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Feb
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1st
Jared Tarbell is an artist and programmer who does gorgeous computational art, coded in the Processing language. And not only are the finished pieces amazing (and available for purchase), but you can also “run” the art, see it grown in a pop-up applet. (via MAKE: Blog: Computational, generative art)
Jan
20th
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…because honestly, combining 2001 with domestic shorthair cats is about as close to the truly divine as I’m ever likely to come. (via No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons (Reloaded).: “God is Gonna Kick Your Ass You Infidelic Pagan Scum”)
Jan
19th
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19th
There are atheists who look on a tragedy and cry, “There is no god,” in despair. But we are atheists who look on beauty and complexity and awesome immensity and shout out, “There is no god!” and we are glad.
Some people who have never been through this view the spoon-rationing as “giving in” to the illness. I guess these are the same people who subscribe to the contorted, f**ked-up cognitive-behavioural causality model of CFS: they think that I’m sick because I’ve convinced myself that I’m sick, and that I have limits simply because I’m spending my hours and my days working within my limits. What they didn’t see was the many months I spent denying that I had limits, busting them, and paying out for it. What they are looking at now is survival, not surrender. I’m gleaning the positives from an unpleasant situation; I’m eking out a life both happy and worthwhile, from the boundaries I’m stuck with - just like anyone else on this planet does. I don’t need pity, but I do need consideration.
Jan
12th
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12th
Imagine a time in which you would not have to plug in your cellphone or iPod over night to recharge the battery. Instead you would power and charge a device simply by wearing it close to your body. The concept of converting waste heat into electricity isn’t exactly new, but it never really materialized due to efficiency hurdles. Now, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley think they may have found a key increase the conversion efficiency by a factor of 100.
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Jan
5th
Sat
5th
# Robots do not want to have sex with you. Are you listening, Japan? I don’t have a clever comparative simile for this, because frankly you bags of meat will fuck bicycles if they’re laying down and not putting up a fight. Just stop it. There is no robot on Earth that wants to see a bag of meat with a small prong on the end approaching it with a can of WD-40 and a hopeful smile. And don’t get me started on that terrifying hole that squeezes out more bags of meat.
Dec
18th
Tue
18th
If we stop telecom immunity, we’ll probably get to call the NSA and the government to account, too. If the telecoms get immunized, the government could get a walk as well. (via Telecom Immunity bill dying, thanks to you — KEEP IT UP! - Boing Boing)
Dec
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Cool paper and wood pen from iHerb.com. Very little plastic.
Dec
15th
Sat
15th
Sometimes making stuff up feels a lot like Coyote running across the empty space between one rocky pinnacle and the next, and as long as you keep moving you’re fine. When you stop and look down, it’s suddenly all too apparent that there’s absolutely nothing underneath and that you’re keeping in the air by a peculiar effort of will. And then a good day comes, and you start running through the air once again, and, if you’re smart, you resolutely don’t look down.
