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Science Fiction Brought to Life

melt — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:13:10 +0000

It’s Alive!

Look out 1 percent, here we come

melt — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:32:36 +0000

“Are you concerned about growing income inequality in America? Are you resentful of all that wealth concentrated in the 1 percent? I’ve got the perfect solution, a modest proposal that involves just a small adjustment in the Federal Reserve’s easy monetary policy. Best of all, it will mean that none of us have to work for a living anymore.”

Ummmn, sounds good to me …

Here’s the jump: Fix income inequality with $10 million loans for everyone!

Low Effort Thought = Conservatism

melt — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:07:54 +0000

New study shows that “when effortful, deliberate thought is disengaged, endorsement of conservative ideology increases.” It tunes in pretty well with a study I read a few days back that links conservatives with thought processes that always find something fearful in a thought or idea.

Fancy studies and all, I know, but I have always just called them “lazy-brained paranoids”.

Here’s the jump: Via Sage Journals, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Low-Effort Thought Promotes Political Conservatism

Additionally:

Relax awhile …

melt — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:02:48 +0000

Free National Broadband Coming

melt — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:27:38 +0000

A Los Angles company has announced plans to offer free national broadband service. Starting this summer, FreedomPop plans to offer free to nominally priced wireless broadband service to US consumers. Sure hope they ‘member us po’ folk down here in Mississippi …

Here’s the jump to Forbes: FreedomPop Explains How It Will Offer Free National Broadband Starting This Summer

A “Litmus Paper” for the Human Body

melt — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:02:26 +0000

What if diagnosing salmonella or colorectal cancer was as easy as looking in the toilet? Scientists and designers are collaborating to create a new type of bacteria that beautifies your fecal matter while diagnosing your illness.

Here’s the jump: Bacteria colors your poop to diagnose what ails you

My new war horse

melt — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:14:48 +0000

Just built the new war horse, here’s the goodness:

AMD A8-3850 2.9 gHz Llano quad-core processor

Asus F1A75 mobo AMD A75 chipset

8 gig Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM

Click to enlarge the pics.

And here it is with the new ASUS EAH6850 vid card installed.

System includes a WD SATA 6 hard-drive and an Antec 520 watt 80 + power supply.

She gets the job done, FAST.

Pictures taken with my other new “pocket computer/cell phone”, the dual-core Motorola Atrix. I’ll be talking about this nifty little gadget in a later post …

Sometimes you just gotta stop and ……

melt — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:59:28 +0000

Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.

A quite literal “down to earth” experience. 5-star, must see!

Bennet Goes Gaga

melt — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:43:35 +0000

Bennet and Gaga

It’s extremely refreshing to see such diverse culture icons come together to make this wonderful sound.

If only we could get some of this from our country’s leaders….

Who’s Storing What, and for How long, About You?

melt — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:36:35 +0000

“The nation’s major mobile-phone providers are keeping a treasure trove of sensitive data on their customers, according to a newly released Justice Department internal memo that for the first time reveals the data retention policies of America’s largest telecoms.”

“People who are upset that Facebook is storing all their information should be really concerned that their cell phone is tracking them everywhere they’ve been,” said Catherine Crump, an ACLU staff attorney. “The government has this information because it wants to engage in surveillance.”

Here’s the jump: From the Arcs Technica – Secret memo reveals which telecoms store your data the longest