Sun's Looking Glass
Sun's experimenting with a new desktop interface for Solaris and Linux, written in Java. The interface is supposedly a 3D desktop, with features such as translucent windows, sticky notes, more use of visual cues, and more. While this bodes well for Linux on the desktop, I doubt it carries much weight in the Solaris world, that's slowly dying on the desktop -- still, it seems like a bit of catch up to Apple and Microsoft. Oh well ... maybe Sun will invent something new.
The first chef
First came fire ... and then, as the camera shifts to the soon to be late-village idiot, you're left wondering -- just what was going through that mind -- and food is put on the fire, for the first time, and cooking is accidentally discovered by humanity. The first chef is ridiculed by grunts, then the local thug tries a sample of the burnt carcass, and soon, everybody gets queued at the McDonalds drive-thru. What happened? Richard Wrangham of Harvard believes there's more to cooking than evolutionary history would have you believe. Wrangham points out that there is no way homo sapiens could survive on just raw food. Raw food just doesn't give up calories as easily as cooked food -- and raw food makes the digestive system expend more energy to get at those calories. Cooking on the other hand breaks complex molecules down, allowing the digestive system to make easy work of them -- and cooking also softens food, allowing the body to get to the calories with less effort...
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