Bionic eye trials are just around the corner...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/30/2860256.htm

Someone published a serious epidemiological study of the spread and containment of... Zombies ( Read more... )

Your results:
You are Geordi LaForge
Geordi LaForge
65%
Will Riker
65%
Spock
62%
James T. Kirk (Captain)
55%
Jean-Luc Picard
55%
Worf
55%
Mr. Sulu
50%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)
45%
Data
32%
Mr. Scott
30%
Chekov
30%
Beverly Crusher
30%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)
30%
Uhura
25%
Deanna Troi
20%

You work well with others and often
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"A Canadian filmmaker plans to have a mini camera installed in his prosthetic eye to make documentaries and raise awareness about surveillance in society."

Apparently he lost his right eye as a teenager, putting him in not exactly unique position to explore this technology, but certainly an unusual one...

He does not intend to create a reality TV ( Read more... )

A friend of mine sent this holiday gem to me recently...

I determined that it dates back to an essay on NPR by Diane Roberts, back in December 2005:

(You may listen at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5060356 )

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My wonderful wife kadar3 created this after a marathon session reading on http://patrick.net/housing/crash.html :

The One FedBailouts for the Big 3 under Detroit sky ( Read more... )

This is too cool...

I gotta get one of these things.
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I'm searching for a decent reproduction of the original, 12th century Chinese painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". I have thoughts of mounting and framing it for display in my house.
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Quoted from slouchinphysics:

So here is an amusing article from Edge. Now being from Edge its gonna be wordy and a bit dry but its an exploration of the effect of contagion in social networks. What is more commonly referred to as memes. Expect these folks are getting data on them and actually learning a bit how they work in both a qualitative and quantitative ( Read more... )

For many years I have thought that a game set in a pulpy universe like that of "Doc Savage, Man of Bronze" would be cool, but making it work as a GAME with one guy that is better at everything the other guys specialize in seemed... hard ( Read more... )