Archive for November, 2007

Wednesday Link Dump – Screaming Chimps, Powerpoint Poisons Everything, Rhetorical Advertising, Etc

This is a preview of Wednesday Link Dump – Screaming Chimps, Powerpoint Poisons Everything, Rhetorical Advertising, Etc. Read the full post (285 words, 1 image, estimated 1:08 mins reading time)
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Earthrise And Earthset From The Moon

The Japanese took some time off from creating the freakiest robots known to humanity to create this gorgeous video, a scaled down version of the hi-def version that they’re promising to release soon: The real downer? It was done in a Burbank studio. References: * Earthrise video [Pink Tentacle] * Earthrise, Earthset [pinktentacle3 / YouTube] Previously: * Second Life Brain-Computer Interfaces [...]
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Electovamp Girls Look Like They Know Their Way Around A Club, Are Fun [Video]

These are the times that we wish we had an mp3 blog, because as near as we can tell the British hotties from Electrovamp are still nowhere to be found on Hype Machine. We would post them and then the Internets would belong to us. Alas we run an academic blog frequented by a half [...]
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“People Are Really Smart” Not The Most Compelling Explanation For Why Rank Propaganda Fails

PsyBlog calls out Fahrenheit 9/11 for being bad argumentation and open propaganda, and then goes on to ask why Bush still lost: This is a preview of “People Are Really Smart” Not The Most Compelling Explanation For Why Rank Propaganda Fails. Read the full post (483 words, 1 image, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)
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Giant Scorpion Provides Scientific Data, Nightmares

Yowsers: The immense fossilised claw of a 2.5m-long (8ft) sea scorpion has been described by European researchers. The 390-million-year-old specimen was found in a German quarry, the journal Biology Letters reports. The creature, which has been named Jaekelopterus rhenaniae, would have paddled in a river or swamp. The size of the beast suggests that spiders, insects, [...]
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Open Knowledge Roundup – Google Good, Google Bad, Etc

This is a preview of Open Knowledge Roundup – Google Good, Google Bad, Etc. Read the full post (241 words, 1 image, estimated 58 secs reading time)
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Two-Thirds Of Americans Are Fairly Stupid

You have got to be fucking kidding us: Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the federal government had warnings about 9/11 but decided to ignore them, a national survey found. And that’s not the only conspiracy theory with a huge number of true believers in the United States. The poll found that more than one out of [...]
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3D Images Of The Brain’s Architecture

Scientists are so adorable when they produce something stupefying and then reveal their over-enthusiastic muffin-like geekiness by giving it a really corny name: Researchers at Harvard University have taken an important step to mapping the detailed architecture of the brain – the fantastically complex 3D atlas of connections between individual cells in the brains of mice. [...]
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Severity Bias In Doctor-Patient Relationships Unhelpful To Glib, Non-Rhetorical Medical Ethics

We really don’t have much to say about this beyond the obligatory “this is why it’s important for doctors to have rhetorical and argumentative training.” But it’s about a fallacy that affects judgment in the context of a medical science controversy, ergo: This is a preview of Severity Bias In Doctor-Patient Relationships Unhelpful To Glib, Non-Rhetorical [...]
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Humanity Now Actually Begging To Be Destroyed By Robots [Video]

We’re beginning to suspect that there may be humans among us not strictly interested in the continued dominance of our species: At least there’s no chance of these robots becoming hyper-intelligent or partaking of a functionally teleological metaphysics of self-replication. Because that would be awkward. References: * RHex – ROBORAMA.info [roborama / YouTube] * Engineer Builds Self-Aware Robots That [...]
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Don’t Read Your Goddamn PowerPoint Slides Out Loud [Video]

For the seventh year in a row, we return from NCA with a single, incredibly angry, all-consuming thought: don’t read your goddamn PowerPoint slides out loud: | View | Upload your own That is all for now. Regular blogging will return shortly, as we cobble together our prospectus from disparate blog posts. Then comes the adviser-side [...]
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