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This is so dumb I don’t know why I’m bothering…

“Deal With Homosexuality Like We Deal With Drug Abuse…”
Because the way we deal with drug abuse is working so well???

“Intravenous drug use can spread HIV;
Gay male sex can spread HIV;
Intravenous drug use is illegal;
Therefore gay male sex should be illegal.”

By this logic, heterosexual sex and [...]

The AJAX game Sternhalma (which the original name of Chinese Checkers) is back online again. My brother and I built this ages ago. We have more work to do on it to make it multiplayer, and we intend, in our copious free time, to port the multiplayer version to facebook, iphone, and android. It does [...]

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This is intense. I’m re-reading the article a few times to be sure I “get it.”

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Peter Murray-Rust is a chemist, a reader in molecular informatics at the University of Cambridge, and a Senior Research Fellow of Churchill College.

I’m a chemist. I’m very interested in how the enormous amount of information that’s being put on the web can be used for science. The possibilities of doing things with that information are [...]

the OBJECTIVE Highlight executive compensation (as in, how much CEOs etc. are paid) in an interesting way.

the ASSIGNMENT Create an infographic that explores how much corporate officers in this country are paid. The infographic could compare such data with related figures, like a company’s profits, stock price, or the average salary of lower-level [...]

Urban policy is generally understood to include such things as housing, neighborhood revitalization, and poverty alleviation. While all of these are important to the success of cities, even in combination they don’t come close to equaling the importance of talent to the success of cities.

Talent—defined as the percentage of college graduates in a city’s population—explains [...]

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You had me at one reason.

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Carol Channing is far more frightening in this scene from Alice in Wonderland than anything in that cheezefest Final Destination. I wonder what this movie would have been like in 3D with motioncode. Probably “much better…”

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This is the trailer for Doug Wolens’ feature documentary entitled The Singularity: Will We Survive Our Technology. Can’t wait. And I’m very excited to be attending The Singularity Summit in NYC October 3rd and 4th (http://singularitysummit.com). Anyone else planning to attend?

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Evidence of the killer red velvet cake Thairin and I just popped into the oven.

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