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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
Category: Technology
In early 2009, a bunch of folks at UCSB took over the Torpig botnet for ten days. In that time, they observed more that 180,000 infections and recorded over 70G of data that the botnet captured. During that time, over...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:57 AM • 2 Comments •
OK, quick question! As regular reader will know, I have migrated to a Mac. I have tons of presentations in Powerpoint which, while written on a PC, open seamlessly on the new machine. However, when I open them in Keynote,...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:33 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Books
Janet has some extensive thoughts about the shenanigans over at Amazon.com. Do wander over and have a read. Suffice it to say, I agree with her and will be withholding any business until all of this has been cleared up...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:35 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Technology
I've been using my Macbook for two week now and am very comfortable with it. While I'd never become a rabid Apple fanboi, this comment by Microsoft's Steve Ballmer strikes me a simply assinine: "Apple gained about one point, but...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:14 PM • 9 Comments •
It's Day 5 of my transition to using OS X and all is well. Once I got used to the different ways of doing things, things have been running remarkably smoothly. The trackpad on the Macbook has taken a bit...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:43 AM • 12 Comments •
Category: Technology
A few days back I asked my loyal readers for their opinions on the Macbook Pro (thanks to all who commented). In the end, I went with the Macbook and have been spending the afternoon adjusting to things. Everything is...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:31 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
So I set up a Twitter account but don’t really know what it is useful for (if anything). Feel free to follow if you want. More importantly, comment here and let me know what Twitter is useful for....
Posted by John Lynch at 1:38 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
So I’m contemplating getting a Macbook Pro and thus leaving my current main machine (an XP laptop … which I have been very happy with, by the way). I’m specifically looking at the 17 inch model, particularly because of the...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:20 PM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
A scientist, testing a formula on Univac recently, was amazed to see the computing system stop, then automatically type the reproof: “You’re trying to divide by zero.” A quick check proved that Univac, as always, was right. Click to...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:53 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science Education
Sheril has just announced that Barak Obama has answered fourteen questions posed by the Science Debate 2008 team. I haven't had a chance to read his responses yet, so wander on over yourself to see what he has to say....
Posted by John Lynch at 4:07 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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