i thought i was just getting cranky in my advancing age, but the data (science) seems to confirm the opposite...


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the following quote is from a wikipedia article about annexation of crimean penninsula by russia...

`Yandex Maps displays Crimea according to official position of user's country. Users visiting Yandex.ru from Russia will see Crimea displayed as Russian territory. Users visiting Yandex.ua or Yandex.ru from Crimea will see peninsula as belonging to ( Read more... )

so, the google glass is over and for all the obvious reasons i've mentioned for a while now, i.e.
- battery life
- voice commands
- smarphones

of course, that only means that something like that will take the world by storm in about 10 years or so...

made national news (via fox, unsurprisingly)

here is a little more if you are a sticler for minute details, like some.

thanks for the help in fighting anti-semitism, ben edelman...

welcome to daily 42 degree temperature spreads. this is starting to get mars-like...

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Isaac Asimov, 1980...

santa clara - sunday through tuesday.
mainly free for the first two days...

if you have two business trips that overlap on the same day you can be sure that you'll definitely be going to one or the other in the end.
however, if you happen to have three trips overlaping, you can pretty much guarantee you won't be going anywhere at all....

in other news, new miss usa (kira kazantsev) is not only a russian girl from walnut ( Read more... )

continuing with the thought started by my previous post ( Read more... )

has anyone thought about setting up ebola treatment centers in/near ISIS controlled territory?
just saying...