Archive for September, 2011
My copies of MIT TR:SF just arrived
September 30th 2011 at 2:14 pm
Wow, this is just an amazing crew to be amongst, and to be in the Technology Review is just amazingly cool. You can get copies for yourself on Oct. 4th on newsstands, or you can get them via the site here.
Frustration is a feature, not a bug, in democracy
September 30th 2011 at 9:23 am
This post by FiveThirtyEight kind of saddened me, about the willingness of Americans to give up on electing/voting in favor of experts who are just appointed. I remember speaking to a class of new college students who insisted that George W. Bush had been appointed to lead the US by god himself, and I asked [...]
Google and home solar
September 29th 2011 at 3:56 pm
A while back I pointed out that solar PV costs per Kwh had hit the point where in sunny areas with high electricity costs, like the USVI, they were life-time price competitive: More interestingly, in the USVI, where I spent my high school years, the cost of electricity is $.298 per kwh, which puts the [...]
China launches spacelab-like mini-space station
September 29th 2011 at 3:01 pm
China just launched a small space module, which they’ll use to dock and temporarily house short term astronauts as they build up their program. For a very long and detailed look at what just went up, check out this NASA Spaceflight post about it.
A Kickstarter Discussion with Mary Anne Mohanraj
September 29th 2011 at 1:18 pm
This is the first part of a two part conversation with author Mary Anne Mohanraj about Kickstarter and our writing. Part one starts here, and the second part is on her blog. The link to part two will be at the bottom of this one… Tobias: I’ve known Mary Anne since I watched her engage [...]
This. Is a generic TV news piece
September 28th 2011 at 2:24 pm
This cracked me up (snagged via Monte Cook’s G+). Cracked me up because it is dead accurate:
I’m feeling biblical today: what does it say about taxes and stimulus?
September 28th 2011 at 8:49 am
Funny that no Christian leaders seem to be hammering Genisis 41 these days: 17Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile, 18when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds. 19After them, seven other cows came [...]
7-year old’s analysis of Starfire reboot
September 27th 2011 at 12:10 pm
This 7-year old’s analysis [if that link is down, it's also been moved over to io9] of the Starfire reboot get’s right to the point: “Is this new Starfire someone you’d want to be when you grow up?” *she gets uncomfortable again*”Not really. I mean, grown ups can wear what they want, but…she’s not doing [...]
Apparently people making most of the money are paying most of the taxes
September 26th 2011 at 11:00 am
Over at BoingBoing a link to a demonstration about why the fact that the top 10% of America should get more breaks because OMG they pay for 70% of taxes is sort of a dumb argument… This is apparently being used in conservative talk radio and TV, according to the BoingBoing link I saw, to [...]
Science!
September 24th 2011 at 11:19 am
From a tweet about the faster-than-light discoveries at CERN: open data: @cern team will put faster-than-light-neutrino results online to allow other physicists to inspect and confirm/refute findings That’s that amazing side of science I love so much: here, we may be wrong, here’s how to repeat our test and see if you can replicate our [...]
