, Chinese
authoritarianism, San Francisco versus earthquakes, pricetag for Iraq,
power from manure, intimidation cyberscams.
- APR 2006 -- mining infrastructure, welcome to 2006,
747 homestead, recycling PCs, Fibonancci poems, getting scammed by ISPs,
COSMIC satellites, green tags, lawn GM, urban gaming, mandarin, panda
diplomacy, TV-GPS, cosmic rays versus astronauts, methane hydrates,
microdrives.
- MAR 2006 -- welcome to 2006, video placeshifting,
vertical wind turbines, pet gene analysis, seconds added to years, Italian
cops online, responsive space, tidal & wave power, mythological Blackstar,
gold as medicine, power from dog droppings, infrared imagers for cars,
802.11n Wi-Fi, Stanley Fubar, regenerative automotive systems, nanocars,
Web-based microfinancing, Denmarks governs with the web, dry urinals,
caller ID abuse, secret Lockheed airship, brain implants, and Russian
consumerism.
- FEB 2006 -- virtual human models, quick kill system,
New York organleggers, breaking up ice jams, resurrecting the thylacine,
modern trains, phishing scams, navsat traffic monitoring, Coast to Coast
AM, robot rebellion, smart trash recycling, high-altitude LTA
surveillance, electronics for toddlers, Jim Gary scrap dinosaurs,
cellphone financial transactions, improved product coatings,
micro-windpower, my misadventures with ripping MP3s, medical lawsuits
overblown, robot military vehicles, Bush II Administration versus the
courts, Russia versus NGOs, hard and soft diplomacy, al-Qaeda versus
locals in Iraq.
- JAN 2006 -- The Movies machinima, terrorist threat to
chemical plants, space Learjet, e-gold troubles, junk patents, Chinese net
censorship, C.K. Prahalad's economic ideas, prayer rug scam, advertising
in odd places, backhoe threat to fiber-optic lines, Hofstader's paranoid
style essay, conversion to digital TV, virtual conferencing systems, US
Army training grounds, Chinese net cops, medical malpractice lawsuits,
Electroplankon digital environment, continuously variable transmissions,
technology for old Japanese, ultra-tech Smartwrap house, Canadian butter
wars, microdot ID systems, economic hardship in the Great Plains, click
fraud, Japanese car plants in the USA, tsunami alert system, fun and games
with product rebates, political issues over vaccine production, gift card
scams, promoting commercial space, military blogs.
- DEC 2005 -- Microsoft diversification, Arabs less keen
on terrorism, Vietnamese enterprise, US military greenery, retailers go
online, robot surgery, oceanic oil rigs & nodding donkey pumps, a colder
Europe, more on Intelligent Design, centrism in US politics, proofreading
my documents, shifting magnetic poles, technology for developing world,
Iraq elections, clean coal power, dog cellphones, Iraq exit, super
container ships, my physics document, terrorism as a business, Brazil's
EMBRAER, businesslike NGOs, education by podcast, airliner defensive
systems, Detroit seeks fuel-efficient cars, UN relief needs money, 100,000
website visitors.
- NOV 2005 -- McCain & Wilkerson blast Bush II
Administration, return of aggressor squadrons, airlines on the upswing,
Ahmadinejad blasts Israel, antibiotic-resistant staph, high gas prices,
Bill Buckley turns 80, ARAMCO dominates oil producers, Japan likes robots,
Sony copy protection fiasco, France and US get along, peanut butter for
the developing world, arranged marriages online, terrorist finance
tracking fiasco, machinima videos, Wolfram & Hart online, terrorist
attacks in Jordan, virtual properties, intelligent design controversy,
spam blogs, Charity Navigator, Afghan opium, Transdimensional, global car
industry, CIA extraordinary rendition, H5N1 flu precautions, my own blog.
- OCT 2005 -- banana horticulture, battle of Palmdale
1956, Afghan opium, virtual machines against digital decay, Japans rises,
Democrats be careful, Transdimensional, drought in Africa & donkey
protection, underground coal fires, London Underground map, Dick Feynman,
global car industry, new PC file system approach, subliminal advertising,
Magnatune music sharing, suburban wildlife problems.
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