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Omri Ceren is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication and a principal at LynxDC, a Washington, DC strategic communication firm. His home on the Internet is here.
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Engineer Builds Self-Aware Robots That Learn And Self-Replicate. Umm… What? [Video]
Posted on October 13, 2007 | No CommentsYou know, we’ve seen more than a few movies that begin this way. And they always end badly. Always. Here’s uber-genius Hod Lipson giving an engaging presentation that was – for reasons inscrutable to us – not subtitled “how I... -
Underwater Photographer Having A Lot More Fun Than Us, Also Producing Gorgeous Photos
Posted on October 10, 2007 | No CommentsWe haven’t done a photo gallery in a while. This set is shamelessly lifted from Kawika Chetron of Cold Water Images. Blue rockfish (Sebastes mystinus) swimming below a canopy of giant kelp (Macrocystis sp.): Invisible high five from a green... -
Mark Ronson And Amy Winehouse Are Very Good For Each Other [Video]
Posted on October 8, 2007 | 1 CommentMark Ronson and Amy Winehouse are having a difficult time doing wrong. The talented and circumspect Ms. Winehouse does not make a physical appearance in this video – a cover of the Zutons’s “Valerie” – but the female vocals are... -
Science Photography Awards Announced
Posted on October 6, 2007 | No CommentsThe 2007 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge awards were announced last week in Science. That little beauty above is Chondrus crispus, a red algae more commonly known as Irish moss, that was snapped by Andrea Ottesen of the University... -
Sigmund Freud Head Lollipops. Yes, Really.
Posted on October 5, 2007 | No CommentsThe Internet is over. You can all go home now: Sigmund Freud’s head yields subtle contours and watermelon flavors when you suck on it. Of course it does. Post tagged ‘s’ for stupid. References: * Watermelon Flavored Sigmund Freud Head... -
![And even this would have been unthinkable three or four years before that: Not exactly Web 2.0. References: * DEC – Glimpse of the Future, 1994 [mgrdcm / YouTube] Previously: * Amazon Marketing And Its Discontents – Red Bull And…...](http://www.iconindexsymbol.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/20100529futureweb_640-115x115.jpg "1994 Vision Of The Web [Video]")
1994 Vision Of The Web [Video]
Posted on October 5, 2007 | No CommentsAnd even this would have been unthinkable three or four years before that: Not exactly Web 2.0. References: * DEC – Glimpse of the Future, 1994 [mgrdcm / YouTube] Previously: * Amazon Marketing And Its Discontents – Red Bull And…... -
Calvin And Hobbes Mural Shows Dedication, Potentially Misplaced Academic Priorities [Video]
Posted on October 4, 2007 | No CommentsBehold exhibit A in our next “you might be the least productive student I’ve ever met” meeting with the Adviser: Of course the Adviser’s answer is going to be “yeah, but at least they produced something.” Outflanked again. References: *... -
20 Years Of Technological Progress
Posted on October 1, 2007 | No CommentsOn the left, what you needed to store 1GB of data in 1988. On the right, a tiny 1GB SD drive that’s already at least three generations old: So there you have it: over the course of 20 years, 1GB... -
IIS Begs Science: Please Stop Making Robots That Creep Us The Hell Out
Posted on September 28, 2007 | No CommentsNo… … and no… … and absolutely not: -
Mickey Avalon Embraces Rock And Roll Lifestyle With Something Less Than Ironic Distance [Video]
Posted on September 20, 2007 | No CommentsOur interest in psychoanalysis is strictly theoretical, which is to say that we have no background or training in anything clinical or diagnostic. But even we can see that Mickey Avalon’s lifestyle is (a) unhealthy and (b) totally awesome.. Content...
