Some responses to a friend's political posts ( Read more... )

A comment in response to this article about how the 21st century is ruining our lives ( Read more... )

( A friend's hypothetical about Iraq, here's the important part: )

A Wired article about energy policy...

"If the President were serious about energy independence, he would ask us to drive less and use public transportation more. "

Me ( Read more... )

So, I'm a big fan of Nuclear Power for various reasons, primarily less dependence on fossil fuels and less carbon emissions. We'll run out of oil eventually and in the long run nuclear, solar, hydro and the like are the only indefinitely sustainable power technologies ( Read more... )

I think the most important thing that LSD teaches us is not to ever fully trust our senses, especially while on LSD ( Read more... )

Of course I don't know. But they like doing cool stuff and they like acquiring things and combining them in interesting ways. I could see all kinds of neato ways they could move, all of which could kind of fall under the umbrella of a Google OS ( Read more... )

I don't get nightmares much any more but I used to have several that seem a bit archetypal when I was under 10. Things that were abstract; morphing colors like you get when you close and press on your eyes featured prominently in some, and the sense I got was that the abstractness was all there was. I sort of forgot the waking world, and felt ( Read more... )

This account seems to have been posted on Craigslist, but was removed by the Craigslist community ( Read more... )

My former roommate Nation has put up some of his paintings here.I think his work is so amazing it's ridiculous. I don't know why he isn't already well known, but I think it's because he's not marketing himself, or doing so in too limited a fashion. He always talks about gallery showings, and selling paintings for hundreds or thousands of $s. But ( Read more... )