(Came in a few minutes late) Greg was a firehose, forgive my errors and omissions. DC is like a university with a really massive ROTC program. If the internet is ethernet, congress is token ring. One person speaks at a time, for instance. Once Greg saw more than 10 minutes for a roll call vote--no e...

Java Posse Roundup 2009 Live Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Crested Butte, CO http://www.visitcrestedbutte.com/ Open Space Conferences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology Our little conference http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRound...

Merrill Perlman has doubts. So, she looks things up, does the math, figures things out, finds the focus. Merrill Perelman recently left The New York Times to work as a journalism consultant and freelance editor. Reach her at meperl@gmail.com After spending 25 years at The New York Times, working on ...

Merrill Perlman has doubts. So, she looks things up, does the math, figures things out, finds the focus. Merrill Perelman recently left The New York Times to work as a journalism consultant and freelance editor. Reach her at meperl@gmail.com After spending 25 years at The New York Times, working on ...

Merrill Perlman has doubts. So, she looks things up, does the math, figures things out, finds the focus. Merrill Perelman recently left The New York Times to work as a journalism consultant and freelance editor. Reach her at meperl@gmail.com After spending 25 years at The New York Times, working on ...

Merrill Perlman has doubts. So, she looks things up, does the math, figures things out, finds the focus. Merrill Perelman recently left The New York Times to work as a journalism consultant and freelance editor. Reach her at meperl@gmail.com After spending 25 years at The New York Times, working on ...

Sci-fi author Philip K. Dick may have best anticipated neuroengineering in his most famous work, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the basis of the movie Blade Runner. The main character and his wife get up in the morning and select their moods on what Dick called a Penfield mood organ. We’...

You may have received the Facebook invite already, but if not, I'm very pleased to announce the second Sunday afternoon swap meet at the Biltmore. This time around, personal and Pitchfork faves, Japandroids are playing, in addition to a fresh-from-their-cd-release-party Adjective, the always great T...

This is the second of two parts on the convergence of engineering and neuroscience. Part One, "Rewiring the Brain," examined attempts to control the brain using surgically implanted optical switches. Sci-Fi author Philip K. Dick may have best anticipated neuroengineering in his most famous work, Do ...

Really quick, with more to come tomorrow: I caught This Frontier Needs Heroes on Thursday at Little Mountain. Honestly, I only checked out the show because my friend Katie was putting it on (she was roomates with Jessica Lauretti from the band when she lived in NYC), but I was really pleasantly surp...