Comment Complex or Complicated? (Score 1) 256
It seems like what he is saying is more that it is too complicated, rather than too complex. Complexity - in terms of many interacting agents, the difficulty of predicting emergent behaviors, and the ability to spontaneously form new structures - seems to be the key feature that made the web successful.
Comment 404 on Link (Score 1) 509
Anyone else getting a 404 "feed not found" page back from feeds.wired.com?
Feed Maggots Rid Patients Of Antibiotic-resistant Infection, MRSA (sciencedaily.com)
Medical researchers are ridding diabetic patients of the superbug MRSA -- by treating their foot ulcers with maggots. The scientists used green bottle fly larvae to treat 13 diabetic patients whose foot ulcers were contaminated with MRSA and found all but one were cured within a mean period of three weeks, much quicker than the 28-week duration for the conventional treatment.
Building the Interplanetary Internet 334
sighted writes "Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, now a Google VP, is leading a NASA effort to create a permanent network link to Mars within the next two years. As Cerf outlined in a recent talk, the 'InterPlaNet' protocol is designed to handle the delay caused by interplanetary distances. A signal traveling between the Earth and Mars can take up to 20 minutes."
