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Star Trek

Just got out of Vita.mn’s preview screening of Star Trek. Easily the best movie of 2009 thus far. It blew away all my expectations and was visually stunning. See this movie.

Apr 30th

Apr 29th

YouTube - Googlechrome's Channel →

Google is right, internet browsers are not given enough credit for something people use constantly. Google asked some of their creative friends to make some videos about browsers. I think Chromance is one of the better ones, and not just because it’s called “Chromance.” The little dude is cute and I like the hi/lo-fi animation mix.

Apr 29th

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Robot Spider Terrorizes Japan →

Apr 29th

Official Google Blog: Adding search power to... →

Google expands their searching capability to public data.

Apr 28th

Colbert Study: Conservatives Don't Know He's... →

I know this is everywhere on the internet right now, but I had to post it. Really? Really?!

Apr 28th

Neuroscience of junk-food cravings, researched in... →

Not exactly a revelation, but interesting nonetheless. It’s disturbing to think that guys in lab coats are sitting around formulating food products that will make you eat as much as possible, without taking into consideration any of the associated health risks.

Apr 27th

Watch

soupsoup: Video of Air Force Two flying low over Manhattan today. Interesting that they would neglect to tell the Port Authority, really dumb. In other planes flying low around the island of Manhattan news, this Discovery channel special, Hudson Plane Crash: What Really Happened is a highly entertaining hour of television, check it out.

Apr 27th

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J.J. Abrams Wants to Assure You That His Star Trek... →

I am quite excited to see this on Wednesday at Vita.mn’s preview screening.

Apr 27th

Literary event of the week: Tom Robbins →

Can’t wait for this tomorrow.

Apr 27th

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Apr 27th

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Computer Program to Take On ‘Jeopardy!’ - New York... →

The power of the human brain is awesome (in the true sense of the word). I think my favorite excerpt from this article is the following: For example, the sentence “I never said she stole my money” can have seven different meanings depending on which word is stressed.

Apr 27th

Apr 23rd

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If you haven't read the Torture Memos...

soupsoup: biteofpythias: READ THEM. And not just the timelines or the descriptions. Take an hour or two and sit down and force yourself to read what they did and how they justified it. It is horribly distressing if you are a human being. If you are a Bush supporter politically, please try to step beyond your political stripes and read what was done in your name as a citizen of this country....

Apr 23rd

Frog eats Christmas light, gets illuminated -... →

Cool.

Apr 23rd