So, DNA is machine code (except it's got four instead of two). I expect there'll be DNA hacking at some point; that's not a surprising thought. However, no one programs in machine code these days (if you do, you don't count as a person. Sorry.). Instead we program in higher-level languages, such as C. I wanna program in DNA++, though. I ( Read more... )

I just had a great idea for making a fairly effective porn filter. Create an index site, maybe something like del.icio.us, for porn. Let people use it to store references to their favorite pornography. On the flip side, use it to implement a porn filter for kids.

Yeah, I know there are problems, but it's so win-win!

People downstairs are singing, off-key, in French. Vas is watching Dr. Who, which astounds and astonishes with the quality (low) of its music and dialogue. I'm gonna go get lemons.

My favorite Scrabble word is a journal.
"'Watch the suits,' Ray cautioned, not that we got many suits on Haight Street..."

What do you get when you combine an angry ghost and a rich-but-grieving relative?
A happy medium.

It seems as though with more humans you ought to have more language, so they can all say something unique, but instead you get less language, on average, so they can all understand it.
EDIT: I made a typo writing this. "same" for "say". Funny.

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I bet the Prophet would've laughed it off.

Man: Yeah, I was a rocket scientist, but I gave it all up three months ago and became a photographer.
Waiter: I became a ninja.

--Ninja New York, Hudson Street

(www.overheardinnewyork.com)

It is when today is tomorrow, and you wish to refer to that point in time which is tomorrow, despite being today. Handy for confusion in email scheduling.

To-dayrow and to-dayrow and to-dayrow, creeps in this petty pace...