We can't stop the progress. Here comes another brilliant and passionate way of wasting time and money: gigapans.

Floating-point arithmetics on traditional computers and the associated issues: this is basic knowledge for all programmers and computer scientists (or should). Still, gotta love the Internet for offering nice and clean ressources for easy perusing for new trainees (like highschool kids and new enthusiasts). And also having heavy reading and rigurous scientific detailing for the strong-hearted. How did we do education before the time of the Internet?

I happened tonight to browse the cable TV listing and find on Bravo the "Musical Brain" documentary created by Christina Pochmursky for CTV and featuring Sting, Feist, Wyclef Jean and Daniel Levitin. Levitin is a McGill professor of neuroscience that became a neuroscientist so that he can understand why we do music at all. The documentary is absolutely fascinating, even if a bit light. Levitin also worked recently on a new development, with Bobby McFerrin, called "The Music Instinct" -- that I crave to find and see. He wrote two very well known books on the same topics, "This is your brain on music" being a bestseller. Looking for more information on these, I found "Notes and Neurons", a rather long panel at the the World Science Festival last year. Very interesting topic, very interesting speakers.

Patented Genes, a very well done report on CBS's <i>60 minutes</i>, explains all the absurdity of this situation, very clearly. I'd feel ashamed of being human, if I'd manage to overcome my shock at this kind of appaling non-human — no, anti-human — behavior.