Have you heard of the Singularity, popularized by Ray Kurzweil, in which nanotechnology bonds with our biology and we all become transcendant super-beings who never die? It’s a dubious possibility, though Kurzweil theory has inspired a whole school specifically dedicated to making his dream a reality. But it’s just not soon enough for some people, […]
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FCC Caves to Industry, The End of Net Neutrality
From NYT: The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to pass a controversial set of rules that broadly create two classes of Internet access, one for fixed-line providers and the other for the wireless Net. The proposed rules of the online road would prevent fixed-line broadband providers like Comcast and Qwest from blocking access to sites […]
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Ascent
I haven’t watched all of this (It’s 45 minutes long! The commentary voices are making me sleepy!), but the first 20 minutes or so are pretty damn impressive anyway. It’s a compilation of some of the best footage NASA has of various space shuttle launches from camera angles not usually seen by the public. An […]
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Tablets Are the Future of Comics
If you had any doubt, Robot 6 points out that three of the top five grossing iPad apps this year are comic-book-related: This reflects not just the quality of the iPad as a comics medium for comics but also the large numbers of comics that must be selling through those apps (the apps themselves are […]
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Watching Operation Payback
I normally would never link to a website called Malware Database, and if you’re running a vulnerable system, you might want to be careful here. BUT! Malware Database is mirroring Anonymous’ Operation Payback blog (the original is down due to counter-counter-counter DDoS’in’), and it’s pretty fascinating. Update — 12/8/2010 — 8:24 AM Mastercard.com is still […]
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Today in “Guys! I’m Not Gay, Okay?!? And Yet…”
… and yet, I’m super-duper interested in this ABBA iPhone app! WAIT!!! DON’T SCROLL DOWN!! Look. I bust my ASS on this blog for you every fucking day, and I would think the least you can do is to hear me out on this, okay? THANK YOU. Anyway, check out this new app called the […]
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Beat Box in German with Google
Did you know that using the Google Translator feature you can beat box? In GERMAN! Check out this song made with the translator: Here’s a couple of tips on how to do it: 1) Go to Google Translate2) Set the translator to translate German to German3) Copy + paste the following into the translate box: […]
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What the Internets Lack: Shame
So says Julie Zhou, a design manager at Facebook, in her New York Times op-ed on how to defeat trolls: Trolling, defined as the act of posting inflammatory, derogatory or provocative messages in public forums, is a problem as old as the Internet itself, although its roots go much farther back. Even in the fourth […]
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Comcast Threatening Net Neutrality?
Comcast appears to be testing the waters when it comes to un-leveling the playing field for certain kinds of content on its network. Considering that the cable giant is very close to completing its acquisition of NBC-Universal, they’ll soon have a hundred shit-tons of content of their own, and a giant financial interest in making […]
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Where Can I Read Stupid Comments on the Internet?
/Techno Tuesday Today my friend Sean pointed me in the direction of Kevin Collier’s awesome continuing series, Get To Know an Internet Commenter, over on McSweeney’s. As the site describes the series: “Kevin Collier searches the Internet for people who comment a lot, then copies and pastes a fair representation of their output.” Comments are […]
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Can Do Better
The Hairpin (which has totally replaced the space in my heart formerly occupied by Jezebel) linked to Can Do Better. It’s a Hot Or Not-type website in which you can vote on whether a specific person in a relationship could find someone more attractive to date. (Warning: Clicking over to the site activates a brief, […]