The fact that this administration has gone back and pardoned it itself for any war crimes in the past. They’re bailing out the risky lenders who are causing the sub prime crash due to their ridiculousness, they did manage to get rich though. Oh, and the phone companies are being given amnesty for [...]
To go along with yesterdays find about sensory deprivation, here’s a link from Best Free Documentaries: BBC Horizon: Total Isolation about a similar if not the same experiment. I haven’t watched it myself, but I’ll comment when I do.
The BBC has an article about sensory deprivation. The experiment and anecdotes related by the people involved are quite interesting. They talk about hallucinations and sensing people in the rooms. Sounds like this research might be able to give us more insight into the feeling of ghosts and maybe out of body [...]
This could only play in Britian. That’s unfortunate because it’s hysterical.
Here is an interesting engine concept that is making the rounds lately. The Brickley Engine Configuration, 15-20% Increase in Fuel Efficency, 15-20% Decrease in CO2 Emissions is the promise of the engine, I’m not sure if it’s in practice yet. It’s a very interesting configuration and looks to be a promising engine concept. [...]
I’m thoroughly of the opinion that Java as a language for students that are studying computer science is a bad idea. Maybe it’s good to learn and explore it, but that should be accompanied by rigorous study of lower level languages and algorithms. I think one should leave the Java to the chemists [...]
Congress is entertaining a lobby from the RIAA to pass a bill that would tie federal college funding to universities hunting down digital pirates. Now, let’s not forget that it’s not the job of congress to shill for the corporate scum bags at the RIAA or any other corporation. Let’s put aside the [...]
It seems that Dubai is not just happy creating it’s own islands. Islands that are shaped like anything under the sun. They are also going to put a proposal to build the largest skyscraper. So much larger than anything that exists. Next Big Future: Tallest Skyscrapers review and proposed has the [...]
I just read a post over at Bad astronomy blog. It’s about a japanese blog that claims to have found a man in one of the spirit mars pictures. Here is the original post Bad Astronomy Blog » Speaking of dumb Mars claims…. While the claims themselves are laughable, I think one [...]
Along with the previous post about readable laws. I found this interesting website as well. SHARP Network is a site to catalog wiki style the positions and statements of presidential and eventually local candidates on scientific issues. The goal is to at a glance be able to determine a candidates position on [...]