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Adventures in Kindleland
So I got a Kindle for my birthday and figured I would load it up with some reading material for my trip home for christmas. On the Amazon.com website I did a random search for in the Science Fiction & Fantasy category and was immediately overwhelmed by a selection of what I can only describe as gay bodice rippers ( Read more... ) -
Some of my more recent distractions:
First some humor ( Read more... ) -
Do you know the difference?
This had been going on for some time, and I was beginning to think about trying to find another game when a lovely young Southern belle activated her microphone, and destroyed them. For the record, I know she was young and Southern from the drawl in her voice. I know she was lovely because any woman that plays online zombie shooters and can come up ( Read more... ) -
Ain't I a Woman?
No, I'm not channeling Whitney ( Read more... ) -
I have decided to attend Harvard
Well kinda. I came across this series yesterday and promptly spent 6 hours last night watching the lectures. Does that make me weird ( Read more... ) -
Resonant Energy Transfer
or if you prefer... wireless electricity.
http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_giler_demos_wireless_electricity.html
( some humour and politics ) -
Sex, Love and Attachment
A very interesting talk by Helen Fisher an anthropologist at Rutgers ( Read more... ) -
I'm not trying to scare you or anything...
... but I found this very interesting and topical to boot:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/laurie_garrett_on_lessons_from_the_1918_flu.html
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Touchy Feely
Iambic_cub gave me Predictably Irrational to read just the other day, and as luck would have it, I came across a talk the author gave at TED recently. If I didn't already have the book sitting next to my bed at home waiting to be read, this probably would have had me ordering it ( Read more... ) -
Thought for the day.
The stimulus plan is to the economy as the Patriot Act is to national security.
In short, it is a bunch of politicians spending a metric fuckton of money in an attempt to make it look like they are doing something. And in the long run, doing more harm than good.