“All this means that in a very real sense, the industrial barons of EVE who made their fortunes mining virtual asteroids and moons are turning their virtual wealth into physical life-saving supplies in Haiti.
Truly, we live in strange times.”
via EVE ISK for Haiti..
Somebody announces that he's built a large quantum computer. RSA is dead. DSA is dead. Elliptic curves, hyperelliptic curves, class groups, whatever, dead, dead, dead. So users are going to run around screaming and say 'Oh my God, what do we do?
via Introduction.
Eron may actually get his lifelong dream to power my garbage disposal: Nanotech May Tap Into Your Mind
YouTube – Flash Gordon. Approaching, and alive.
http://onehungrychef.blogspot.com is very good reading!
In a Massively post, CCP outlines their plan for console gamers: Dust 514, wherein console mercs kill each other on planets for the amusement and strategy of their pod pilot overlords.
Scientology: The truth rundown
Worth a read, by the Scientologists’ home town paper. Just go ahead and read Mission:Earth and tell me Hubbard was not at least a little clinical == daft as a hatter.
Read.
FRONTLINE: poisoned waters: introduction | PBS. – watch the whole two hours before you condemn. It gets through, inexorably to a quality point.
Wake up, people!
Bob Graham talks turkey about intelligence:
“The unanimous conclusion of our nine members, Republicans and Democrats, was that it is more likely than not that such a weapon will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere before year-end 2013. “
The Greatest Floridian. Good read.
Gravity Probe B is about awesome…
“Imagine a snowflake, which has a fraction of a gram, slowly falling down on to the deck of a supertanker. The acceleration that the supertanker experiences from that snowflake is comparable to the sensitivity of our instrument,” he told BBC News.
Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | Video on TED.com.
Just watch it. It’s amazing. Watch it all the way through.
Here.
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