31 March 09 - 02:25Radiology Art
http://www.radiologyart.com/: very cool looking.
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http://www.radiologyart.com/: very cool looking.
30 March 09 - 23:05Western internet censorship: The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? - Wikileaks
Western internet censorship: The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?
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29 March 09 - 18:59Financial Times 2020 - FT 2020.com
http://www.ft2020.com/: hilarious FT parody.
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29 March 09 - 05:47Mexico's drug gangs drive film crew out of town - Americas, World - The Independent
Mexico's drug gangs drive film crew out of town: wow.
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28 March 09 - 22:42UN Attacks Free Speech
UN HRC loses all credibility: as if having blatant, repeated human rights violators on it wasn't enough. How very, very sad.
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25 March 09 - 22:48ASCII-Art - The Complete Guide To Cows
All you need to know about cows
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25 March 09 - 18:59Iran Mulls Death Penalty For Bloggers
Iran Mulls Death Penalty For Bloggers: in case you thought today's theocracies couldn't get worse.
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25 March 09 - 12:19"Lancing the f***ing boil": how digital killed Big Music - Ars Technica
"Lancing the f***ing boil": funny.
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24 March 09 - 22:14DARPA at phase 2 on human 'regeneration'
DARPA working on human body part regeneration: I could use another arm, or perhaps a prehensile tail.
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24 March 09 - 19:07Health Insurers Ease Stance on Pre-Existing Conditions - NYTimes.com
Health care industry begs for regulation out of fear that a publicly run system would put them out of business.
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22 March 09 - 18:09Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet
Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet: good article.
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20 March 09 - 15:23Crawling the Web to Foretell Ecosystem Collapse | Wired Science from Wired.com
Crawling the Web to Foretell Ecosystem Collapse
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20 March 09 - 11:05Our failure proves our point - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
Our failure proves our point: anti-government whiners win no matter what.
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19 March 09 - 20:21FT.com / Climate Change Challenge - Robot fish to hunt down pollution
Pollution tacking robofish
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18 March 09 - 10:55Darwin in Turkey: 'Most Express Sympathy for the Censorship' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,613768,00.html: Mr. Ataurk would be absolutely outraged at what has become of his secular nation.
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15 March 09 - 09:16Mexico's Drug War: Mexico drug cartels' new weaponry means war - Los Angeles Times
Mexico's Drug War: Mexico drug cartels' new weaponry means war. This is what happens when you have a weak state and widespread poverty. The drug gangs have many advantages: no limits to brutality, significant income for arms and bribery, and the ability to blend in easily. Government officials are uniformed or have known faces, and government buildings are in well known locations. This keeps up and the drug gangs will turn into a government.
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15 March 09 - 08:06Novelties: How To Hack An Electronic Road Sign
How To Hack An Electronic Road Sign: funny.
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14 March 09 - 10:59Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable - Clay Shirky
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
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14 March 09 - 05:36The Rise of the Underground - WSJ.com
Some researchers are starting to argue the informal economy is becoming a permanent fixture in some poorer countries -- in good times and bad -- as population growth outstrips job creation.The Rise of the Underground: most decidedly not a good thing. "Some researchers are starting to argue the informal economy is becoming a permanent fixture in some poorer countries -- in good times and bad -- as population growth outstrips job creation." See a problem yet?
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14 March 09 - 05:34Rocket Scientists Shoot Down Mosquitoes With Lasers - WSJ.com
Anti-mosquito lasers and mosquitoes as flying syringes: heh.
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11 March 09 - 08:03Building in Iceland? Better Clear It With the Elves First - New York Times
Wow. This is why it's important to realize that "Atheism" is too narrow a term, and to move on to the next level: Naturalistic Thinking. You can be an open Atheist (like Bjork), "Yet even Bjork cannot say no for sure" that there are no Elves. You can be a typical Atheist and believe in all sorts of nonsense (I knew one who steadfastly believed in ghosts). Naturalistic thinking is the rejection of the idea of the supernatural, period. If there's no evidence, much less proof, the subject isn't even worth discussing. Atheism is too narrow; rejecting only the existence of a personal god isn't going even remotely far enough. Now, I know a great many people that call themselves Atheists that are, in fact, Naturalistic Thinkers (I call myself an Atheist when I just don't feel like explaining), but the fact that there are Atheists that believe in Astrology, ghosts, or Elves means that we actually do need to draw the distinction, or we lump ourselves in with certain people who potentially accept various forms of quackery, but call themselves rational because they reject the most popular kind. Read Excluding the Supernatural and The Brights for more.
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11 March 09 - 04:39Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline - Photo Essays - TIME
Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline
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08 March 09 - 07:24Thumbs up for 3D bone printer
Thumbs up for 3D bone printer: "EXACT replicas of a man's thumb bones have been made for the first time using a 3D printer. The breakthrough paves the way for surgeons to replace damaged or diseased bones with identical copies built from the patients' own cells."
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08 March 09 - 06:21Enzyme behind cancer spread found
Enzyme behind cancer spread found: excellent.
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08 March 09 - 06:03It's Not Iran; It's Palestine | The American Prospect
It's Not Iran; It's Palestine: what happens if the two-state solution fails.
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01 March 09 - 21:36The Cute Cat Theory Talk at ETech
The Cute Cat Theory Talk at ETech: great stuff.
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