Outside night is doing the shift to day that we call morning. We slowly orbit into the solar bombardment that we need to thrive as living beings, and with it come a new beginning. That’s generally how we perceive things. They have a beginning and an end. Either that or it’s cyclic. It continues and [...]
There was an idea once. No one remembers it because it has changed a whole lot since it first came to be. Not recently though. It started out as a very adaptive idea, but once it had found a good basic form it grew and grew and grew. The bigger it became the [...]
It was a quiet night. No stars or moon reflecting of the hard concrete. There’s a little wind, but not enough to throw you of balance. You just had to keep running, dodging, jumping. A to B, B to C, and sometimes you had to backtrack which meant lost time and momentum.
Momentum, combined with reflexes, [...]
We led a tireless revolt against the old ways. Shopping carts violently overturned in a glorious explosion of sliced ham and tampons. Those who were rude to us were banished to the back of the line to think about what they had done. There was even a virtuous mutiny among us. We rejected our leaders [...]
This threatens to supplant metal detectors as the worst hobby in the world.
Evidently thousands of hobbyists worldwide have launched weather balloons designed to be neutrally buoyant in the jet stream, and are inhabiting them for hours each day (some full-time) via telepresence. By convention one balloonist only communicates with another if their balloon is [...]
The President this morning announced a temporary ban on conjunctive surgery, saying that elective conjunction jeopardizes the very notion of “individual,” as in “individual liberties” or “individual rights.” Completes, partials and their supporters are expected to demonstrate later today.
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Without any fanfare that I can find, Hallmark Gold Crown Stores have added a service that scans your retina with a gigapixel scanner, then prints out a hundred postcard-sized photos from earlier in your life, as though the images were actually burned onto your retina and just waiting for magnification to reveal them. Surely [...]
Kai sent this in from City Pages:
Natural woman seeks man with both his own original hands. No transplants, no upgrades, no plugins, no prosthetics. If you’re out there, give me a sign.
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More news from the world of cortical implants:
The Arkansas Department of Correction has contracted with iLess in Mountain View to equip violent offenders with remote-readable cortical implants. The theory is that corrections officers will be able to monitor parolees’ visual imaginations and intervene ahead of any crimes. But seriously: Have you ever watched [...]
You probably have to be Thai to really understand this one.
I’m told (via Nong) that a big chunk of Muay Thai fans have gone over to a new version of the sport. Fighters all have crude but effective cortical implants (no place like Thailand for implants, after all). Each fight (in the absence [...]