Archive for November 12th, 2007

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One Laptop Per Child Now On Sale!!!

Monday, November 12th, 2007
OLPC Logo
OLPC Logo

I’ve ordered mine, have you ordered your’s? All the cool kids are ordering one. Don’t you want to be part of the “in” crowd?

Not only does ordering one of these super-duper, ultra-nifty, best-thing-since-sliced-bread-cubed improve your health, fortunes, and make you more appealing to members of the opposite sex in general, but every laptop you buy for $399 means that a needy child in third-world country will get one too!

And then you can both go online and play deathmatch! Deathmatch!! DEATHMATCH!!!

I can’t wait to start pwning kids living in refugee camps around the world in Ethiopia, Rawanda, and Darfur at Quake while chowing-down on bean burritos in the comfort of my climate-controlled modern home. It’s gonna be Total ownage!

I’m already working on my snappy one-liners:

“Whaddya pause to wind up your laptop?”

“Hey! Whydontcha go farm some gold for me?”

“You’re so poor, you can’t even pay attention! Cause… you know… You’re all worried about clean water, and food, and all that genocide and stuff… Nevermind.”

Third World is Pwwned!
Third World is Pwwned!
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Science, Technology, and Oddities Links JD 2454416.70833

Monday, November 12th, 2007
SELENE HD Moon Images
SELENE HD Moon Images
  • SELENE has returned High Definition Images of the Moon, and they’ve got a movie of flying over the moon also—somebody IMAX this.
  • Feral Robotic Dogs used to bring media attention to polluted areas, robotic geese that allow humans to get up close and personal to the real ones, fish sensor array that signals people to feed the fish… check out the fantastic engineering projects of Natalie Jeremijenko.
  • UPDATE: The 2007 weblog awards have announced a tie between Bad Astronomy and Climate Audit. Commentary on the two blogs has been admirably collegiate during this trying time… Phil Plait and Steve McIntyre are dork-butts.
  • Hi-Res Creature
    Hi-Res Creature
  • In related news a fake paper refuting “manmade global warming theory” became the darling of Rush Limbaugh and other Climate Change skeptics until the ruse was revealed. The journal of Nature has an interview with the author, who admits he wrote the paper to show Global Warming Skeptics “will believe almost anything if it lends support to their position.”
  • Beware! The United Nations warns, Ban human clones or expect them soon.
  • Begging for LOLCatdom: Hi-Res Creature.