March 2008
The Associated Press: Guns, 'Anarchist Book' Found... →
February 2008
CIA - The World Factbook →
this is for arm-chair spooks, have a happy weekend!
Ice cream crisis as bees buzz off →
“The collapse of US honeybee colonies this year is set to devastate America’s multibillion dollar agriculture and food industries.”
'Google Bomb' an Enemy - Wired How-To Wiki →
“Memes are using human brains as their copying machinery. So we need to...”
– TED 2008: Humans Are Just Machines for Propagating Memes, Susan Blackmore Says
Happy Leap Day ! →
Air Force Launches Recruitment Campaign Touting... →
“There’s much more Cybarmageddon goodness at the Air Force’s official Changing World website, including another video that uses the Estonia DDoS attacks as a call to cyber arms. “The Cold War has given way to cyber war,” the narrator intones in a movie trailer hush. Some would say the Cold War has given way to the Iraq War. But put that in a video and see how many...
Google Unveils Tools to Set Up Web Sites - this is... →
With only a few clicks, just about anyone will be able to quickly set up and update a Web site featuring wide an array of material, including pictures, calendars and video from Google Inc.’s YouTube subsidiary, said Dave Girouard, general manager of the division overseeing the new application. “We are literally adding an edit button to the Web,” Girouard said.
TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford... →
“To be a hero you have to take action on behalf of someone else or some principle and you have to be deviant in your society, because the group is always saying don’t do it; don’t step out of line.”
How to Become a NINJA [click here] →
Anyone worth their weight in true 80s NINJA lore knows the name and work of Ashida Kim. Countless times growing up, you wanted to have NINJA stars, to become invisible at will, climb sheer walls, and become one with the Universe. NOW is your chance, dear reader. Click the link above to a PDF training manual and watch the video below, 1 0f 5. And Train, Train, Train…..choo...
Don't just stand there, THINK ! →
“If you want to teach a computer to play chess, or if you want to design a search engine, the old model is OK,” says Rolf Pfeifer, director of the artificial intelligence lab at the University of Zurich, “but if you’re interested in understanding real intelligence, you have to deal with the body.”
To do some further reading, other than the article listed above, check...
Washington gets a new colony in the Balkans - But... →
Don’t think this article has all the answers, but it does give an interesting perspective.
Oh, the Transhumanity! →
“We’ll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains through the capillaries and interact directly with our biological neurons,” Kurzweil told BBC News. The nanobots, he said, would “make us smarter, remember things better and automatically go into full emergent virtual reality environments through the nervous system”. Kurzweil is talking about something called...
The three trillion dollar war | Iraq & Afghanistan →
“The cost of direct US military operations - not even including long-term costs such as taking care of wounded veterans - already exceeds the cost of the 12-year war in Vietnam and is more than double the cost of the Korean War…”
What we can’t stand is this pointless bickering about the economy’s fallout because of subprime leases and overseas markets, etc… the...
Survey: Americans switching faiths, dropping out →
“The U.S. religious marketplace is extremely volatile, with nearly half of American adults leaving the faith tradition of their upbringing to either switch allegiances or abandon religious affiliation altogether, a new survey finds…”
Thank God!
Digital Tattoo: Cellphone Display Concept Designed... →
Hey, who needs mandatory RFID implants if you can sell human embedded tech via good ol’ fashioned convenience ?
Contrariwise ramblings: 1943 Guide to Hiring Women →
Arizona to become 'Persian Gulf' of solar energy →
Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy... →
Top 10 Quotes Against Work →
an awesome read
Google, Asked About Censorship at the UN, Moved to... →