Better traffic lights?

Suitable retro look and feel, tells you how long you have to wait, clearly comprehended. It would be like driving on the left – it would never happen.

Malarians

Sadly it is a Conan O´Brien gag rather than a real Bushism: Today, at the White House, President Bush signed a proclamation declaring this Malaria Awareness Week. There was an awkward moment when, during the ceremony, Bush said, "This is a great day for all...

Authorisation, not security

Interesting question: why do we accept faxed (and therefore easily fakable) signatures? Answer: because it is still hard to do any real damage / commit real fraud using them.

How to present science

While the conclusions are all correct (no link between autism and MMR in this study), the way of presenting it isn´t. How do we explain why issues like confounding are important, and why you can´t just take a papers figures and fiddle with them – you...

Friendfeed

Friendfeed seems to be a reasonable attempt at pulling together a gazillion social networking sites in one place. Typically, I can´t be bothered to use it

SuperDuper

SuperDuper is a nice looking backup tool for the Mac. I´m not sure I trust Time Machine, and it runs too often for me, as I don´t use the Mac for day-to-day work.