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Best. Tattoo. Ever.
If I wasn’t afraid that Shadow would divorce me, I would immediately be heading for the tattoo parlor.Link (via Wil Wheaton)
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AI Busted for Practicing Law
A (weak) artificial intelligence in the form of an expert system has been cited for thinking too much. A web-based “expert system” that helped users prepare bankruptcy filings for a fee made too many decisions to be considered a clerical tool, an appeals court said last week, ruling that the software was effectively practicing law…
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NASA Protocol for Crazy Astronauts
Nice to know there is one. If you’re a NASA astronaut and you totally flip out in space, your crewmates are instructed to restrain you with duct tape, tie you down with bungee cords, and inject you with the anti-psychotic drug Haldol or a tranquilizer like Valium. Link (via BoingBoing)
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Chip’s Picks – Roger Zelazny
The latest addition to the continuing Chip’s Picks project (which is “continuing” in the sense of “not entirely defunct” rather than “updated with anything approaching regularity, sorry about that”), is Roger Zelazny. Zelazny writes a very loose sort of SF–what I suppose would be called “soft” science fiction–which hints at technology but doesn’t discuss the…
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Got Wok?
When I think of all the money I’ve sent to DishTV in the past years … A software programmer substituted a $10 Chinese cooking wok for a $20,000 satellite dish on behalf of his New Zealand television station. Link
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Another One of Those Headlines
Swiss accidentally invade Liechtenstein Interior ministry spokesman Markus Amman said nobody in Liechtenstein had even noticed the soldiers, who were carrying assault rifles but no ammunition. :::giggle:::
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Mark Your Calendars
Just a reminder: There will be a full lunar eclipse tomorrow. It starts at 5:44 p.m. ET, so it’ll already be underway when the moon rises in the U.S. The Western half of the country will miss the show. (Finally–a reason to thank Shadow for making me move back East.)Link
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Shadaughter on YouTube
We entered Shadaughter in the Masquerade at WorldCon in Glasgow. To our delight, she just uncovered a YouTube clip of herself. So here, without further ado, is Shadaughter’s performance as a Vampire Cheerleader:(The sound isn’t precisely synched with her movements, which I guess is an artifact of the video transfer)(I made the costume, incidentally.)(Help! I’m…
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I Like This
“It’s another day without the internets. Man, it feels like 1993 all over again. Sure, I have a computer, but it doesn’t know anything I hadn’t told it.” — From James Lileks’ blogThat’s one of the nicest summations of what the Internet does for us that I’ve ever run into.
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Two-Minute String Theory Contest
Discover Magazine is running a contest for the best video explaining String Theory in two minutes or less. The winning video, chosen by physicist Brian Greene, will appear on the Discover home page and the creators will be featured in the magazine.Link