I Want My Nobel Prize In Physics, Goddammit!

For at least fifteen years I’ve been saying light is a strand.

I happened to mention it in passing without any elaboration in this blog!

So what’s published today?

The universe is a string-net liquid
15 March 2007
From New Scientist Print Edition.

This led Wen and Levin to the idea that there may be a different way of thinking about matter. What if electrons were not really elementary, but were formed at the ends of long “strings” of other, fundamental particles? They formulated a model in which such strings are free to move “like noodles in a soup” and weave together into huge “string-nets”.

Light and matter unified
The pair ran simulations to see if their string-nets could give rise to conventional particles and fractionally charged quasi-particles. They did. They also found something even more surprising. As the net of strings vibrated, it produced a wave that behaved according to a very familiar set of laws – Maxwell’s equations, which describe the behaviour of light. “A hundred and fifty years after Maxwell wrote them down, here they emerged by accident,” says Wen.

— emphasis added by me.

Bill Gates and his bullshit Think Weeks never intuited that!

Myhrvold was too busy being a Gates lackey.

I want my Nobel Prize, goddammit!

Get The Word, Nerd

Previously, I wondered (somewhat snarkily and very skeptically) about a new blog called Book Chronicle:

Let’s see if they wind up with any of the authors already in my Blogroll: Christopher Fowler, Dennis Potter, Derek Raymond, Harry Stephen Keeler, James Hadley Chase, John Straley, K.A. Bedford, Ken Bruen, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, Mark Billingham, Victor Gischler, John Scalzi. Also Tito Perdue, who has no website. Same for Barry M. Malzberg.

Well, they showed me!

The first author they chose is none other than John Scalzi and his book The Ghost Brigades!

Congratulations to John and good luck to Book Chronicle!

Now all of you go there. And read what they recommend!

Previous coverage in this blog:
Nerd Word

Reference: Discount Loot!

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A real example:

30GB Creatize Zen Vision Portable Media Player (White Version) $165 After $80 Rebate

Tech prOn: Digital Cube’s i-Station G43 UMPC

Hands-on with Digital Cube’s “world’s smallest” UMPC: the G43

The first thing you need to know about Digital Cube’s i-Station G43 UMPC is that it’s small. Not crazy small, just small for a device labeled a UMPC. That’s primarily due to that fact that it sports a 4.3-inch, 800 x 480 touch-screen display instead of the big ol’ 7-incher featured on most UMPCs. Its primary limitation then, is the fact that it runs an AMD Geode LX800/900 running at 500MHz (throttled back to 398MHz in the prototype on display at CeBIT). That means XP and Linux, no Vista Home Professional for you. Still, with 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth, choice of 30GB or 60GB disks, a speaker dock, USB-host port, and a nice touch-pad mousing interface along the left-hand side, it will certainly fill a void in somebody’s ultra mobile lifestyle. You know, whenever it might ship.

Does it compute?

Love Calculator results
These are the results of the calculations by Dr. Love:

Mike Cane loves i-Station G43

58 %

Dr. Love thinks that a relationship between Mike Cane and i-Station G43 has a reasonable chance of working out, but on the other hand, it might not. Your relationship may suffer good and bad times. If things might not be working out as you would like them to, do not hesitate to talk about it with the person involved. Spend time together, talk with each other.

Oh my God!! A higher score than the Samsung Q1 got! Doc Love is right. I have a major lust for this thing. And yet, sniff!, I see no evidence of a stylus or stylus well in the photos!

So, where’s the new Raon Digital VEGA, dammit?!!?

Previous Love Calculations in this blog:
Doctor Love Upgrade Advice
It’s Official! Our President Is A Sociopath!
It’s Official! Jeff Hawkins Still Likes Most Of Palm!
Heather The Hot: See? I’ve Found A Way For Our Love To Grow!
Holy Shit! Doctor Love Is ACCURATE!!!!
Hmmm… Maybe Doctor Love Is Full Of Shit After All…
Heather The Hot: The Results Are In!!

Doctor Love Upgrade Advice

The Love Calculator

Love Calculator results
These are the results of the calculations by Dr. Love:

Mike Cane loves Palm LifeDrive

16 %

Dr. Love thinks a relationship might work out between Mike Cane and Palm LifeDrive, but the chance is very small. A successful relationship is possible, but you both have to work on it. Do not sit back and think that it will all work out fine, because it might not be working out the way you wanted it to. Spend as much time with each other as possible. Again, the chance of this relationship working out is very small, so even when you do work hard on it, it still might not work out.

And:

Love Calculator results
These are the results of the calculations by Dr. Love:

Mike Cane loves Apple iPhone

94 %

Dr. Love thinks that a relationship between Mike Cane and Apple iPhone has a very good chance of being successful, but this doesn’t mean that you don’t have to work on the relationship. Remember that every relationship needs spending time together, talking with each other etc.

