Last year I made a contention that no matter how much steroids you take, you will not be a better athlete per se. Statistically, it looks like this is the case as well.
A couple weeks ago I also noted that organizations like the World Anti-Doping Agency can try to argue and make anything into an unfair performance enhancer, including shaving heads and legs (what kinds of razor blades can you use to get the cleanest cut?).
And now, guru and professional economist Peter Boettke weighs in; it seems we both have the same conclusions regarding the Juice.
O’Reilly Media has a great quarterly periodicial for anyone that enjoys do-it-yourself projects, it’s called Make.
Today Wired News published a great piece on a do-it-yourself radio scanner that not only grabs FM signals, but also decodes HDTV and even opens garage doors. The technical wizardy was the brain child of a couple amateur guys working in their garages.
That brings up another excellent Wired piece from last month on a mass-tinkering concept called “crowdsourcing” — which I discuss in more depth here.
And lastly, the June issue of Wired magazine discusses some of negative unseen effects caused by State intervention. In “Don’t Try This At Home” we learn about how under the suise of preventing terror, various federal organizations are preventing and even prosecuting tinkerer’s that happen to own chemical compounds and chemistry kits — stifling scientific inquiry and innovation.
Addendum: Regarding the stifling of creativity and innovation, this month’s issue of IEEE Spectrum Online has a great piece on the wasteland that the DMCA has created: Death by DMCA.
You’ve heard of multi-core-modules and system-on-a-chip, SOP is different however. The IEEE Spectrum Online has a good write-up of both lab and practical applications of this new acronym. Singularitarians, beware.
