Death Toll Grows At Scaled Composites Rocket Accident
Everything about this story is so amazingly sad to me; one of my personal heroes (and secret loves) is...
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Another Reason I’m All For Making Second Life Into A First-Person Shooter
Beware the “erotic dimension”! Jesuits urged to take God’s word to ‘Second Life’, snip: Catholic missionaries have always trekked...
Tech and Humanitarian Relief
There have been an ever-increasing number of articles about how technology is changing “humanitarian work”, which actually is a...
Congress: P2P Networks A National Security Threat
“Politicians call peer-to-peer networks a ‘national security threat’ because they enable federal employees to accidentally share sensitive or classified...
Duped: Understanding Lies, With Brain Scans
This New Yorker article by Margaret Talbot about lying and brain scans is one of the most entertaining things...
The Piston Ring Earthquake: Big Japanese Automakers Shut Down
A quick post on Salon touched on this last week, but it looks like things aren’t getting any better...
Lawsuit Seeks to Shut Down Facebook
Uh oh. I’m not really “on” Facebook, but a lot of my friends are. (Aside: anyone have an extra...
NASA Robotics Software Now Publicly Available
I’m a bit behind on blogging this but it’s still new and exciting news to me: last month NASA...
Tattoos Meet Disappearing Ink
Would you get a tattoo with removable ink? I’ll admit to having one tattoo I wished I’d done that...
Senate Fucks Shit Up For TV, Restores Anti-Indecency Measure
Who watches regular TV anymore, or listens to the radio? Probably just our elected officials and a smattering of...