Since you are so bright, you probably have at least two you can articulate. Send me two laws based on your empirical work and observations you would not mind having tagged with your name. Stick to science and to those scientific areas where you have expertise. Avoid flippancy. Remember, your name will be attached to your law.

I don't have a law, but the typically edge.org collection of the smartest people on the planet is here and they've all got one. Many are fairly enlightening. I feel sooo uncool...

OK, here is a shot:

Given a set of similar products, the one which is least technologically sophisticated will be the most successful in the marketplace.

What's Your Law?

check the "other news" blurb at the bottom of the page:

"The Congressional bonehead award goes to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who, on a visit to JPL, asked if Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong! Quipped Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) to the Washington Times: "We just don't teach enough science." Worse, Jackson Lee, who represents Houston, is a member of the House Science Committee's space subcommittee. Perhaps some committee reassignments are in order..."

Congressional Bonehead Award

] A Japanese company by the unfortunate name of tmsuk has
] just announced the world's largest robot capable of
] carrying a person - the 3.5m tall, 5 ton T52 Enryu
] HyperRescueRobot.

Check out the pic!

Slashdot | Your Own Mecha

] When you use Weed's software to buy a Weed file and then
] share the file with someone else who buys it, you'll earn
] a payment based on the sale price.
]
] 20% of the sale price goes to you, 10% of the price goes
] to the person who shared the file with you, and 5% goes
] to the person who shared the file with that person.
]
] 50% of every sale always goes to the artist or publisher
] who owns the song. The remaining 15% goes to Weed.

This is interesting. Nice things about this:
1. You get to try everything before you buy it. Its always free once. That is much better then itunes. I don't always know if I really want to buy a song. Once I've grabbed it off the warez network there is no longer a reason to buy it as a file.

2. You are financially incented to re-recommend songs to friends.

It is unfortunate that this is a Windows only.

Of course, somewhere in middle America some stupid adult is going to end up throwing a fit because there are kids dealing weed.

Weed

Most cool family tree of electronic (dance) music. Includes sound clips representative of each genre. This is a neat way to explore. You'll find new stuff you didn't know about that you like. Now, can someone please do this for "industrial" so I can at least understand how the genres break down?!

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic (Dance) Music

So what to do?

This is a good article. I think this view is correct.

War of Ideas, Part 1

Hit Altavista at random to widen a search. They've got an interesting new feature. Search results are clustered by topic.

AltaVista Search: memestreams

New Life Lodge
Alumni Association
P.O. Box 430
Burns, TN 37029

To Whom It May Concern,

Please accept this donation offered in memory of our friend Brad Blines. Brad was a part of our online community, called MemeStreams. One of the features of this community is that it tracks the popularity of the posts members make to it. Out of some 800 members, there are only three people in the community who have a higher popularity score then Brad, and they are the people who created the software the community runs on. This fact should illustrate the significant impact that Brad has had on our lives. We owe many smiles and laughs to his posts and comments over the past year. His presence will be missed by all of us.

Sincerely,
Tom & Marie Cross

From Flyn23:

It is with an extraordinarily heavy heart that I post that my good friend, Brad Blines, died on Thursday morning of a heroin overdose. Folks on memestreams will know him as crankymessiah. People from the 'scene' in Nashville will remember him from the days of Dragon Park, countless concerts and shows, and Predators games.

Brad was one of the lights of my life. We shared the same giddy excitement over music, film, and creativity that few people can understand. We had that kind of brotherly relationship where you don't really have to say anything to hear the other person. I hope that I will be able to still hear his infectious laugh in my head for the rest of my life.

Goodbye my friend.

Brad Michael BLINES
Nashville, TN
Age 35
January 8, 2003
January 8, 2003. Survived by parents, Michael and Diana Blines; sister, Kristin (Richard) Vik; grandmothers, Bonnie (Lloyd) Holt, Ruth Allen; nephews, Ethan Richard Vik, Brennan Michael Vik. The funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. at Harpeth Hills Funeral Home with Bro. Doug Varnado officiating. Pallbearers will be Chris Scheele, Richard Vik, Michael Dodson, Rich Husband, Jim Folger, Ernie Simon. The Interment will follow at Harpeth Hills Memory Gardens. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the New Life Lodge. Visitation will be Friday 5-9 p.m. and Saturday 1 p.m. until service at HARPETH HILLS FUNERAL HOME, 9090 Hwy. 100, 615-646-9292

I am sad, and unhappy...

Rather funny.. :) All of this is accurate. The "isn't kind of like boxing with your computer" line is perfect. He is, um, just a bit too stressed out though....

Crash Different