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| Monday Oct 28, 2002 | "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
"From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the
tapeworm." "The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders." Edward Abbey
had some great one liners (and books). These and many more
are randomly available at the Edward Abbey Quote Index. to Literature by xrayjones |
| Sunday Apr 7, 2002 | PINO is an open platform humanoid robot,
covered by GPL and the
GNU Free Document License, and is
cheap, unlike Sony's SDR-3X or Honda's ASIMO.
to Robotics by xrayjones |
| Sunday Apr 29, 2001 | The debate rages on about genetically-modified organisms (GMOs)
in our food:
Are they the only solution
to world hunger? Or
dangerous money makers for big business?
Or should they be avoided because we just can't
be sure what side effects they might have? Whatever
your stance, chances are you're eating
food with GMO ingredients every day. Maybe I'll start cutting back on those
Pop-Tarts and
Mountain Dew after all. (Or maybe not.) to Food by xrayjones |
| Wednesday Jan 17, 2001 | In the spirit of the
Viridian Meter,
you can calculate your ecological footprint
using a web-based calculator from
Redefining Progress.
to Science by xrayjones |
| Tuesday Oct 24, 2000 | If you're nominally eco-friendly yet live in a
hyperconsumerized yuppie megacondo that doesn't
have any facilities for recycling your recyclables (like me),
check out 1800CLEANUP.org.
It'll also tell you where to, say, get rid of that pile of
old tires sitting in a pickup truck in your front lawn.
The only downside to the site is that you've got
to click through layers of menus. to Reference by xrayjones |
| Monday Oct 23, 2000 | Any website with a feature called "Daily Pimpsteak",
a game described as "Pin the mustache on the drunk midget" (warning: Flash plugin required),
and a name like speefnarkle is fine
in my book. to Art by xrayjones |
| Tuesday Apr 4, 2000 | Please God, do not allow some superfly
Indonesian gigolo
become the next Mahir.
to Wackos by xrayjones |
| Wednesday Mar 15, 2000 | Robot porn. Honestly, I can't
think of anything to say that would make this any better.
to Robotics by xrayjones |
| Ever wanted to know if you should
neuter your Sea Monkey? Or maybe you want to know just
how big
you Sea Monkey may get? Ask the Sea Monkey Lady for answers to
these questions and more. You can also come to terms with your grief (or is that guilt?) for your ex-Sea Monkeys via the Sea Monkey Wall of Grief.
to Pets by xrayjones |
| Sunday Mar 12, 2000 | Merriam-Webster defines manifesto as "a
written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its
issuer". To me, most lie near the fine line between
amusing and
annoying,
while a few are actually
interesting.
Many manifestos seem to be authored by total
cranks, yet some
(such as the GNU and
Communist manifestos) may have some lasting significance.
to Commentary by xrayjones |
| Saturday Mar 11, 2000 | Aerovironment has been pursuing innovative
vehicle design (including human- and solar-powered vehicles) for years now.
Current projects and products include
the
Black Widow, a remote-controlled surveillance plane that launches from a briefcase,
the Pointer (a larger, hand-launched
surveillance plane), and the Charger electrically-assisted bicycle. Also
in development is the Helios
unmanned telecommunications relay aircraft, which would circle continuously
for months on end over a city to provide the equivalent of
a very-low-altitude telecom satellite. Paul MacCready is
the man behind the company, and has a history of unique engineering accomplishments
including the construction of the Gossamer Albatross,
the first human-powered airplane capable of sustained flight. to Transportation by xrayjones |
| Thursday Jan 13, 2000 | The "it's free but we spam you" business model
seems to be getting popular. Two examples
are freeDSL.com, a company
that gives you free DSL access but which displays
targeted ads in a small window while online; and
free-PC, which gives
you a (you guessed it!) free PC in exchange for
piping advertisement directly to your brain. Unfortunately,
to take advantage of these offers you have to be willing
to cripple your machine by running a certain
successful yet oft-disparaged operating system.
to Computing by xrayjones |
| Saturday Jan 1, 2000 | Think humans should go to Mars? Then get off your
e-butt and do what little you can by signing the
Mars Petition. The desired outcome is a human mission to Mars
in 2015. You might also check out the Mars Society
for more info on Mars advocacy. to Science by xrayjones |
| Friday Nov 19, 1999 |
Rock climbing and naked women. These are a few of my
favorite things.
to Art by xrayjones |
| Saturday Nov 6, 1999 | There's no such thing as KILLER ROBOTS, you say?
