Been reading Len Fisher’s Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life for the past couple weeks. Author of approachable explanations of science such as How to Dunk a Doughnut, Fisher is also an Ig Nobel prize winner and physicist. His goal as a writer is to make science interesting, relevant, and understandable to a [...]
Commentary and layman’s explanation of Google’s new Sidewikie product release for Firefox and IE.
by Shiaw-Ling Lai If you’re a web developer, chances are you’ve had to put up an ecommerce setup somewhere, at some point. One of the key things you need to look at before unleashing this potential monster into the real world is whether the charging system actually works like it’s supposed to. After all, just [...]
by Shiaw-Ling Lai Blue is a popular color. It’s the color of our skies and the reflection of the ocean. Bedrooms are often decorated in this color. It’s consistently polled as the favorite color of most of the people in the world. And there’s a reason why. The same reason why so many of our [...]
by Shiaw-Ling Lai In a press release published through their website, openid.net, Open ID has announced a large scale pilot project to bring Open ID to the government. No starting date has yet been announced, but once implemented, users will be able to take their Open IDs and log in to pilot programs at the [...]