Archive for October, 2009
“Funny how people only cite karma when bad things happen to people they don’…
Thursday, October 29th, 2009via kung fu grippe on 10/28/09
“Funny how people only cite karma when bad things happen to people they don’t like.”
–Reminds me of Anne Lamott:
“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
Dropped by thonk.
Monday, October 12th, 2009
la vida es una tombola
Monday, October 12th, 2009
We’re just a couple of dudes hanging around our underwear
Monday, October 12th, 2009
Carl Sagan Auto-Tune (feat. Stephen Hawking)
Friday, October 9th, 2009I still can’t get over how much he sounds like Agent Smith from The Matrix
via kottke.org by Jason Kottke on 10/8/09
Maybe you’re tired of un-pop-music-like things being run through Auto-Tune, but I’m not quite there yet. This Auto-Tuned Carl Sagan mix is very nearly sublime.
Tags: Auto-Tune Carl Sagan music remix Stephen Hawking video
Go Canes!
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Radio-Controlled Cyborg Beetles Become Reality
Friday, October 2nd, 2009Who wants to go halfsies with me on a doom fortress?
via Slashdot by timothy on 10/1/09holy_calamity writes "DARPA's plans to create brain chips for insects so they can be steered like an RC plane are bearing fruit. Videos show that a team at Berkeley can use radio signals to tell palm-sized African beetles to take off and land, and to lose altitude and steer left or right when in flight. They had to use the less-than-inconspicuous giant beetles because other species are too weak to take off with the weight of the necessary antenna and brain and muscle electrodes."
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009I never sympathized with people who claimed email overload until I became one of them.
