Category: Uncategorized

I am deeply impressed with the riches and depth of Shogun 2. I played it on Steam, and even the Demo is like huge and days of play. If you are a gamer with a penchant for battles and colourful, evocative, enhanced realism, do get into this and explore it. The graphics are, considering the…

I played some Darkspore on steam. It is a bit hysterically colourful at first but after a few levels the shape tweaking is fairly nice. It actually is an MMO. It’s quite an easy hack & slash with fascinating riches of customization. Scenery and background is a flat surface which is the typical Blizzardine maze…

Doctors are developing artificial wombs in which embryos can grow outside a woman’s body. The work has been hailed as a breakthrough in treating the childless. Scientists have created prototypes made out of cells extracted from women’s bodies. Embryos successfully attached themselves to the walls of these laboratory wombs and began to grow. However, experiments…

A private European organization has a proposal for creating 100-300 kilometer high multipurpose towers. The towers would be composed of moveable lighter-than-air rings stacked upon each other [ehhhm….balloons]. Modules would be added from the bottom up and filled with a light gas. Shuttles within the shaft could take people and payloads to the top, slowly…

Boohoo bad fat boy. And you’ll lose more unless you get of your ass. Better trade in your dollars before you lose it all.

Botgirl is sow funny.

I have the book, it’s great.

The Rev Klaas Hendrikse can offer his congregation little hope of life after death, and he’s not the sort of man to sugar the pill. An imposing figure in black robes and white clerical collar, Mr Hendrikse presides over the Sunday service at the Exodus Church in Gorinchem, central Holland. It is part of the…

..since it won’t spend a penny on anything else, right? No I am not advocating a terrorist attack. I am advocating something else entirely. Thanks Dan.

So why doesn’t the political system act?

More details on Red Versus Blue Rabbits… Today’s Topic Today’s event requires that you prepare a little. Read up, google, research, if you habven’t watch those damn prequels and for sure watch these two critiques by Red Letter Media. In essence: the Star Wars Prequels are such unspeakable storyline crap, as evidences by these detailed…

Fresh news from indonesia – after a crippled men fell on a train track and was ‘miraculously’ healed Indonesia is in a fad – sick people lie on the track in droves to benefit from “the strange electrical currents”. These people are beyond undereducated, backwards, desperate, stupid. This is the most disgusting sign Indonesia is…

Facebook and Google both maintain policies and “terms of service” agreements regarding the services they offer. In theory Google and Facebook can make any damn demands they bloody well want, and for a free service their clientèle should bloody well accept this. In Theory – however both services are already represent monopolist services of a…

I propose a law. This law is quite simple – it becomes effectively illegal (with fines) to destroy large quantities of goods, i.e. foods, consumer products or raw materials. Even if thede articles are your property, and the interpretation of ‘destruction’ should be as wide as possible. I realize such a law would be easily…

In the country where I live I see an annoyance. It is something I do not like at all, and I want it different. If I were to want to see the company service, I’ll know where to find it. Take for instance a store selling mobile phones. I will know instantaneously where I will…

Are all those libertarian transhumanists and corporate extropians or oligarchic singularitarians actually hearing this message?

This is a 5-minute spoken introduction to the Singularity I wrote for a small conference. I had to talk fast, though, so this is probably more like a 6.5 minute intro. The rise of human intelligence in its modern form reshaped the Earth. Most of the objects you see around you, like these chairs, are…

ADVANCES IN BRAIN SCIENCE ARE CALLING INTO QUESTION THE VOLITION BEHIND MANY CRIMINAL ACTS. A LEADING NEUROSCIENTIST DESCRIBES HOW THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR CRIMINAL-JUSTICE SYSTEM ARE BEGINNING TO CRUMBLE, AND PROPOSES A NEW WAY FORWARD FOR LAW AND ORDER. By David Eagleman ON THE STEAMY first day of August 1966, Charles Whitman took an elevator…

Quoted Reality as a failed state So maybe what we have today are not problems, but meta-problems. It is very useful to confirm our understanding with others, to meet with fellow humans – preferably face-to-face – strength flows from this. However, disquiet remains – no pre-catastrophic change of course seems in any way likely. What…

Next week.

A scene from dollhouse episode 6 – a ‘cinematic scientist guy‘ (with black board with interesting sciencey terms and images behind him) asks a poignant question – once ‘certain’ technologies reach the high water mark and flood into the empty valley that is the yet unchallenged human ‘sacred‘ – this notion we have some kind…

They took the effort answering one of my most awkward questions on live TV. The program was “kijker aan Z” … Notice one commentator verifiably squirming and sweating. How should Europe prepare if the US crashes like the Hindenburg? Starts at 4:30. Jay! My 17 seconds of fame for today. My full question was a…