This device looks more and more appealing, but the price of $390 is a bit too high for me, I’m affraid. Maybe I’ll splurge and give it a shot.
Another interesting thing I found in the discussion of this tread is that Tapioca allegedly works with google talk’s VOIP in linux. I’ll give that a try when I get a chance.
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I want it!…
and it doubles as a couples robotic love seat:
Bidding starts at 100,000 USD.
As a goof I asked the seller how much shipping would be to Tehran, Iran. I hope they, and the HSA goons which are no doubt tapping this, have a sense of humor. Cheers guys!
Photographer Robert Knoth and reporter Antoinette de Jong have a very powerful set of photos with commentary called “Nuclear Nightmares: Twenty Years Since Chernobyl”.
A Snippet:
“The milk from the villages gets tested for radiation levels. If the radiation levels are too high the milk is mixed with uncontaminated milk until the radioactivity is below a set limit”
Found via boingboing.
I ran into this ass-kicking piece at Gin and Tacos immediate after the 2k4 travesty of an election. I felt that it was dead on in many respects, but I didn’t have this site working back then….So It gets posted now. Here’s a Snippet:
These votes come from the suburbs (tax cuts) and rural areas (abortion, gay marriage). Can you think of two places more insulated from the regressive economic and international policies of this administration? Look at the decision-making process of a suburban voter. The war? Who cares. Junior’s in an expensive private school, and that ACT tutor is gonna make sure he gets into a 4th-rate college with two directional adjectives in its name. The economy? Come on, daddy’s the person who does the outsourcing, not the one who gets outsourced. Terrorism? Those attacks happen in big cities. Cuts to government programs? Well that’s just more urban poor to shuttle into the army. Or prison. Need more of those.
Streaming media is dominated by a bunch of software companies whose products I don’t want on my computer. I’m a user of firefox, media player classic, ffdshow, media player connectivity, Real Alternative, and others. I do not use IE or Microsoft WMP because they sucks and probably report my viewing habits to homeland security.
For all those sites which don’t work, its nice to know that there is a way of downloading the media to play locally. You can also store copies of your favorites. Use lawfully, you crazy kids.
Look into his eyes…
Meet Tom Bearden. He’s the co-inventor of the Motionless Electromagnetic Generator, or MEG, a device which provides a net positive amount of energy by pulling it out of another dimension. Don’t believe it….Well look here smarty pants a working prototype:
When I get some spare time, I’ve been planning on building a windmill to generate some power convert some wind energy into electrical energy. Maybe I’ll just build one of these instead….wonder if he’ll provide schematics.
I found out about tom after running into his Lecture on Soviet Weather Engineering. Its pretty interesting stuff, especially the pictoral examples; a must for physics buffs and majors. Someone send that man a fisheye! =)
I’d like to believe it and the above stuff about the MEG, but its difficult to be convinced with the small amount of understanding of the items which I have now. But trust me, If I get a MEG to work, you’ll hear about it. Stay tuned.
