State laws regarding non-firearm weapons are a nightmare to interpret. They are usually pretty vague by design (used to amp up charges against people stopped for other crimes) and whatever you can get away with is usually left up to legal precedent. Ultimately state weapons law are kind of HILARIOUS due to the lack…

@JohnnyQuine:

@howdini: Thank the flying spaghetti monster for PZ chiming in on this one.

That's awesome. What a cool clock.

The RIAA needs to get with it start to think about all of the money they've wasted fighting technology and all the money they've missed out on by not embracing it for what it is. They are the epitome of the negative rich old white robber barron stereotype. I'll bet they have a headquarters on a plantation. They…

@Hello Mister Walrus: Maybe YOU have to live with regular mashed potatoes.

This looks a lot like a star trek sickbay.

I LOVE how artists are using the arduino and other decently sophisticated level tech as medium.

@Jack McCauley -We are all but stardust, floating through infinity-:

That old lady has been in the bathroom for a long time. She's clearly up to no good.

I actually played with the prior version of this camera quite a bit.

@Namarrgon: I have read Kurzweil. Ben Goertzel too. I needed to in order to understand where the wrong perceptions of AI were coming from for a comprehensive government review on the state of the science that me and 4 other guys in my group were commissioned to conduct.

Utterly magnificent!

flops != neurons

@wjbean: I'm thinking the reason why uniform spacing doesn't look as good has something to do with the spatial distribution of the photoreceptors in our eyes and some kind of aliasing, or maybe a diffraction phenomenon.

@wjbean: I think the non-uniformity is why it is easy on the eyes. pretty cool. If they could make color screens with the same kind of randomness in them they would look amazing.

@mtfmuffins: It's a secret... but not because it was profound or unique, because it was really cheesy looking back on it!

I'm assuming this is performance art. Neat.

One time for a girlfriend I shrunk down a picture of us and a message, converted it to a raster dot image and lithographically etched it into gold-chrome on a microscope slide. I planted it in her lab on her 'scope.

@willyolio: metal chopsticks