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Sadly, No! » More Proof Of The Liberal Math Conspiracy |
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5:35 pm EDT, Aug 21, 2007 |
Curt at Flopping Aces has had it with the pointy-headed interlecturals what is pollutin’ ackademia wif liberalizm: More Evidence of Liberal Bias in Our Schools and Media Now is it any wonder the youth in this country are so totally lacking in common sense? Look at the top academia donations given so far for the 2008 election:
Yes, this chart of “the top ten educational donors” certainly suggests that “the top ten educational donors” favor Democrats over Republicans. (It’s possible that a high level of education correlates with a high level of not being a gullible maroon.)
Sadly, No! » More Proof Of The Liberal Math Conspiracy |
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Exploration, Vanderbilt's Online Science Journal - New prosthetic arm is powered by miniature rocket motor |
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11:00 am EDT, Aug 21, 2007 |
It was the poor power-to-weight ratio of batteries that drove Goldfarb to look for alternatives in 2000 while he was working on a previous exoskeleton project for DARPA. ... Goldfarb’s power source is about the size of a pencil and contains a special catalyst that causes hydrogen peroxide to burn. When this compound burns, it produces pure steam. The steam is used to open and close a series of valves. The valves are connected to the spring-loaded joints of the prosthesis by belts made of a special monofilament used in appliance handles and aircraft parts. A small sealed canister of hydrogen peroxide that easily fits in the upper arm can provide enough energy to power the device for 18 hours of normal activity. Awesome... not sure how commercially viable, given the manufacturing tolerances required and so forth, but extremely cool nonetheless... Go Vandy! Exploration, Vanderbilt's Online Science Journal - New prosthetic arm is powered by miniature rocket motor |
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TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video) |
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12:48 am EDT, Aug 21, 2007 |
Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.
This is fucking astounding. We're not that far from pervasive social construction of reality. TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video) |
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Poster for the new Star Trek film... |
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9:41 pm EDT, Aug 20, 2007 |
If they kept it real, they'd have used "STARDATE -315980.87" Poster for the new Star Trek film... |
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On Clinton and lobbyists (Lessig Blog) |
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12:19 pm EDT, Aug 20, 2007 |
This is the (extraordinarily obvious) point the Wall Street Journal missed when it chimed in yesterday in support of the Senator. As the Journal wrote: Her answer was met with jeers, but what Mrs. Clinton was daring to tell her left-wing audience is that lobbyists are an essential means by which average Americans transmit their political concerns to Washington, and in turn hold their elected Representatives accountable. Not everyone in America can afford to trek to D.C., or has the clout to demand an audience with a Senator. Lobbyists represent the collective voice of groups with shared ideals, whether they be gun owners, union workers, corporate employees or the pro-choice movement. Just the sort of reasoning that makes that page so famous: Look, lawyers represent their clients before a judge. Does it follow from that that judges must be free to take money from lawyers? Even just to redecorate their office?
On Clinton and lobbyists (Lessig Blog) |
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10:23 pm EDT, Aug 17, 2007 |
As always, so apropos of my life... xkcd - Compiling |
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8:52 pm EDT, Aug 17, 2007 |
Welcome to the Atlanta cupcake factory! We bake homemade cupcakes so you don't have to. And we deliver! You can now find our cupcakes regularly at Metro Fresh in the Midtown Promenade.
Why the FUCK didn't I know about this? I friggin love cupcakes. WTF!? -k Atlanta Cupcake Factory |
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Boing Boing: Because of one faulty NIC, 17,000 were stranded at LAX |
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1:32 pm EDT, Aug 15, 2007 |
The U.S. Customs computer outage that left nearly 20,000 international flyers stranded on the tarmac for hours last weekend? That whole sprawling mess -- so bad, some people got sick and had to be taken to the hospital -- was caused by a single screwy network interface card on one single desktop computer in LAX international terminal.
Behold the Infocapalypse. Does anyone think we might want to spend some time making sure that that A BAD NETWORK CARD can't crash a large mission critical infrastructure? Ugh. Boing Boing: Because of one faulty NIC, 17,000 were stranded at LAX |
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2:28 pm EDT, Aug 9, 2007 |
Awesome! Just when you thought they'd "LOL'd" everything they could & u can has it all perfect. lolnin |
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A Special Way of Being Afraid: David Simon Doesn't Care for Your Lawn Furniture |
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11:20 pm EDT, Aug 8, 2007 |
DAVID SIMON: My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: f*** the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden. F*** him. F*** him to hell.
Awesome! Yes! A Special Way of Being Afraid: David Simon Doesn't Care for Your Lawn Furniture |
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