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Robotic shipboard fire hoses that will target and spray anything that gets too close to the ship.  One would also hope it would detect and put out any topside fires as well.

So yesterday, I wrote my State Reps (as I do when I feel they are not listening very closely).  Here is what I wrote: Leave I-960 Alone I am writing this to remind you and your office, that I-960 is … Continue reading →

Their legal department and PR department are clueless about how to not make the company look like a big, stinking f*cknugget (e.g. they could have let the school license the logo for $100/yr) UPDATE: When I first read that link, … Continue reading →

The true criminals here are the four kids who attacked the girl, and the three guards who decided that their jobs were more important than doing the right thing.

Here ya all go, your new music maker. Ya’ll can thank me later, at 3AM, when you can’t play with it any more because you’ve passed out on your keyboard.

Tomorrow my buggy office computer’s getting wiped and all-new software installed. Part of the backup process involves clearing out my intarwebs bookmarks, and since I tend to bookmark as a placeholder — sort of an “I found this interesting but … Continue reading →

Slime mold effortlessly duplicates intricate Japanese rail network. The scary thought is that if you take an oatmeal-for-brains leftie and apply slime mold to the grey matter, you’d get a duplicate leftie brain. Maybe even a network of ’em.

For those that don’t know, the is National Engineering Week. Part of what happens this week is engineers go around to the local schools and talk about engineering, as well as participate in local extra-curricular math & science activities. Me … Continue reading →

But can’t find a country that isn’t a shithole in some way or another? Have you thought about Sea Steading?

Two new technologies from old Gaia herself (and isn’t spider silk just always oh so cool, if only spiders didn’t give me the willies). Water Capture Spider Silk Plastic Eating Fungus