Monthly Archives: June 2009

Communication Media

[Note: There's basically no point to this post. But hey, it's the Internet. That's allowed here.] Media I can use to communicate with people I know in person: Phone call. The highest-bandwidth and lowest-latency medium, unless you get voicemail. But somehow the least preferred. Text message. Annoyingly brief and usually vapid; useful for arranging meetings …

June 29, 2009 – 12:12 am | By Cap'n Refsmmat | Posted in Life | Comments (2)

Brilliant Idea

To prevent phishing, all Internet scams and cons should be required by ICANN to use the TLD .con rather than .com. That is all.

June 16, 2009 – 4:32 pm | By Cap'n Refsmmat | Posted in computers | Comments (1)

What a Weird World

Deep in space, a fire burns. It is not an ordinary fire. It is the heat of uncountable gazillions of tiny pairs of protons and electrons being squished together at incredible temperatures, releasing scads of energy. The energy is transmitted outward, through clouds of zillions of other pairs, until finally it reaches the surface of …

June 4, 2009 – 10:11 pm | By Cap'n Refsmmat | Posted in Science | Tagged , | Comments (1)