August 2009
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take this pill…you are now interfaced with internets welcome to the future :)
one_neuron_two_neuron writes “Researchers at Harvard have taken a new look at how electricity can make…
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sometimes i love me some anderson cooper
When you make Paris Hilton look smart and necessary then you know you have found the bottom rung of the celebrity ladder, Heidi Montag. I am…
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…i really hate murdoch
Hugh Pickens writes “News Corporation’s James Murdoch says that a ‘dominant’ BBC threatens independent journalism in the UK and that free news on the web…
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In Scientific American, Paul W. Andrews and J. Anderson Thomson, Jr. sum up a paper they’ve recently published in Psychological Review that argues for depression as a pro-survival adaptation that…
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Here is Alan Moore’s tribute to bOING bOING patron saint Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007), delivered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in March 2007. (Thanks, Chris Arkenberg!)
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thejus sez:
cuddly automatons? just makes it more terrifying when they crave your sweet human flesh.
The truth about the oft-mentioned, inevitable robot takeover is that it will probably…
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blind with fury
OMFG. So, over at Dangerous Minds, Richard Metzger has a very scary/funny post about an extreme right-wing African-American media personality many are…
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I am held together by peanut butter and snarky comments.
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things this video made me think of: false attribution of emotions to other species and how that would play out with alien life/future metaspecies, how humans will respond to…
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ap·o·plex·y (p-plks) n. 1. Sudden impairment of neurological function, especially that resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage; a stroke. 2. A sudden effusion of blood into an organ or…
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LOOK…he has a hat! http://samuraifrog.tumblr.com/
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One hunnert nazi scalps. And i WANT mah scalps!
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If you like Guitar Hero and had some long hair in the 80’s that you are missing this game is for you. Tiago Martins, Ricardo Nascimento and Andreas Zingerle have been working…
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radical feminism’s natural result?
A strain of bacteria that is harboured by insects kills male embryos - and itself - in “adaptive suicide”, a study finds.
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Just finished “The Raw Shark Texts” by Steven Hall. Pretty good.
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Art: STACMASTER-S. Get the T-Shirt.
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Wired’s Steve Silberman explores the fascinating and increasingly important placebo effect, which appears to be getting stronger:
The upshot is fewer new medicines available to ailing patients and…
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global warming means the worries of the southern hemisphere will become those of the northern hemisphere ex: man sized tarantulas and plants that dissolve flesh with their pollen.
A…
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Wired’s Steve Silberman explores the fascinating and increasingly important placebo effect, which appears to be getting stronger:
The upshot is fewer new medicines available to ailing patients and…
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Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory have developed a robotic arm and sensor system that is capable of performing some amazing sleight of hand tricks. Using a…
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i love the future
GyroMagician sez, “After Kingsnorth and the G20 climate change protests in the UK (and subsequent police violence), the police are trying to present…
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Evil Mad Scientist Labs outdoes itself with a project to induce gigantism in plant-life using Gibberellic acid, which induces “frankly absurd growth” in many plants.
For the control sample…
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Brianna Wu’s latest art project is the cover art for the magazine “Crossed Genres.” Frank Wu explains, “Brianna went to University of Mississippi, where a famous race riot took place - thus…
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Just realiyed that Daughtrey is considered a rock star. Stoked 2 not b involved in mainstream rock.
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Michael Erard’s “A Short Manifesto on the Future of Attention” reiterates Herbert Simon’s 1971 prediction of an attention shortage: “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the…
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Michael Erard’s “A Short Manifesto on the Future of Attention” reiterates Herbert Simon’s 1971 prediction of an attention shortage: “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the…
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Brianna Wu’s latest art project is the cover art for the magazine “Crossed Genres.” Frank Wu explains, “Brianna went to University of Mississippi, where a famous race riot took place - thus…
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seriously?! how cool is that!!
Evil Mad Scientist Labs outdoes itself with a project to induce gigantism in plant-life using Gibberellic acid, which induces “frankly absurd growth” in…
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I hate it here i hate it here i hate it here i hate it here
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Our friends at GOOD Magazine have posted a neat item here — Curt Smith, best known as co-founder of the band Tears for Fears, but now an independent, solo artist with a new set…
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Our friends at GOOD Magazine have posted a neat item here — Curt Smith, best known as co-founder of the band Tears for Fears, but now an independent, solo artist with a new set…
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i cannot even begin to describe how happy this makes me
Federal Court Judge Leonard Davis is upholding a patent infringement claim by Canadian company i4i, which contends that…
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Opening tomorrow night at Seattle’s own Roq la Rue is Travis Louie’s solo show Portrait of a young Artist as a Monster. The show consists of eight larger scale works. Kirsten…
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Beloit College’s annual “Mindset List” is a list of truisms about the historical context of the incoming freshman class — all the things that have existed “forever” for them and all the things they…
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Nina Paley, creator of the wonderful and copyright-fraught animation Sita Sings the Blues writes, “All the Flash authoring (.fla) files I used to make Sita Sings the Blues have just been…