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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Powerball and Chain

The Multi-State Lottery Association announced today that parolees in member states will receive free weekly Powerball tickets if they voluntarily submit to electronic monitoring.
(Suppose they offer this to one-armed bandits? Do you feel lucky? Har har.)
image CC-BY by Old Sarge
Inspected by 9973 and verified false at time of posting.

Telepresence Predicted Top Medium for Gundam Triathlon

Telepresence is expected to be the most popular medium for this year’s Gundam Triathlon (scheduled to take place 14 July (cue La Marseillaise) at Vinson Massif) according to Nielsen Media Research.
Estonia is expected is expected to continue to lead the world in telepresence viewers per capita (population 1.3M, TP viewership of last year’s GT estimated [...]

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The Department of Health and Human Services today announced a joint-venture with Google, with DHHS offering vouchers to all qualified patients good for free Lasik vision-correction surgery if the patient agrees to occasional context-appropriate banner ads. “This is [...]

Diagnoses

They keep telling me I have diabetes but I don’t believe them. Someday I’m going to be found dead, buried in blankets, clutching a Zebra cake like some obscene rosary with a message to an oblivious god.

It Goes to Eleven

Glenn Jensen in Kneeland, CA has put together a clever app consisting of a camera, a display, some sweet photo-interpolation software and a big-ass knob. At setup time, you feed in dated photos of yourself at all ages—from baby photos on up. At runtime, it’s an adjustable mirror: Crank the knob all the [...]

Book Your Ticket

According to this article in International Leisure World (”Russia’s Annual Catalogue of Luxury Travel”), the Arend M. Agter Clinic in the Cape Town suburb of Newlands has begun offering guided vacations into your own memories. They don’t specify what technologies are being used (hypnosis, lucid dreaming, deep brain stimulation, SP-17?) I wonder whether [...]

The 24th

It was a fine day for a wedding.