You may recall hearing about the SETI@Home volunteer computing project back in 1999.

The idea was to collect a metric fuckton of data from the Arecibo radio telescope, split the raw data into digestible chunks, then farm the chunks out to thousands of volunteers, letting their home computers sift through the data looking for potential signals from ( Read more... )

Back in December, one of the teachers at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center sent me an email, inquiring whether I would be willing to volunteer to periodically read the announcements before their Wednesday evening dhamma talks.

This was ironic and fitting, after something ( Read more... )