September 2002

Vice Fund is a mutual fund investing in vices. Tobacco companies, casinos, etc. I do hope it’s not a hoax. Such a nice idea…

An interesting application of genetic programming. Two people at the University of Sussex wrote this genetic program to make a circuit produce sound. The circuit became a radio instead.

Programmers: learn from this. Laymen want documentation they understand. (Wish someone told me 5 years ago.)

Beautiful backrounds with a bar-code theme. In Russian. But the pictures make sense. And yes, there’s an English version.

I’m trying Mozilla. It has native SOAP support. So I can make a web page that has dynamic Google searches (and Amazon booklists, etc) without a web-server.

Good summary of superconductivity at kuro5hin.

I’ve seen the Economic Times server have lots of problems. But this is a new one on me. (Didn’t last long, though…)

Google toolbar: experimental features.