Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Anagram Maker. Manager karma.

- Bill Belichick's Coach broadcast Episode 2: A look at the NFL week 2 line-up

- The attacks in the Red Sea have a pattern. Houthis delenda est.

- The long road to fiber optics.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Will the ACC hold together or fall apart? Not sure about you but I really don't want any more realignment. And I think performance based compensation is fine.

- The difference between chlorophyl and hemoglobin.

- Crew from ship that destroyed Baltimore bridge still aren't allowed to leave the ship.

- Interesting: the Broadband van life

New Optical Switch Could Lead to Ultrafast All-Optical Signal Processing

"Engineers at Caltech have developed a switch - one of the most fundamental components of computing - using optical, rather than electronic, components. The development could aid efforts to achieve ultrafast all-optical signal processing and computing."

So now we have optical transport (fiber optic cable) and optical switching. All that's left is optical data processing and optical data storage.

The cynic in me can't help but think that all this ultrafast computing will be used for is for stock-trading and porn. 

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Could malaria be close to being eliminated? This could have a huge impact on developing nations.

- Good for Bill Burr! File this under when good things happen to good people (who work hard).

- Douglas Adams (RIP) discusses the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

- And speaking of aliens - scientists detect more mysterious radio signals from distant galaxy. And by distant we're talking 3 BILLION light years away. So pump the brakes in the aliens talk. Even if it was from an intelligent source chances are by now something has happened to that civilization.

- Dr Charles Kao, Nobel laureate who revolutionized fiber optics, dies at 84. The modern world owes Dr. Kao tremendous gratitude for his work.

- Interesting - Vladimir Putin's hand picked candidates losing to candidates linked to a party with supposed connections to the mafia? Or are Putin's candidates losing because Russians want to send him a message about his planned pension reforms?

- Fake Gatorade? Who knew?