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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
By offering their new album, In Rainbows online for whatever people want to pay for it (because they’ll make more money than what the record companies pay them), Radiohead once again proves they get it. Related news, in addition to crappy CD sales (go figure, people prefer to buy singles), the RIAA is losing money on it lawsuit campaign.
An asteroid located between Mars and Jupiter has been renamed 7307 Takei in honour of actor George Takei, who played Sulu on Star Trek and was the outrageously hilarious highlight of William Shatner’s roast.
Scientist invents computer pillow to stop snoring. The pillow detects the sounds of snoring and readjusts your head until the snoring stops. One day, when the robots revolt, these pillows will be the first wave of attack, smothering us in our sleep. Just wait. You heard it here first.
Here’s an interesting experiment in evolution. Mutating Pictures presents users with several images, asking them to rank how much the images resemble people, animals, etc. The selected images are then crossbred with each other and another set produced. Will this eventually produce faces? Wait and see.
Does This Look Like and Animal?
After the Library of Congress dissed bloggers who were outraged that the federal institution was charging an $86,625 subscription fee for access to its copyright database, public.resource.org posted the whole thing online for free. The old hacker saying remains true, Information wants to be free.
Cockroaches Are Not Morning People. Apparently it’s harder to train them in the morning then at night. I expect this to revolutionize profession of flea wrangling for the circus.
Yuck and Double Yuck. Biologists aim to wipe out Alaska’s “Rat Island.”
David Brin talked about alien species of plants that networked to support one another in his book, The Uplift War, but it turns out Plants really do Network to “Message” one another.
Ohhhhh…. Ahhhhh… Check out the 2007 Visualization Challenge Winners.
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Does This Look Like and Animal? |
