By Reuser | Published:
May 27, 2010
Obama’s News Conference on the Oil Spill
Read this.
By Reuser | Published:
April 15, 2010
President Obama mandated Thursday that nearly all hospitals extend visitation rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians and respect patients’ choices about who may make critical health-care decisions for them, perhaps the most significant step so far in his efforts to expand the rights of gay Americans.
Obama orders same-sex [...]
By Reuser | Published:
April 14, 2010
And The Answer To One Of Cryptography’s Mysteries Is . . . 42 – Physics – io9.
Generating truly random numbers is notoriously difficult. But now, using a quantum system, researchers have managed to create 42 genuinely random numbers. Their discovery is a major breakthrough for cryptography, and could one day enable truly [...]
By Reuser | Published:
April 14, 2010
Fuck you, Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice.
Fuck you.
Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It’s a Very Bad Idea .
Really? “Reliable projections”? “Action in real time”? “Preventing criminal activities”? I don’t know about how reliable your system is, IBM, but have you ever heard of the 5th, the 6th, and the 14th [...]
By Reuser | Published:
April 13, 2010
Segways used for sniper target practice | The Firearm Blog.
Right on! A good blog, to boot.
By Reuser | Published:
April 13, 2010
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, “Clinging to nuclear weapons in excess of our security needs does not make the United States safer. … And the nuclear status quo is neither desirable nor sustainable.”
via Will Obama End the Nuclear Era? – Page 1 – The Daily Beast.
Yet despite this, and other treaties, such as the [...]
By Reuser | Published:
April 7, 2010
“If the Department of Defense can’t figure out a way to defend the United States on a budget of more than a half a trillion dollars a year, then our problems are much bigger than anything that can be cured by buying a few more ships and planes…” -Defense Secretary Robert Gates
Required reading for Americans.
By Reuser | Published:
March 28, 2010
Op-Ed Columnist – The Rage Is Not About Health Care – NYTimes.com.
Spot on.
By Reuser | Published:
March 25, 2010
FORA.tv – Hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage Talk “MythBusters”.
Awesome panel about mythbusters, arming robots, etc. Worth the hour if you are interested in the show.
By Reuser | Published:
March 23, 2010
“Dear Conservative Americans,
The years have not been kind to you. I grew up in a profoundly Republican home, so I can remember when you wore a very different face than the one we see now. You’ve lost me and you’ve lost most of America. Because I believe having responsible choices is important [...]
By Reuser | Published:
March 23, 2010
Real patriots believe in the principles of America – St. Petersburg Times.
Damn straight, Robyn.
By Reuser | Published:
March 22, 2010
Princeton University – A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain.
Can we end the American corn monoculture, as propped up by Federal subsidies now?
By Reuser | Published:
March 21, 2010
Fearless to the end: Remembering Margaret Moth
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By Reuser | Published:
March 21, 2010
YouTube – The Silver Fox experiment.
“What fifty generations of silver foxes being domesticated and bred against aggressive traits has revealed to us about the long history of the domestic dog and why there is such a huge variety in traits in the various dog breeds.”
I love you, crazy Russian scientist woman! [...]
Posted in Biology, Science |
By Reuser | Published:
March 15, 2010
What Obama Stands For – by a “conservative” writing for a “liberal” rag… Still, very indicative about how those very characterizations are starting to break down.
By Reuser | Published:
March 13, 2010
Keillor: Unreality is the current reality. Well worth the read, no matter what side of the aisle you are on. (Which is an absurd characterization, period.)
Or should be. Americans are increasingly treating their politics as a zero-sum game, like sports teams.
By Reuser | Published:
March 1, 2010
“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..
By Reuser | Published:
March 1, 2010
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.
By Reuser | Published:
March 1, 2010
Antarctica Yields Relics of a Dwarf Planet from Creation of Solar System.
Awesome.
By Reuser | Published:
February 25, 2010
Tech Support. It’s always been like this!
Posted in Comedy, Videos |
By Reuser | Published:
February 25, 2010
Eron may actually get his lifelong dream to power my garbage disposal: Nanotech May Tap Into Your Mind
By Reuser | Published:
February 6, 2010
Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything.
By Reuser | Published:
February 6, 2010
YouTube – Flash Gordon. Approaching, and alive.
Posted in Movies, Videos |
By Reuser | Published:
February 1, 2010
About updating the weblog.
Really.
By Reuser | Published:
February 1, 2010
Fantastic payoff for years of sustained research, and demonstrated excellence in the field. Looking forward to seeing this everywhere soon. Retrofit the R?
Rabiei’s invention isn’t the first metal foam, but she says it’s the strongest. The main weakness of existing metal foams is the varying sizes of their cells — tiny pockets of space inside [...]