JABbering Stooge

I’m suddenly getting the urge to play the three Fallout games I have…

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Indeed.

Star Trek, Bitchez!

I’m going to see it tonight.

Feel free to turn green with envy at any time.

Sidebar: I didn’t know it at the time, but apparently, Zachary Quinto, AKA Sylar, graduated from Carnegie Mellon my freshman year there.

Via the fine folks at TED, Pattie Maes of MIT’s Media Lab demonstrates an amazing device combines several off-the-shelf technologies (including a wearable camera) to aid in intelligent on-the-spot decision-making. (Excuse me while I sulk in the corner again about how MIT gets all the cool stuff.)

I wonder how easy it would be to implement this idea as an iPhone app…

It looks like I’m not the only one to suggest that the issue of orbital junk needs to be addressed. The European Space Agency is looking into ways of cataloging space junk with an eye towards cleaning up low Earth orbit. Good on them.

* OGS = Orbital Garbage Scow

If all that space junk in orbit is causing such a navigational hazard that NASA has to consider extra-careful maneuvering to get the shuttle into orbit, then perhaps its time to develop some space garbage scows to clean up our mess (perhaps the shuttle itself could pull some double duty for this purpose until the orbital garbage collectors get designed and deployed).

People who need to be thinned from the herd: Marketing people morons who think VoIP is a word.

Plato once said that for everything that exists, there is a perfect form of it somewhere. A perfect human being, a perfect chair, a perfect stick, so that everything is a shadow of that one perfect form. Now, if we follow that train of thought, that means that somewhere in the universe there exists the perfect form of the perfect absolute and complete idiot and he left here an hour four hours ago.

Capt. Matthew Gideon, Babylon 5: Crusade, “The Rules of the Game”

Here’s a good candidate for the WTF?! Files:

Das Kapital turned into a manga comic
Karl Marx’s seminal anti-capitalist tome Das Kapital is to be reincarnated ­ as a Japanese manga comic.

By Danielle Demetriou in Tokyo
Last Updated: 12:04PM GMT 18 Nov 2008

Das Kapital, the manga version, is due to hit bookstores across Japan next month with its complex ideas ambitiously repackaged into digestible comic format.

The appearance of the famous economic treatise in the form of a comic is the latest sign of a resurgence of leftwing literature in Japan as the world’s second largest economy sinks into recession.

The rise of part-time workers and increasing erosion of financial security have fuelled a boom in Communist Party membership in Japan along with a fashionable revival of anti-capitalist literature.

Heh. Mangaka of the world, unite!

Right.

IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING: For those of you who cannot read the post title (for one reason or another), I’ve updated the post slug to be the Romanized version.