Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
Remember that one? It came from an episode of Lost in Space that I saw when I was maybe seven or eight, and it has stuck with me all these years. I even looked it up a little while back… apparently I’m not the only one it has stuck with.
Ever since I read Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age, I’ve been wondering what would happen when anyone could download a set of plans and print their own, for example, Star Wars toys. And more to the point, what would happen when those plans could be pirated. Anything digital can easily be copied; the Internet is …
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Some people have a lot more money than sense.
A science-fiction film actually made in orbit. Talk about… wait for it… a match made in heaven. 😉
Good God… someone actually advocating an intelligent solution to movie piracy, in a mainstream business magazine?! Unbelievable! Listen up, Hollywood. As an independent software developer, I’ve been dealing with Internet piracy for longer than you — without a single lawyer, let alone an army of them, and often on a shoestring budget. The facts in …
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This sort of thing might have come directly from a science-fiction action story, where the hero is patched up in an unbelievably short time between epic space battles. Who says the future is always far away? 😉
“Designer ice cubes“? More proof that life imitates art, I guess. 😉
I can’t tell whether this is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard, or the most appalling. Or maybe both. 🙂
Now why hasn’t anyone thought of something like this before? Practically everyone uses earphones these days, and I for one always have to look at the blasted things to figure out which one is supposed to go in which ear. Maybe most people just don’t bother? Of course, from the consumer’s end this will probably …
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“US, UK research: Thick kids more likely to become bigots“. Ouch. I’ve often thought that today’s conservatives weren’t the brightest bulbs on the whole, and wondered whether there was some causal link there, but to have it bluntly spelled out like that is pretty damning. Maybe these studies should be publicized a lot more. Nobody …
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