April 20, 2008

Does worldwide rioting for food hurt the Obama campaign?

This question --as well as more about LapelGate-- answered after these important messages:

Living the Blues

Desolation Row

Highway 61

(sound is a bit harsh)

I'm joking, of course it hurts both Obama and Hillary, however the Food Riots are proving to be good news for the Giuliani campaign. Next up, the weather, and then we ask our panel whether John McCain should pick Dr. Phil or Pope Benedict as his running mate.

April 19, 2008

Das Rad (The Wheel)

Quite good German animated film (don't worry it has English subtitles)

April 17, 2008

A Treasury of Microsoft Promo Shame

The most recent, the Vista SP1 promo ...

MS-DOS 5.0 ... I just don't know what to say ....

Windows 386:: This one gets ... odd about 1:10 in ...

Update: The world's 1st Cyber Sitcom ... Win95, Matthew Perry & Jennifer Aniston. It makes a grown man cry ...

April 16, 2008

Break on through to the other side

I'm not much for games, but this may be the most amazing video game implementation ever ... I know it looks like a Super Mario-like game but stick with it, it's very very different.

Here's an article about the technology behind it.

Also: Carl Sagan explains dimensions using Flatland

April 14, 2008

Instapundit Agonistes (or Do Law Professors Dream of Electric Sheep?)

Via Sadly No, I heard that The Ole Perfesser got a new book:
IN THE MAIL: David Levy's Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships, No doubt this will set off a storm among the narrow-minded robophobes out there. Stand up to the haters!

Hey, whatever turns your crank! It just put me in mind of the great British series Black Books:

Update: "Are We Giving The Robots That Run Our Society Too Much Power?"

April 03, 2008

I guess he prefers aliens that don't speak Spanish

Science Fiction Mavens Offer Far Out Homeland Security Advice, via Thought Palace

Niven said a good way to help hospitals stem financial losses is to spread rumors in Spanish within the Latino community that emergency rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for transplants.

"The problem [of hospitals going broke] is hugely exaggerated by illegal aliens who aren’t going to pay for anything anyway," Niven said.

"Do you know how politically incorrect you are?" Pournelle asked.

“I know it may not be possible to use this solution, but it does work,” Niven replied.

We now know the answer to the question: "How politically incorrect do you have to be to have Jerry Pournelle say, 'Do you know how politically incorrect you are?'"

Sci-fi authors saying bigoted or stupid stuff is nothing new, heck it's practically a requirement ... but when Larry went off on his ... uhm ... tangent he was speaking on a panel on the topic "Empowering Citizens with Mobile Phone Technology".

Huh ...

April 02, 2008

Oh Danny Boy oh danny oh boy ...

Yeah so it's late, but this one goes out to all the Micks and Paddys out there ...

Update: Who's the greatest fuckin' drummer in the world? (I mean, besides Gene Krupa ...)

Smkruparich

Update: Krupa, Rich and Sammy Davis Jr.

April 01, 2008

I always said you'd be sorry and Today could be the day

Please Madre de Dios, please let this be an April Fools joke. It's not that I respect morning news shows (or evening ones either), it's that after a while it stops being funny and just becomes really sad.