2010-05-28
post/640836617
quote 15:19:26
“ So, the BBC should never have run with the story since it was sensationalist bollocks. ”
John Graham-Cumming: Inside the RFID ‘virus’ that ‘infected a man’ (via iamdanw).
I don’t know if anyone else has noted that Dr Gasson is a colleague of, and co-author of papers with, Kevin Warwick. For those of you a bit younger than I am, Professor Warwick got an awful lot of publicity about ten years ago from some fairly dubious “science”, backed up by the sadly typical over-credulous reporting the BBC also showed this week.
Of course, NTK did a good job of keeping an eye on him, but a nice summary of his career is available at The Register’s Life In Pictures feature. It’ll be a while until Dr Gasson achieves such heights, but he’s started pretty well…
2010-02-04
post/370381367
photo 10:37:50
revdancatt on the technology behind the new Guardian Zeitgeist (see also).
