High-tech entrepreneurs killed when nobody should have been flying

Let's take a look at this.

A twin-engine Cessna 310 registered to a Tesla Motors engineer crashed shortly after takeoff this morning in East Palo Alto, wrecking three homes and a day care center and killing all three Tesla employees on board. Miraculously, no one on the ground was ( Read more... )

Do not use technical terms whose meanings you do not know.

In general this guy seems to me like an uninteresting over-the-top leftist, but I was tickled by this line:

And yet this presidency [Obama's] in practice has been like watching George W. Bush with a working cerebellum.George W. Bush, no hero of mine, is quite capable of walking, balancing ( Read more... )

It's easy to think of ways that this might have happened.
But it still means something is broken at Fox News:


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...let us never speak of that again."

qatar recently mentioned Translation PartySupposedly it translates your phrase into Japanese and then back -- and then back into Japanese, and so on -- until it finally gets the same phrase back twice ( Read more... )

This week I had an inspiration.

Robotic fish.
I mean, they would be fish -- but they would also be robots!What could possibly be cooler than that ( Read more... )

We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission

John Scalzi describes himself as sort of old at 37, but you can see why people might take far longer to really hit their stride.

Underpope, have you seen this yet?

Transmitted by Nico on Tuesday6:03 PM ET -- "What I have witnessed." A powerful note from a female medical student in Iran, translated from Farsi by a trusty reader ( Read more... )