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what, more links?

Friendly societies: ancient free-market social security Meet the Mind Readers: brain implants to control prostheses. In previous studies, Nicolelis’s team showed that when monkeys had their brains hooked up to robotic arms, they assimilated the arm, effectively making it their … Continue reading

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signal interference

I tried to remember the title theme of Dexter and all I could summon was that of The Odd Couple. Hmm.

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not from the inside

Mike Linksvayer has “One question for temporary dictator applicants”: What will you do to reduce the power of the presidency? Mike admits, I’m afraid I’d have a hard time providing a specific non-lame (and not pie-in-the-sky) answer myself, but what … Continue reading

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awww!

I was awakened by a voice: “How cute!” I opened my eyes to find the Little Demon perching on my chest.

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the honorable hippie from Texas

Sunday I saw some Ron Paul banners on overpasses in Santa Clara County, one of which read Ron Paul REVOLUTION — where the letters EVOL were really LOVE backward and slightly misaligned to make the point, whatever it is, more … Continue reading

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the flickering image

Bela Lugosi was more interesting in a supporting role in The Black Camel (Warner Oland’s second Charlie Chan picture) than in Dracula, made the same year. Also recently watched: the first disc of season 10 of South Park. The first … Continue reading

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spam trends

For a while there, nearly all the comments submitted to this blog linked to files in an obscure directory on a minor university’s server, which in turn redirected to a porn site. After I reported it to the webmasters of … Continue reading

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