That Bill Maher interview with JFK Jr. was so strange.

Good. Now facebook has some extra data metrics...

I heard google abandoned the project because it was too computationally difficult. Palin words have multiple meanings and they change retroactively.

Google Nexus Talkman

That whole speech from Mr. Robot about how his father was a thief is straight out of The Smartest Guys in the Room. The executives (and traders) at Enron knew they were breaking the law but felt justified since the law couldn’t catch them. They “deserved the reward” because they were smart enough to “figure out” (i.e.…

Yeah, the CC company plot still kind of bothers me, but it’s almost like they’re continuing where Fight Club left off and this will get into how dystopia develops.

Shit, I didn’t know that! Well, now I don’t feel bad about seeing the similarity.

Just watched it!

Good point. So all science is conjecture and boots on the ground will remove any uncertainty from the equation.

Geology is out of my research area, but computational modelling is not so I’ll speculate a bit. It’s likely all the climate and geological models were developed using the Earth as a “template”. When the model is established, you can then substitute known Mars values for known Earth ones and these should be values…

For a different perspective, check out the Huygens landing on Titan.

Holy hell, yeah, the inkjets suck. We have an HP laserjet at work and it’s been running nonstop for about 4 years now without issue. Now I don’t have a large sample size, so maybe most laserjets are at least this good, but the HP has been pretty solid. For the other devices they made, they were just plagued by…

Is the answer “radiation” and “zero gravity”?

Are we just going to ignore the fact that this does nothing to help grip strength? So it’s just supposed to help you lift things you can already lift?

Anything HP, really. Well, I guess they have solid printers.

Esther, do you have a reference for the “visual cortex” = “seeing stars” thing? I’m sure stimulation of the visual cortex can lead to something (hallucinations, etc.), but I was under the impression that photoreceptors in the retina were responsible for “seeing stars” because, like all things biochemical, changes in…

Hmm...if we’re sticking with the current “low-ass-bridge” design, how about hanging a series of signs at the same height as the bridge (or just a bit lower) every 10 feet leading from that street light up to the front of the bridge. Then put a GIANT billboard on the side of the road in front of the entrance that says,…

OMG, awesome gif! I love Karen O.