October 2010
11 posts
vampires
keyholez:
Jeopardy recently (? we “time shift”) had a category called “The Eco-Friendly Vampires.” It just contained questions about environmental-y stuff, but with a reference to vampires thrown in. Like, “The vampires like using this fuel [something something]” / “What is clean coal?” Note how the vampire part is not important in the clue.
What the fuck, guys?
There is some lottery...
Real-Time Transit Display: The First "Transit... →
weeels:
Weeels may be a “transit utility,” but Chris Smith from Portland Transport has debuted what he is calling the world’s first “Transit Appliance”.
Drawing upon a number of a variety of Open Source software components (including Linux), the Open Hardware “Chumby”…
The problem with learning new things is that it is impossible to evaluate information sources in advance because you are uniformed and it is impossible to evaluate information sources after the fact because they bias you in a sequence-sensitive fashion if for no other reason than that the first source is absorbed without being simultaneously being compared to impressions left by others.
There are...
“In Japan… they’re culturally open to robots, on account of animism. They don’t...”
– Why Japanese Love Robots (And Americans Fear Them) | Technology Review (via absalomabsalom)
Something funny about use of “on account of” here.
Pretty mangled
It’s probably worth saying that one example in the article has been a bit mangled in the retelling. The study on ‘how elderly people given full sugar lemonade expressed fewer racist sentiments than those given diet lemonade’ wasn’t actually on elderly people or racist remarks.
But it did show that students given real lemonade were less likely to make homophobic remarks when asked to write as...
“My understanding of blogs is the scientific part of it.”
– Keyholez
How Close Is a Workable Brain-Computer Interface?... →
I mean, the old-fashioned one is still workable, I think.
Should I read a fiction book, from culture? If so,...
This a serious question.