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Geekery, politics, and more politics.
Geekery first: This german guy built a quite impressive general grevious costume. Of interest to the many creative costumers getting ready for AC.
( Politics is below the cut, but both are pretty fair, honest, and refreshingly lacking in bile. ) -
Sunny... Buffalo.
This father's day weekend, i'm up seeing my father and his new wife in their new home in (near) Buffalo, NY ( Read more... ) -
I can hear the neoconservative wharrgarbl revving up as i type this...
... at least i kind of hope so, it'll help get the studies a lot more notice, and these are deserving of attention.
A nearly 25-year study concluded that children raised in lesbian households were psychologically well-adjusted and had fewer behavioral problems than their peers. 78 couples were followed through their kids' development through ( Read more... ) -
Observation of using digital media #29
At irregular intervals, you will play the game of "is that a mark on the image, or a speck on my screen" and guess wrong with annoying frequency. -
I have this creeping feeling he may be right...
The presenter here talks about how games are already creeping into many facets of life, and how lots of them aren't done by competent game designers. He goes on to explore what will happen when this technology is damned near disposable. (echos of the world in Diamond Age) He looks at how drastically advertising will affect our behavior and ( Read more... ) -
CNN's lovely science... okay, i nitpick, still, it's painful.
this quote is from a cnn article.
CNN: What exactly have you done?
J. Craig Venter: We announced the first cell that is totally controlled by a synthetic chromosome, that we designed in a computer based on an existing chromosome.We built it from four bottles of chemicals.. that's over a million base pairs [of chromosomes]. emphasis mine. CNN ( Read more... ) -
Been to Google today?
They have something special set up on their front page for pacman's 30th birthday.
I think national productivity will drop like a rock.
Also, it's apparently HTML5 running it, instead of flash.
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20 years ago, today...
I was 13, in 7th grade, pretty depressed already, and I'd just learned that Jim Henson had died.
I was crushed. The world is a better place for him sharing it with us, and a poorer one for his passing. Tom Smith's tribute song put it best: "he had so much more to give."
Thanks, Jim.
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Iron Man 2
no spoilers...
Movie's worth watching. Lots of explosions, several people commented that there was perhaps too much character introduction/development, i can agree on a few of the characters, i guess.
Stay after the credits, they have fun teasing us again.
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