Well, what about a
ROBOT THAT EATS SLUGS, with the added benefit of garden pest control?
Look out, pathetic human--YOU'RE NEXT.
to Robotics by xrayjones |
| Thursday Nov 4, 1999 | People keep asking me if yeast is plant or animal (and therefore vegan or not),
to I normally reply is "It's as much not-animal as plants are."
That usually confuses them long enough to let me
slip away, but these days I'll just point them
to the
Tree of Life, which includes a browsable
hierarchy of
taxa with references and pictures. to Science by xrayjones |
| Thursday Oct 14, 1999 | Coffee, taken normally, works great as Drano for your
colon. Alternative coffee-colon combinations are
explored in
Coffee: The Royal Flush. Hey, if it was good enough
for Louis XIV, isn't it time you tried one? to Health by xrayjones |
| Monday Oct 11, 1999 | Warning: Do Not Lick.
The Lineman's Bull Pen
is dedicated to workers in the power industry who
have lost their lives and explains such terms as
"Tool Buddy". It also demonstrates why PCP and high-voltage lines don't mix.
to Health by xrayjones |
| Wednesday Sep 1, 1999 | Don't settle for a theremin--you can get a
Theremax!
Or maybe you want a phat analog bass
synth for your MIDI setup? These and other kits for electronically-inclinded
musicians can be had at PAiA Electronics.
to Music by xrayjones |
| Friday Aug 27, 1999 | What's the fastest way to get to Titan? Why,
a
nuclear salt water rocket of course! This and
other short essays on cutting-edge science can be
found in the Alternate View columns
of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. to Science by xrayjones |
| Thursday Jul 22, 1999 | For some people, a good time means being trussed up in
a harness for days on end, pooping in
plastic tubes, and doing heavy labor while
trying not to fill your pants. Welcome to
big wall climbing. to Sports by xrayjones |
| Wednesday Jul 21, 1999 | As if UFO fetishists aren't bad enough by default,
this one
seems to think some clouds are UFOs that believe
in Jesus. to Wackos by xrayjones |
| Sunday Jun 6, 1999 | How much would you pay for the
fastest 8-bit single-chip microcontroller?
$10? $20? But wait--there's more! You get 100 MIPS
of processing power, on-chip reprogrammable
flash memory, and a four-stage pipeline. NOW how
much would you pay?
About $5.
to Gadgets by xrayjones |
| Monday May 24, 1999 | According to the
Chief of the Forest Service,
having fun on federal land is not a
priveledge, it's a
revenue generator. This has some people
righteously pissed-off. See what
Wild Wilderness has to say about this.
to Politics by xrayjones |
| Wednesday May 19, 1999 | Believe it or not, there's a government agency
for searching for little green men (or ancient nanobacteria, as the
case may be). You can even
ask an astrobiologist about your extraterrestrial lifeform conundrums.
to Science by xrayjones |
| Friday Apr 2, 1999 | If you're searching for info on
U.S. Army moonbases or any other
spaceflight technology, look no further than the
Encyclopedia Astronautica. to Reference by xrayjones |
| Thursday Apr 1, 1999 | Move over, crack dealer, there's a new drug
addiction on the block. Let's hope the DEA
doesn't criminalize this one, or we'll end up
with a new form of street-life: the
Lip Balm
Ho.
to Health by xrayjones |
| Monday Mar 29, 1999 | Trying to optimize your next rock climbing
road trip? Looking for a free campground?
Rock n'
Road has listings of over 2000 crags in
North America, including information on camping
and guidebooks.
to Sports by xrayjones |
| Tired of paying retail prices for your android
heads? Stick it to the man! Build your own
android
head instead. to Robotics by xrayjones |
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