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WOW Reality TV, and other geek shows
An awesome collection of potential reality television shows, with and eye towards the geek audience. This is my personal favorite.
Alliance of Love
Seven lovely night elves and one reasonably cute female gnome compete for the attentions of one lonely geek on World of Warcraft. The catch? Only one of the "girls" is actually played by a female! If he chooses correctly, he'll have a girlfriend he can game with. If he doesn't, he'd better have decent cybersex skills and a powerful imagination. In the top-rated episode, Barry and "Lithinara" bond over the corpses of about a hundred Bristleback Quillboars, only to have Barry's hopes dashed when Lithinara says, "brb, got 2 drain the lizard."
By The Professor at Feb 28 2007 - 1:46pm | funny | television | tv | wow | read more | Visit WOW Reality TV, and other geek shows
Noam Chomsky and Robert Trivers video
From Seed:
In the 1970s, a Harvard class taught by evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers ignited a controversy that would escalate into the "sociobiology wars." His papers provided a Darwinian basis for understanding complex human activities and relationships. Across town at MIT, revolutionary linguist Noam Chomsky had earned a reputation as a leading opponent of the Vietnam War. Throughout those pivotal years, and in the following decades, the two explored similar ideas from different perspectives. Long aware of each other's work, they had never met until a couple of months ago, when they sat down to compare notes on some common interests: deceit and self-deception.
There is also a full transcript.
By The Professor at Sep 6 2006 - 11:19am | politics | read more | Visit Noam Chomsky and Robert Trivers video
Finally! Encryption for webmail
This is long overdue. Freenigma uses GPG to encrypt email for Hotmail/Gmail/Yahoo/etc right in the web browser, so un-encrypted messages never travel in plain text. Best of all, plain text emails are not stored by the webmail giants for later leakage to the NSA.
Space Colony Art from the 1970s
A couple of space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. These have been converted to jpegs and are available as thumbnails, quarter page, full screen and publication quality images.
By The Professor at Aug 10 2006 - 9:01pm | space | read more | Visit Space Colony Art from the 1970s
Tall Bikes!
Very tall bikes.
Sharpest man-made thing
The small round features are individual atoms.
By The Professor at Aug 10 2006 - 3:17pm | physics | read more | login or register to post comments | Visit Sharpest man-made thing
What if NASA's predictions had come true?
1984 Commercial shuttle flights begin, using privately-built spacecraft. Those in coach are defibrillated for peeking through the curtain to first class.
By The Professor at May 15 2006 - 9:22pm | space | read more | Visit What if NASA's predictions had come true?
Dr. Seuss explains Network Neutrality
When Ed Whitacre, the head of AT&T
Says, "They're not gonna use my pipes for free"
He's not talking about "them," he's talking about me.
He's talking about us, it should be plain to see.
Says, "They're not gonna use my pipes for free"
He's not talking about "them," he's talking about me.
He's talking about us, it should be plain to see.
Cause when Whitacre says "free" he's not talking about beer,
It's our Freedom of Speech that's at stake here . . .
By The Professor at May 11 2006 - 2:06pm | web | read more | Visit Dr. Seuss explains Network Neutrality
What to do in a terrorist attack
Houston Coalition for Justice Not War provides more realistic advice than Mr. T. Ridge.
By jhedstrom at Mar 29 2003 - 12:00am | funny | war | web | read more | Visit What to do in a terrorist attack
Bush or Chimp?
I originally found this by typing
into google, and it came up as the first site...
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Daily Cupcake 'O Justice
America has tripled its prison population in the last 15 years. That is a necessary and effective role of government.
