Science, Technology, and Cyberspace Links JD 2454420
Friday, November 16th, 2007
I was charcoal on ideonexus beta, but I’m still feeling whole hog here at ideonexus on the Blogger Burnout Advisory System.
A very disturbing story about a cruel hoax on myspace that prompted a 13-year-old girl to commit suicide, and was perpetrated by a parent. I’ve gotten over my momentary outrage at the adults, who are as cruel as children and deserve our ire, and have moved on to thinking this is a warning to other parents to teach their kids that the Internet is not realInternet is not truth, and if you commit suicide “the other kids will make jokes about you,” to quote Matt Groening.
Friday! FRIDAY!! FRIDAY!!! It’s the clash of the titans as WWII Colossus computer and a modern PC go head-to-head no-holds-barred anything-goes race to determine which system can crack Nazi Codes faster!!! ROAAARRRR!!!
Monkey! MONKEY!! MONKEY!!! Scientists Clone Monkeys!!! ROAAARRR!!!
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The humanities merge with science in an Oracle deck based on the Periodic Table of the Elements.
Hollywood numbnuts populated the animated film Barnyard with male cows and now Bee Movie with male worker bees, Natalie Angier covers the much more fascinating drama of insect hives.
Robotic versions of the pests have shown that Cockroaches Respond to Peer Pressure. So let’s get the robots jumpin offa bridges all ready!
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