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Balance your media diet

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Agh! Media is taking over the world! Here’s how to control your intake, and what quantities are optimal. Take with a big grain of salt, just like you would with every other FDA diet recommendation.

via Wired

AT&T Sucks

Monday, July 13th, 2009

AT&T has gotten a pretty bad reputation recently. While Verizon is being touted as the fastest and most reliable network, AT&T has desperately been advertising to try and regain some favor. “More bars in more places” and “the fastest 3G network” are taglines that AT&T uses, but really? That would be a better description of [...]

Guide to smart phones

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Is your wireless contract expiring soon? Confused about what new smart phone you want to buy this summer? Wired puts together a very simple guide to smart phones. Check it out.

Pirate Bay Internet Anonymity Service Launches

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Many of you probably have heard of the Pirate Bay trial in Stockholm, Sweden, where the record and movie industries are up face-to-face against the developers of the Pirate Bay, a tracking service that indexes torrents, claiming that the Pirate Bay is a facilitator copyright infringement and is liable to millions in damages. A panel [...]

Artificial Intelligence…where are the limits?

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Isaac Asimov in his iconic novel I, Robot depicted a world where humans had rendered themselves obsolete by designing intelligent robots that could more effectively and efficiently govern the world. An Article on Wired seems to have made a splash on this front, describing a computer program that derived Newton’s law of motion from scratch.
The [...]

Where else but Japan? Underground bike storage

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

You know that scene in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift when Sean’s new friend pulls out his monstrous Hulk-green car from a high tech rotating car-park tower? (If you haven’t seen the movie, you’re not missing much.) I thought that was utter nonsense. Something like that surely couldn’t exist.
Now I think differently, very [...]

Scott Brown’s Vision of the Most Awesome Depression Ever

Monday, January 12th, 2009

With a new administration soon to take office, everyone has their fingers crossed that this fine country of do-it-yourselfers will be able to pull back on the yoke to bring this economy back to a cruising altitude. But what if we can’t? What if we are to descend into yet another depression? [...]

Stocks of Bonds

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

With the theatrical release of Quantum of Solace, it seems that every blog and its mother is doing articles about entitled “Top 10 Bond .”
Well here at Ology, we like to do things a bit different. I am now proud to present Jonnie Law’s Top 10 Top 10 Bond Shit:
#10: About’s Top 10 Bond Girls
Though [...]

Pocket Prez

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

courtesy of Alexis Madrigal at Wired
Normally John Hart, a mechanical engineer at the University of Michigan, works on progressing the science of nanomaterials, specifically in the field of electronics.  But, in light of todays election, he decided to have some fun.  Using the portrait by Stephen Ferry as a model, Hart and his cronies create miniature [...]

Some “Maiali” You Can’t Help But Envy

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Just checked out this article by Chuck Squatriglia at Wired. It seems the “Ragazzi in Azzurro” are going to be putting our super squad cars to shame.
Earlier today, Lamborghini handed over the keys to a Gallardo LP560 “Polizia” model to the head of the Italian State Police, Antonio Manganelli. The car not only [...]