Contributing to global climate change since 1965, Allen believes that you have a Constitutional right to his opinion. Who would win in a fight? Superman or Batman? Alien or Predator? Tin Man or Scarecrow? It turns out that Tin Man takes the prize if the decision is up to “undecided voters.” According to this story:
The survey probed at the persuadables’ underlying values with cultural questions. For example, if the election were a choice [...]
According to this story, Duke University is “giving away” “free” iPods to the incoming freshman class. The ‘pods are pre-loaded with an audio tour of the campus and a rudimentary academic calendar along with important campus phone numbers. Sounds like a good gig.
In response to other criticisms aimed at the project, some freshmen admitted that [...]
When I was a little kid I remember seeing stories about the future in Popular Mechanics and on TV that promised we would all be flying around in personal transportation pods or flying cars. Now that the future is here (it is here, isn’t it?) we’re still stuck with these ground-based, wheeled vehicles that only [...]
My previous high-tech job was the pits. I couldn’t stand doing it and it made me physically and mentally ill. Had I known about this scheme I would have stayed on and paid someone else to do the icky, repetitive stuff and saved the remaining 4% (the “fun” parts) for myself. My voicemail message would [...]
As you probably know I have a registered domain name. (It’s printed on this page several times — you figure it out.) Anyway, occasionally I get an email from parties interested in linking to my site and, after blacklisting their address, I go on with my life as if nothing happened. Usually this mail comes [...]
Many years ago (when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was in my early twenties) I remember telling people that there were three things I would never do:
I would never own a cell phone. Cell phones in the eighties were expensive and, frankly, status symbols. If you could afford one of those things and didn’t [...]
Thanks mostly to a tip from one of my peeps (shoutz out 2 Gordon out on da West side), it has come to my attention that Taiwan will finally receive its first Mr. Donut franchise. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been in Taiwan and haven’t been able to find a decent donut [...]
TT and I witnessed the marriage of Cory and Anne this afternoon. We don’t know them, we crashed the party. …just kidding. Cory and I have known each other for quite a number of years going back to our Sequent days. Congratulations to the new couple!
Adding to our previous installment on our youngest dog’s obsession with whatever it was that had crawled under the deck… It would seem that the culprit was a squirrel. I saw it, they saw it and chased it to the tool shed in our back yard. The squirrel made its way safely up the fence [...]
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Yet another WIRED.com article to share. (Notice how I seem to get all of my news from WIRED? I subscribe to the print version, look at the pretty pictures and then read the thing online.) It seems that scientists have discovered that if they block dopamine receptors in the brains of rhesus monkeys [...]
