My personal picks:

Honda is releasing a new Accord that drives itself. Some guys smuggled heroin in puppies. And the military has apparently developed a super laser weapon.

Oddly enough, I saw no mention of impending breakthroughs on human-animal hybrids, even though this is clearly a growing national concern.

I was trying to figure out how you could generate a three-dimensional model of some object. The best I could come up with is: you put your object in the center of a room with white or blue walls (or anything else that you expect to contrast intensely with the subject.) You have a video camera mounted on a circular track, which rotates around and ( Read more... )

I was just thinking about how you would explain feelings to a robot, alien, or whatever your non-feeling entity of choice happens to be. It'd be easy enough for them to understand it from a scientific point of view as chemical reactions and ancient evolved neural structures or whatever, but I was trying to figure out how you could convey the ( Read more... )

People can shoot porn in the US, right? And prostitution's illegal almost everywhere in the US, right? So what's the difference between paying somebody to have sex with you, and paying somebody to have sex with somebody else? If you and a friend go up to a hooker and each of you pays for the other and tapes it, does that make it legal?

What makes fun fun?

Why are games and sports or whatever fun, and work is not?

I'm leaning towards jack of all trades now, so I'm trying to figure out how exactly to divide my time. Preferring creation of and adherence to a formal system in situations like this, I'm having a hard time making decisions on what to do without having concrete guidelines. The closest thing to a criterion that I have yet is: do things that, if ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4353853.stm

" The world's first purpose-built hydrogen-powered bike could be fitted with an artificial "vroom" because of worries its silence might be dangerous. "

I didn't see that problem coming.

I finally got around to trying to obtain a formal answer to the poker question that's been kicking around in my head for a while now. It's common knowledge among poker players that all chips in your stack are not created equal; the further up the stack you go, the less each subsequent chip is worth. For example, the difference between 400 and 600 ( Read more... )

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Jordan and I were talking the other day about how most people just do, like, one or two things, most of the time. Nobody really varies their routine that much, even most of the ones who claim they do ( Read more... )