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Kiss Your Freedoms Goodbye If Health Care Passes

Administration — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:10:44 +0000

Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn’t care about the Constitution, it doesn’t care about your inalienable rights. If this health care bill becomes law, America, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it and privacy as you have enjoyed it will cease to be. Tomorrow, the House of Representatives [...]

HOWTO: Wire your house with ethernet cable

Administration — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:08:28 +0000

You’ve ripped a movie on your laptop, and now want it on that fancy new home theater PC next to your TV. If you’ve got the time, wiring your house with Cat-5e cable could make transfer times a distant memory. Instrucables user Rogue Agent gets into the nuts, bolts, studs, and boxes needed to wire a [...]

HOWTO: Build a home server in a whisky bottle

Administration — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:33:30 +0000

Jason Marton was looking for a quieter, hidden home server. So, naturally, he built one into a whisky bottle that blends in with his existing dry bar. Over at hack weblog MetkuMods, Jason Marton explains how he created a personal PC or home server inside of a discarded and (obviously) empty whisky bottle. Although it isn’t [...]

Love of Shopping is Not a Gene: exposing junk science and ideology in Darwinian Psychology

Administration — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:51:53 +0000

Anne Innis Dagg’s “Love of Shopping” is Not a Gene is a scathing, entertaining and extremely accessible geneticist’s critique of “Darwinian Psychology” — that is, the “science” of ascribing human behavior to genetic inevitability. Dagg, a biologist/geneticist at the University of Waterloo, identifies Darwinian Psychology as a nexus of ideological pseudoscience cooked to justify political [...]

Satellite photography alphabet

Administration — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:53:03 +0000

The Google Earth Alphabet has upper and lower case and numbers and punctuation formed inadvertently by geographic features visible from space. I’ve always thought this stuff was cool, from my earliest “Sesame Street” days. There’s something very appealing about letters and numbers formed in structures, et cetera. Upper case | Lower case | Numbers and punctuation

Lexus LF-A gauge cluster

Administration — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:04:30 +0000

Planet Earth: Complete BBC Series on Blu-ray for $32 shipped

Administration — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:50:02 +0000

Amazon.co.uk offers the Planet Earth: Complete BBC Series on Blu-ray for £17.98. At checkout, it falls to £15.63 ($26.57). With £3.08 ($5.24) for shipping, it’s $11 under our October mention and the lowest total price we could find for this version of the show by $12. This set includes all five episodes from the original [...]

“Get High Now” author interviewed on Expanding Mind podcast

Administration — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:50:13 +0000

My favorite podcast as of late is Erik Davis’ Expanding Mind, which covers the realm of human consciousness. In previous podcasts Erik has talked with guests about neuro technologies, ceremonial magic, secret societies, underground comics, grass-roots science, hedonic circuits, and supernatural pop culture. In the latest episode, Erik spoke with James Nestor, author of Get High [...]

The history of the IMG tag

Administration — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:37:07 +0000

Mark Pilgrim traces the history of the humble IMG tag and the heated discussion that ensued when graphics were added to the web: I’d like to propose a new, optional HTML tag:IMG Required argument is SRC=”url”. This names a bitmap or pixmap file for the browser to attempt to pull over the network and interpret as an image, [...]

Ron Paul: “Be prepared for the worst”

Administration — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:31:15 +0000

Any number of pundits claim that we have now passed the worst of the recession. Green shoots of recovery are supposedly popping up all around the country, and the economy is expected to resume growing soon at an annual rate of 3% to 4%. Many of these are the same people who insisted that the [...]