I can send them if you need them.

I almost typed Obama is dead.  But seriously, we got that bastard.  It's to bad it didn't happen sooner... before we started one to many wars.

Nokia has all but sold itself to Microsoft.

It could have been worse.  It sounds like they are keeping symbian around for the phones that they will sell in the developing world to billions of people, and keeping Meego around as an experimental project.  They should have gone full force on Meego as soon as the n900 came out.

They had a good strategy ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4coi8rgULZ4

8.9 is a scale that is hard to imagine. That video already puts the disaster into perspective. The tsunami is just washing away entire towns like the buildings are sandcastles.

Grab your beer. Tonight is the State of the Union Drinking Game.

IBMs AI "Watson" wins Jeopardy practice round against human champions.  This is pretty fucking sweet.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/13/ibms-watson-supercomputer-destroys-all-humans-in-jeopardy-pract/

More promo videos of it here and here.

And I was beginning to think their wasn't any decent advances in AI recently.  Now we are truly beginning to ( Read more... )

Fox Shoots Hunter
"A hunter was shot by a fox in Belarus. Not, like, a sexy woman-an actual fox, that the hunter was trying to kill. I know, right?"

I know this post is old but it inspired me to respond.
( In response to this: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/665670/ )

That's a very thoughtful journal entry. You do a good job trying to weigh the pros and cons. And what I get most out of it is that we all share an awe of nature and its beauty and that their are no simple answers to the ( Read more... )

http://games.adultswim.com/polar-bear-payback-action-online-game.html
Now this is fun!

This video also goes well with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-UTPKL-UGY

Former President Clinton Named PETA's 2010 Person of the Year

Fox News
By April Girouard
Created 2010-12-22 10:32

Former President Bill Clinton [1] enjoyed soaring approval ratings in the polls this year, but his popularity extends beyond voters to another vast demographic: the animal kingdom.

Animal rights advocacy group PETA this ( Read more... )