ExProg: The Chronicle of a Fallen Age

[willwoods]

Currently Reading: "Immortality: How Science is Extending Your Life Span and Changing The World" - Ben Bova (audible.com)

In news at which my friend DC would likely be writing in jest "I can't believe you're even concerned about this at all when we could all be raped to death by Julian Assange tomorrow" we, the people of America, are losing our

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[oaksylph]

Saw these: http://www.astrosurf.com/sguisard/Pagim/Easter_Island1.html Woah.

Anyway, synchronicity again! I had just been on a whinge binge last night, complaining about how the latest binge of consumer enforcement - from the end of analog TV to internet crackdowns to health insurance to the cost of hospital birth to new housing regulations - seem to be designed, in the absence of productive new marks, to attempt to make people pay for the very experience of being alive at every stage. I don't know what to do about it, but it can't last, any more than the economic booms of empire do.

[oaksylph]

Oh, this too:

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26308/?p1=A5

If you're not following Jay Lake's lj, you're missing a lot of awesome links like this.

Thanks! Interesting Stuff!

[willwoods]

Ah, but is he mentioning this?:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-italian-scientists-cold-fusion-video.html

OR PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/24/technology/3D_food_printer/index.htm?iid=HLM

Re: Thanks! Interesting Stuff!

[oaksylph]

Wait... I need to rewatch that...

Meanwhile, for your amusement, Van Gogh's color schemes in pie chart form. Can you spot "Cypresses"? "Starry Night on the Rhone"?