Paul Saffo, at Edge.org (scroll way down):There are two kinds of fools: one who says this is old and therefore good, and the other who says this is new and therefore better. The argument between the two is as old as humanity itself, but technology's relentless exponential advance has made the divide deeper and more contentious than ever. My greatest fear is that this divide will frustrate the sensible application of technological innovation in the service of solving humankind's greatest challenges. The two camps forming this divide need a name,...
Monday, 28 January 2013
Thursday, 24 January 2013
User "graykat777" posted the image above to Reddit last night (click here for larger version). The user's local utility company is raising rates due to too many people practicing good energy conservation. While this seems psychotic, think of it this way: if it costs X dollars to run a power plant, plus Y dollars per kW/h to burn coal, then you can only cut out Y as usage drops. X is a constant (paying power plant workers, maintaining equipment,...
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Here's what I wrote, back in June, 2012: As my friend Adam says "Lance Armstrong is either the greatest athlete of all time or the greatest liar of all time." Which is more likely? A ten year long conspiracy that foiled hundreds of blood tests, investigations and video surveillance...or he simply did not dope?Of course it is clear now that the former scenario turned out to be the right one. Despite the unlikelihood of it, Lance perpetrated a decade-long conspiracy involving hundreds of willing and unwilling accomplices, beat hundreds of blood tests,...
Monday, 14 January 2013
With President Obama's announcement about whatever the administration plans to do in regards to gun control happening in 10 minutes*, the topic is hot on my mind. Especially because I have a five year old.Friday afternoon, I took off early and headed to a farm north of Lawrence, KS, to hunt deer. The weather was lovely, hot and humid and unseasonally warm for mid-January in Kansas. I hunkered down with a Remington Model 700 bolt-action rifle,...
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