Author: buridan

fluffy destroyer of worlds

Getting all cute and sexy again: Election day is drawing to a close, so this blog is returning to its regular schedule of unrepentent perversion, news of the wild and strange, the usual assortment of nerdy scientific studies, and the occasional puppy or kitten photo to make you go AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. I’m sure I’ll have many […]

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Predictable Astonishment

Predictable Astonishment: Like probably all of the World, I watched the election results tonight. And the more I watched, the more I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I still can’t. Intellectually, I fully expected it to be too close to call tonight. But emotionally I guess I was holding onto the hope that sanity […]

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In other news… | Metafilter

In other news… | Metafilter: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/36699 While you were re-electing a president: Senator-elect Jim DeMint: Thinks that unwed pregnant women and gays are unfit to be schoolteachers. Senator-elect Tom Coburn: Wants the death penalty for abortion doctors. Senator-elect John Thune: Mr. School Prayer Amendment. —— sweet isn’t it…. these aren’t the type of people i […]

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In other news… | Metafilter

In other news… | Metafilter: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/36699 While you were re-electing a president: Senator-elect Jim DeMint: Thinks that unwed pregnant women and gays are unfit to be schoolteachers. Senator-elect Tom Coburn: Wants the death penalty for abortion doctors. Senator-elect John Thune: Mr. School Prayer Amendment. —— sweet isn’t it…. these aren’t the type of people i […]

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HRL – The Humanoid Robotics Laboratory – The Bar Bot – Content

HRL – The Humanoid Robotics Laboratory – The Bar Bot – Content: http://www.roboticslab.org/html/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2 finally a useful robot.

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Subtle submissions

Subtle submissions: The Subtle Technologies Festival will take place May 26-May 29, 2005, in Toronto Canada. Symposium submissions are due January 15th, 2005. This year, in addition to the usual diverse program, there is a special session celebrating the “World Year in Physics”; artists and scientists who investigate physics in their work … —– sounds […]

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Candidate Kerry

Candidate Kerry: [See also comments here.] ~He’s ready, he’s willing, who knows if he’s able?… not knowing that he is able…. is better than knowing that he is not, which is where my opinion lies on bush, not able to be president in any real sense and generally defers to the guidance of warmongers and […]

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The Personal Internet Communicator for Developing Economies

The Personal Internet Communicator for Developing Economies: 50×15 is AMD‘s initiative to enable affordable Internet access and computing capabilities for 50 percent of the world population by the year 2015. With world population estimated to reach 7.2 billion people in 2015, and current Internet penetration approximately 10 percent, there is tremendous potential for 50×15 on […]

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Electoral geek supreme . Electoral-vote.com’s anonymous tallier…

Electoral geek supreme . Electoral-vote.com’s anonymous tallier…:Electoral geek supreme. Electoral-vote.com’s anonymous tallier outs himself as a pioneer of open-source operating systems. [Salon.com] —— off he goes.

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Electoral geek supreme . Electoral-vote.com's anonymous tallier…

Electoral geek supreme . Electoral-vote.com’s anonymous tallier…:Electoral geek supreme. Electoral-vote.com’s anonymous tallier outs himself as a pioneer of open-source operating systems. [Salon.com] —— off he goes.

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