And:

Love Calculator results
These are the results of the calculations by Dr. Love:

Mike Cane loves Samsung Q1

28 %

The chance of a relationship working out between Mike Cane and Samsung Q1 is not very big, but a relationship is very well possible, if the two of you really want it to, and are prepared to make some sacrifices for it. You’ll have to spend a lot of quality time together. You must be aware of the fact that this relationship might not work out at all, no matter how much time you invest in it.

And:

Love Calculator results
These are the results of the calculations by Dr. Love:

Mike Cane loves Palm OS

68 %

Dr. Love thinks that a relationship between Mike Cane and Palm OS has a reasonable chance of working out, but on the other hand, it might not. Your relationship may suffer good and bad times. If things might not be working out as you would like them to, do not hesitate to talk about it with the person involved. Spend time together, talk with each other.

And:

Love Calculator results
These are the results of the calculations by Dr. Love:

Mike Cane loves Windows Mobile

24 %

Dr. Love thinks a relationship might work out between Mike Cane and Windows Mobile, but the chance is very small. A successful relationship is possible, but you both have to work on it. Do not sit back and think that it will all work out fine, because it might not be working out the way you wanted it to. Spend as much time with each other as possible. Again, the chance of this relationship working out is very small, so even when you do work hard on it, it still might not work out.

No, I didn’t make these up!

I don’t know about that LifeDrive score. There’s not much of it to love right now, as it is still dead.

Doc Love comes through on the iPhone!

Previous Love Calculations in this blog:
It’s Official! Our President Is A Sociopath!
It’s Official! Jeff Hawkins Still Likes Most Of Palm!
Heather The Hot: See? I’ve Found A Way For Our Love To Grow!
Holy Shit! Doctor Love Is ACCURATE!!!!
Hmmm… Maybe Doctor Love Is Full Of Shit After All…
Heather The Hot: The Results Are In!

It’s Official! Our President Is A Sociopath!

The Love Calculator

Love Calculator results
These are the results of the calculations by Dr. Love:

George Bush loves George Bush

96 %

Dr. Love thinks that a relationship between George Bush and George Bush has a very good chance of being successful, but this doesn’t mean that you don’t have to work on the relationship. Remember that every relationship needs spending time together, talking with each other etc.

Previous Love Calculations in this blog:
It’s Official! Jeff Hawkins Still Likes Most Of Palm!
Heather The Hot: See? I’ve Found A Way For Our Love To Grow!
Holy Shit! Doctor Love Is ACCURATE!!!!
Hmmm… Maybe Doctor Love Is Full Of Shit After All…
Heather The Hot: The Results Are In!

Wow! Two Great Posts On One Blog: Blogging And That Dinosaur Viacom

Top 10 Ways to Piss Off Bloggers (Including Me)

This does not apply to me. I decided, thanks to years of stalkers, to make this blog a dictatorship. No Comments. Besides that, I’m not looking to build that thing my throat chokes on when I try to say it: a “community.” Too often, places become polarized between annoying sycophants and sociopathic stalkers, both of whom chase away normal people who might actually have something worthwhile to say. Not here! Nyahahahaha!

Google, YouTube and Viacom – 5 Reasons I Think Viacom is Right And 5 Reasons They Will Fail

Now Viacom is no small company and I am certain that they have been in similar situations, perhaps not to this magnitude though. I think that even though I believe they are in the right, they have a huge chance of failure.

Previously in this blog:
Viacom Shows The World It’s A Company Of Assholes

Reference: WordPress Tips

The Real Ryan J. Parker blog gives a lot of WordPress tips I might want to know about later on.

Blog Time Adjustment

No, this post wasn’t written via time machine.

I’ve just been reminded that I need to manually change the time offset in WordPress to reflect the U.S. Daylight Saving Time change that went into effect this past weekend.

Oy. I thought computers were supposed to relieve us of this drudgery!

Matt?

Thank You, Matt!

Changing the Web at 21

WordPress is one of the most widely used pieces of blogging software on the Net. We use WordPress everyday to spread our ideas and connect with people all around the world, but how many of you actually know who created WordPress?

Type “Matt” into Google and you have your answer. Matt Mullenweg is the #1 most important Matt in the world, according to Google, as well as the founding developer of WordPress. The kicker is that he is only 23 and he released WordPress 2 years ago, when he was 21. Matt was born in Houston, Texas and moved to San Francisco in 2005 to work for CNET Networks.

After quitting his job at CNET in late 2005, he has devoted the majority of his time to developing a number of open source projects and is now a frequent speaker at conferences. In late 2005, he founded Automattic, the business behind WordPress and the spam-catching software we all love, Akismet.

In November of 2005, WordPress stopped being invite only and opened up to the world.

Matt is also the guy behind Ping-O-Matic, the software that pings search engines when a user publishes a new blog post. This has been instrumental in getting all of our blogs indexed by the search engines. It is great too because Google search results have a special love for blogs that the other big name search engines do not appear to match. Ping-O-Matic has helped our blogs reach a much larger audience, thanks to Matt’s work.

I had no bloody idea.

Thanks, Matt!