I've been tracking 23andme.com and a few other personal genomics sites for a while, and the only thing that has been holding me back has been the price. It used to be $1000 just a short while ago, but 23andme.com just dropped their price to $399, and increased the value of the service. A couple [...]

I'd like to recommend Stephen Pinker's TED talk "A Brief History of Violence".

Check it out.

There has been a lot of talk about the new Seinfeld/Bill Gates ads, and most of what I've seen has been "What? What is this about? These ads are crappy".

Personally, I like them. They have smartly realized that the need to do something that is orthogonal to Apples "I'm a Mac" ads, because any attempt [...]

Me and Anna have decided to take a stab at this parenting thing that seems to be all the rave these days.

Anna is pregnant and we're slated to become parents on the 21st of March 2009, incidentally the 209th anniversary of Pius the 7th being crowned Pope in Venice with a papal tiara made of [...]