Life In 2015, If Obama Wins
[ Comments Off ]Posted on November 3, 2008 by admin in Politics
The Longest 24 Hours Of My Life
[ Comments Off ]Posted on November 3, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
I feel like the kid who’s been smacked too many times by his mean dad to believe that he’s finally getting a piece of candy just for being good. Is this really happening? Is an intelligent, sohisticated, compassionate, BLACK man actually going to be elected president tomorrow? I keep drinking coffee and pinching myself. Maybe [...]
I feel like the kid who’s been smacked too many times by his mean dad to believe that he’s finally getting a piece of candy just for being good. Is this really happening? Is an intelligent, sohisticated, compassionate, BLACK man actually going to be elected president tomorrow? I keep drinking coffee and pinching myself. Maybe I slipped into a coma induced by the eighth year of the surreality of the Bush administration…but no, I keep looking, and rubbing my eyes, and it’s still there. Why are so many of us still worried the candy’s going to be snatched back from us? Why do I feel like tomorrow is going to be the longest 24 hours of my life?
Lose Your Keys? Big Brother Knows Where They Are
[ 1 Comment ]Posted on November 3, 2008 by admin in Technology
And soon Google will have a service to make replacement keys for you!
I’m the kind of person who gets annoyed when Google takes my picture without asking. So the implications of these two technologies has staggering possibilities to me. First, UC San Diego researchers managed to use a photo taken with a telephoto lens to make a functional set of duplicate keys. Combine that with the incredible new image recognition technology in the presentation at left, and the possibilities are amazing. The clip is nine minutes long, but worth a watch (and probably much better full size). The software being discussed is called Photosynth, and what it does is analyze photos for similarities to others, then uses that data to build a model of where the photos were taken. This can theoretically be done with photos from all over the web, the info being gathered much like text is gathered by Google. Now that image recognition is becoming so sophisticated, is it possible that soon those automated help voices on the phone will understand what we’re saying?
Sage Advice From A Seasoned Bush
[ Comments Off ]Posted on November 2, 2008 by admin in Comics
Gerry Nicholls, of the Democracy Institute, expands on this idea nicely here.
Gerry Nicholls, of the Democracy Institute, expands on this idea nicely here.
It’s Sunday. Go For A Walk.
[ Comments Off ]Posted on November 2, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
No really. Get off my web site.
 Walking. It’s underrated |
Even if it’s raining, snowing, or the middle of hurricane season wherever you are today, I’d recommend going for a walk before you click any of these links. If you’re not going to follow that bit of advice, then at least tell me what happens when you knock off the last brick in this brick-throwing game. Once you’ve figured that out, take a rest with some pointless retinal torture, and while you’re torturing your eyes, torture your ears and mind with the CKOI radio Palin prank call, if you haven’t heard it. If that doesn’t unsettle you so much that you NEED to take a walk, you deserve the simple-minded torture of run (Warning: annoyingly loud rave soundtrack).