I've been thinking lately, so many of our alleged political and corporate leaders call themselves the sane, sensible, smart ones, and then get up in fancy suits and tell us absolutely crazy things they expect us to believe. So the idea this is giving me is to run for office somewhere, as a mad scientist. Tell everybody front up I'm crazy. ( Read more... )

These autonomous flight tricks are awesome. Almost unreal to watch. Luckily these things are so little I don't think they could carry any weapons, so we're safe from the robot dragonfly revolution... FOR NOW.

Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show is both super awesome and one of the cutest things ever.

A discussion of desinging a society for a generation ship, on sci-fi author Charles Stross's blog.

An exhaustive 70 minute youtube takedown of the many ways The Phantom Menace sucked, and why.

America's Low-Wage future, about the jobs that will add the most positions in the future (hint, they're the ones that suck)

Rich People Things, A Steady ( Read more... )

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Well, the very first state in the presidential primaries is over. Mike Huckabee, preacher and proponent of the bullshit "Fair Tax" scheme won the Republicans, and Rudy Guiliani, who's quite possibly more authoritarian and scary than George W. Bush came in last. Even behind Ron Paul ( Read more... )

I give you, Trans Siberian Orchestra and choreographed lights.

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The same guy also did Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) the year before.

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I have many other things I haven't blogged about yet, but for now I give you these links, stolen from Slacktivist.

John Rogers of Kung Fu Monkey on the Writer's Strike again. He has two simple explanations for the strike. The cake is a lie. And the tigers went tiger.

Not the Daily Show, with some writer

Not the Colbert Report

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Shaneon Garrity linked this music video of "Explode,"  by Balthrop, Alabama from one of the Narbonic commentaries.  It's a fun song and the video looks like the band's all having fun.  Enjoy it!  Unless you're on dialup, then you'd have to like sit and wait and stuffs.