Introducing Saab, the man not the auto-maker, and the Japanese auto-makersa€™ Conspiracy.
Opinion is a strange thing. It hardly matters what it is, until there is one that differs from it. Jalali Baba is aware that his opinion is thus lent added credibility when Saab commits the blasphemy of differing form it; and this is perhaps why Jalali Baba bears with Saaba€™s incredible incredulity. Saaba€™s disagreement proves little else than the vanity of an assumption that Jalali Babaa€™s opinion can be the subject of any skepticism at all.
This was baffling; why would they want to give us, their own people, bad backs? It was at this point that one was reminded of the golden rule about assumption, which was that one must assume the best on anothera€™s part, until there was reason to assume otherwise. One is not always a fool; so we tried to assume the best on the agentsa€™ part; and the only plausible explanation was that the agents want us all to have bad backs so that the orthopedics are kept busy, and since there are so many of these Japanese cars around, it was apparent that the agents did not just want the Orthopedics busy, they wanted them terribly busy, busy enough to give them bad backs. Working with the golden rule again, we got to the conclusion that they wanted the Orthopedics to have badbacks so that they could experience first hand the pain they had to treat, and at this point it all fell in place - magically or not.
Posted: March 29th, 2007
at 10:14pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: whips,mnp is for the children
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non-ideological
There are times when LR is pretty sure the world is going mad, and this is one of those times. Garry Kasparov gave a speech on February 12th before the Foreign Policy Association in New York City and the text turns up on a blog called "Grow with Chess" (hat tip: Robert Amsterdam). You can visit the FPA website and watch the speech or download the transcript.
Posted: March 29th, 2007
at 9:36pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: myninjaplease,games,robots,politricks,real life news
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New technology puts hand-held projectors within reach
The global electronic components manufacturer Alps Electric Co., Ltd has been granted an exclusive license to the Universitya€™s core patent for a revolutionary holographic video projector technology, developed in the Department of Engineering.
The company intends to manufacture miniature projectors based on the Universitya€™s patented technology that will be highly energy efficient, will always be in focus and will be extremely robust. These qualities would make them ideal for building into laptops, mobile phones and all manner of devices.
The technology works by converting the image to be projected into a phase-only holographic pattern. This pattern is displayed inside the projector on a small, fast, high-definition liquid crystal over silicon (LCOS) panel. A laser is trained on to the panel. The light bouncing off each of the millions of points of the pattern interferes to reconstruct the original picture on a conventional white screen, the office wall or any convenient surface.
Posted: March 29th, 2007
at 10:24am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: cell phones,design
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Urban ants handle heat better
At 107.6 degrees Fahrenheit, the scientists found urban ants lasted 20 percent longer than ants from outside the city before the extreme heat knocked them out. Surprisingly, although the researchers expected that extreme cold would knock city ants out faster, they found urban ants recovered from storage at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius) in ice-entombed Petri dishes about as fast as ants from outside the city.
"We don’t know whether this pattern will hold up for other species or other cities, but people should certainly be looking," researcher Michael Angilletta of Indiana State University said in a prepared statement. "Ultimately, this research could help us to understand how species will respond to global climate change."
