March 2010
41 posts
“If the process seems flimsy, keep in mind that the real product is not synfuel...”
– The Great Energy Scam - TIME
“Nobody uses the word “cyber” anymore, except people trying to scare you and...”
– Check the Hype — There’s No Such Thing As ‘Cyber’ | Threat Level | Wired.com
“It also would create guidelines for voluntary implantation and require that only...”
– Georgia Senate opposes forcing microchips into people | ajc.com
“Count the number of laborers in your farms [probably cells] at the...”
– Inside Al-Qaeda’s Hard Drive - Magazine - The Atlantic
“bright, rich, personal, slow and under construction”
– Olia Lialina. A Vernacular web. Indigenous and Barbarians.
“Paramount, like most Hollywood studios, did not create a preservation program —...”
– American Cinematographer: Post Focus:
“But these Maoists and Maoist Gonds don’t pay much attention to things like state...”
– Arundhati Roy, Walking With The Comrades. (via spaceant who adds: “Written like an architect.”)
“Once you’ve got the anecdote, you can throw away the data.”
– Tim Harford — Article — How social science ends up as urban myth
“Perhaps the most amusing aspect of the Army’s report was its speculation that...”
– Army Sees Document Web Site as a Potential Threat - NYTimes.com
“It’s only a prototype, but the potential to change my life is massive.”
– Blind soldier uses tongue device to ‘see’ | Society | The Guardian
“Puppetry is the original brain-machine interface. It entertains because it shows...”
– Wired 9.08: The Next Brainiacs
“Probably most frustrating to the FBI is that the top scam for which the agency...”
– Losses from Internet crime more than doubled in 2009
“It’s quite likely that we don’t know and we’ll never know what...”
– Orthorexia Inventor On Diet And Health - orthorexia - Jezebel
“Walkable urbanism is illegal in most of the county.”
– Matthew Yglesias » Centrally Planned Suburbia
“If you have a pony tail let it go out the back of your helmet so people can see...”
– Letting Women Reach Women in Afghan War - NYTimes.com
“One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we...”
– William Gibson (via teradome)
“Where do all these cars park? How many pairs of pants does everybody own? The...”
– Islands in the stream of consciousness - EYE WEEKLY
“If a person doesn’t do anything wrong, they won’t be human-flesh-searched.”
– Human-flesh Search Engines in China - NYTimes.com
“The device empowers plants to control the fate of others using sensors and...”
– Natural Deselection | Tim Simpson
“I’m cool about Canadians, teachers and even unions, but thinking they can...”
– Stunned and hurt Baffler guy figures out that Swedish pirates aren’t Canadian Marxists | Beyond The Beyond
“WoW doesn’t resemble a film. It resembles, rather, a medieval cathedral.”
– The World of Warcraft video game is every bit as glorious as Chartres cathedral | Sam Leith | Technology | The Guardian
“A team of very smart and experienced technicians have been trying to solve that...”
– Scott Adams Blog: Complexity 01/27/2010
“Aerial tectonics. Slow weather. Sky glacier.”
– BLDGBLOG: The Architecture of Polar Ice Floes
“You’ve been a consultant for a long time, and you’ve dealt a great...”
– Daniel Ellsberg on the Limits of Knowledge | Mother Jones