Archives for March 2, 2008
Tokyo Suburb Taken Over by Robots. Is your neighborhood next?
Posted by Greg Laden on March 2, 2008 Japan Looks to a Robot Future from PhysOrg.com (AP) — At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust. [...]
Brain Transplant
Posted by Greg Laden on March 2, 2008 The blog Omni Brain and the blog Retrospectacle have merged into one massive, extra smart blog called “Of Two Minds.” As of Monday.
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Posted by Greg Laden on March 2, 2008 Drumroll…….
Blogotechnospherics
Posted by Greg Laden on March 2, 2008 Reed Cartwright has two neat current posts that may be of interest to the blog nerd. One is on how to render equations with Imagemagick. This technique uses LaTeX to start with and ends up with a picture you can put on a blog post. The other is on hiding email addresses from robots with…
Sunday Script-Yours
Posted by Greg Laden on March 2, 2008 What is your favorite scripting language? (I don’t think I can do polls on this site … but if you click on this picture of a poll, you can go to that site and take the poll)
Behold The Vampire Squid
Posted by Greg Laden on March 2, 2008 Normally, I keep my blog away from Squid and other cephalopods because I know that if PZ myers feels threatened, he may charge, and the squiggly molluscs are his bailiwick. But, this evening at the Laden household analog of the dinner table, the question came up: “How many species of cephalopods are there, anyway? Huh?”…
The World’s Smartest Conservative Was a Dope
Posted by Greg Laden on March 2, 2008 Right, I know, he just died so we have to pretend we did not loath him for a least two weeks. But I have the sense that William Buckley would not give me that courtesy, so forget that. I am reminded that Buckley is often quoted as having said words to these effect: I would…
Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin
Posted by Greg Laden on March 2, 2008 Common Sense Tells us to try this drug: Thank You British NHS. We needed th is.
Venezuela seems poised to invade Columbia
Posted by Greg Laden on March 2, 2008 Holy crap, where did this come from? Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is sending thousands of troops and tanks to the border with Colombia, marking a sharp escalation in regional tensions. Speaking on his weekly television show, President Chavez also said Venezuela’s embassy in Colombia would close. Mr Chavez said he was reacting to the “cowardly…
Atheistic Ally of Science TUIBG on The Nature of Blogging
Posted by Greg Laden on March 2, 2008 Even though TUIB guy mysteriously fails to link to me (causing me to miss his post because it did not show up in my link detecting system), I want to point out this well done rant on the recent BlaBlaBlaBlog Flap: I would say they are being disingenuous in dissing the bloggers who get a…
Murdered 15 year old deserved what he got
Posted by Greg Laden on March 2, 2008 … according to mainstream Christian leaders. This is about Larry King, who was fatally shot in the head on February 12 in a classroom. Larry was murdered by his classmate, Brandon McInerney. It appears that Brandon shot Larry because Larry was openly gay and a transvestite.
Inky Squids vs. Dark Matter
Posted by Greg Laden on March 2, 2008 It is your choice. Squids vs. Dark Matter. Like this: (Squid is on the left, dark matter on the right) Here is what you need to do:
What Is This Blog?
Posted by Greg Laden on March 2, 2008 Chris Rowan has blogged his navel … his introspective thoughts regarding both his own blogging and his place in scienceblogs.com and scienceblogs.com’s place in the world, and so on. One thing Chris did is to list out his most read posts, in an effort to try to understand where (in thinkspace) he and his readers…
Readers Choice Awards
Posted by Greg Laden on March 2, 2008 Well, sort of. The following are two lists of the most commonly read posts on this site, with oddities and chaff (timely posts, ephemera) removed. This is is what you, dear collective readership, have focused on here on this blog:
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