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June 02, 2010
May 30, 2010
The Mind/body problem.
Or how to make incorporate your nerdiness in who you physically are.
May 27, 2010
Search facebook updates.
Three SF engineers wrote a search front end to dramatize some of the April 21st privacy changes. Reload the page for random searches.
Gorgonocephaus
(aka Basket Star) is a Gorgon's head in a basket somehow. Links to Star Wars too.
May 26, 2010
May 25, 2010
May 24, 2010
Israel's strategic ambiguity
around nuclear weapons under pressure. Apparently it negotiated to sell nuclear armed missiles to South Africa in 1975, though the Israeli president (his signature is on the documents in his then capacity as Defence Minister) denies the interpretation.
A Caspian sea monster 310 feet long and weighing up to 540 tons
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One amazing machine...
with rockets!
And it's just not big enough.
Scroll down for lots of incredible pictures.
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May 23, 2010
KUNG-FU BEAR!!
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This Kung-Fu bear will destroy all your muggers AND your ninjas.
Amazing SLYT footage of an agile bear in the Hiroshima zoo!
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May 20, 2010
Ninjas foil mugging!
No, really...''There was the policemen and there was the ninjas,'' he said. ''It was not something that I would expect.''
May 17, 2010
May 16, 2010
Fungus and Frogs
are the subject of an upcoming television special... It seems that a frog killing fungus has gotten so bad that infected frogs might need diluted Clorox bleach for deep cleaning. (Note that a previous post reported the suggested use of yet more anitibiotics to fight this fungus.) But as usual and especially also, habitat destruction with chemical and pesticide run-off into the streams needs to be curtailed if we are to hear the piping and croaking that is such a bloved part of a beautiful summer's day.
May 14, 2010
A good retro interface is worth a whole bunch of links.
Some of these click-ons are still in development, so I'll prob'ly revisit this site. Here's more on hats. And another. And then there's Mr. Monkey's hat selections (previously). Question is, should I wear my Fidel style hat anyway? Sergei Khrushchev laughed at that one when he signed his book on Nikita at a lecture on the Cuban Missile Crisis, although it turned out his father really didn't much like Fidel...
May 13, 2010
Sally Cruikshank
I saw at her 1982 presentation of Quasi at MoMA in NYC. She was always the BEST, but when she actually walked through the exhibit of Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion models, I fained interest in THAT body of work for some reason...
May 12, 2010
The US senate has voted to audit the Fed
- a previously impenetrable, secretive and unnaturally powerful pseudo governmental corpus. When the winding cloth lies stripped from its shrouded balance sheet, what kind of hell storm shall rise from the abyss? After all, it was Chairman Bernanke who indicated that his machinations require secrecy.
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