Shameful. The bill’s passage came despite opposition from more than 320 advocacy groups, including faith-based groups, women’s organizations, civil rights groups and domestic violence workers groups. During the debate, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) pressed Adams to name groups that supported her bill. “Well, Mr. Conyers, I can say I do,” Adams said. “I’m glad to […]
As futurist Paul Saffo says, for a company like Mercedes nowadays, “the value add is the software and the computers. The wheels are primarily there to keep the computers from dragging on the ground.” I for one welcome our new robot-car overlords. Hell, they have to be better drivers than 90% of this town.
From Daring Fireball…. But it’s not like there isn’t a damn good source that suggests Apple’s plans for K-12 textbooks are anything short of ambitious and transforming. I’m guessing Apple’s pitch to the textbook companies is something like this: “Digital transformation of your industry is inevitable. Here’s our plan; we’d like you to come along […]
You’re living in the past and nine other mind-bending chronological curiosities. …About 80 milliseconds in the past, to be precise. Use one hand to touch your nose, and the other to touch one of your feet, at exactly the same time. You will experience them as simultaneous acts. But that’s mysterious — clearly it takes […]
Explained. I think.
Q: If a taco and a burrito are traveling near the speed of light and collide, will the result be delicious? A: The result would be an explosion large enough to destroy a small village. high speed collisions do that, whether or not they are made of Mexican food. Neil deGrasee Tyson AMAs on redditt
The headline here should really read – holy crap who eats that?
It’s not often you get to see a person implode live on national television – but wow. Really, I’d like to thank the GOP, Fox News and the Tea Party – your insistence that Rick Perry is a viable candidate – I guess be because he illegally shoots wild life while jogging – may have […]
Kind of evil, but also brilliant.
“Did Everyone in the 80’s have a helicopter?” I say after the second run-through of the Air Wolf intro on Brian’s iPad. “You might be right,” he responds, “A-Team, Magnum PI – might just be how everyone got around back then…” This conversation began as a debate one whether Pinero had been beat boxing/humming (or […]