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Month: July 2008

  • Rush Limbaugh Admires Chinese Gasoline Subsidies

    How about this for Conservatism? See, the ChiComs need their economy growing. They need people driving around, moving around. They need people to be able to afford fuel, so they’re subsidizing fuel. They’re not bailing people out of stupid home mortgage messes. They’re buying their gasoline for them, because they need an economy. Know what…

  • Ideonexus’ Futurism Scorecard

    “Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.” – M. King Hubbert I’m going on five years of blogging now, which gives me enough material to go back and grade my own aptitude at prediction. My favorite bit of personal futurism was my article, Bring on the High Gas…

  • Cyborgs, We?

    Cybernetic Interface Credit: _MaO_ The American Heritage Dictionary defines a cyborg as, “A human who has certain physiological processes aided or controlled by mechanical or electronic devices.” Under this definition, people who wear glasses, hearing aides, and even drive cars are cyborgs. With physiological defined as “consistent with the normal functioning of an organism,” we…

  • Drill for Oil to Fight Gas Prices

    Oil Derrick with Statues Kneeling Before It Credit: skampy Back in 2003, politicians told us the Iraq invasion would pay for itself with all the oil the country would produce, so much so that US Forces allowed looters to ransack three major Iraqi cultural institutions in Baghdad because they had to concentrate on protecting the…

  • I’ve Been Hacked by the Iranians!

    My pretty-much dead website waygate.com (which I’m not linking to because it’s got malware right now), where I was keeping an ever-expanding list of science links, hasn’t been updated in over six months. So it makes sense that I wouldn’t notice this has taken over it: Waygate.com Hacked There was a momentary “WHA!?!?” moment upon…

  • Flash Fiction: Appreciation for Civilization is Mandatory

    “Have you ever dissected a stray cat Mr. Archer?” the old mad scientist grinned deviously at the man resembling a living Greek statue, currently bound to the cavern’s rock wall by a small army of spiderbots chain-linked around him. “Another one of your sick childhood hobbies Doctor X?” Swift Archer jutted his substantial chin out…

  • We Need Futurism Scorecards

    “There should have been a Secretary of the Future.” – Kurt Vonnegut Wired has a great article online covering their failed predictions from the past, which includes the death of brands and online song-sharing. One of their more ridiculous claims was that “futurism is dead.” Far from dead, Futurism has merely become a more esoteric…

  • The Safeguard, A Creative Commons Comic Book Script

    Posting this on the off-chance that there is an aspiring comic artist out there who might be interested in collaborating with an aspiring writer. I had found a fantastic cartoonist to work with me on this project, but, unfortunately, real life was making too many demands on his time, but this is our start. The…

  • Homo sapiens as Long-Distance Runners

    As a child, I was a master at chasing the ice cream man. I remember one time when that big white truck got a good four-block lead on me before I leapt outside in a pavlovian response to its musical tunes (I still salivate when I hear them). That time, the ice cream man let…

  • DaisyWorld, A Fable of Planetary Homeostasis

    Screenshot of DaisyWorld Simulation Credit: GingerBooth.com Long long ago in a galaxy far far away, there was a cold, gray planet named DaisyWorld orbiting a star much like our Sun. On this planet some aliens scientists sprinkled some seeds that produced only white and black daisies. The aliens were performing an experiment just like James…

  • Human Life Goes on Sale Under Bush Administration’s EPA

    Michael Crichton, Glen Beck, the Washington Times, and the Randroids, have all equated environmentalism with eugenics, population control, and fascism. We environmentalists hate human beings, we want to exterminate the human race and have everything go back to a “garden of Eden,” to quote Crichton. So what about the anti-environmentalists? The ones who don’t believe…

  • Flash Fiction: Open-Source Minds

    “Break it up! Break it up! You’re in a feedback loop!” Ms. Moriah had grabbed the two boys by their shirt-collars and was wrenching them apart. Within moments, her thoughts were interceding between their minds, just as her arms were pushing apart their bodies. Alvin and Cory were both breathing hard, staring at one another…