I find this artwork by Alexis Rockman to be both disquieting and inspiring. What will our Earth look like after we are gone?
Please visit Alexis Rockman’s online gallery to view all of the artwork.
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I have often said — usually to myself because I am generally alone — that I don’t have to worry about my son starting to drive, because in 15 years cars will drive themselves. Well, I am right yet again. According to this NBC story, car manufacturers are introducing more and more features that cede control from the driver to the automobile, with an eye toward developing a fully autonomous car. If it eliminates such assholery as tailgating, swerving from lane to lane without warning and passing on the right, I am all for it. Even if this is just the next step in the inevitable robot uprising.
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Google’s march toward world domination continues apace, and so they continue to make news pretty much every nano-second. Rather than take the time to write an in-depth piece, I’m just going to give a whirlwind tour of all the Google stuff that’s been cluttering up my Delicious bookmarks.
- Just today, Google announced yet another service: Google Dashboard. They say it’s so you can track all your data that Google is keeping for totally benign reasons (and because you asked them to). I say that this is a handy way of accessing all of your Google stuffs from one place.
- Also as part of Google’s “data liberation” efforts, Google Docs now lets you pull out all of your documents in a handy ZIP file and convert them to the file format of your choice. Here’s my friend Dave Mason’s take on the whole data liberation thing.
- Surely you’ve seen that commercial for the new Motorola Droid phone that attack the iPhone head on? If not, go here to watch it. I likes it!
- Google has also come out with a free GPS navigator. Here’s some analysis on why this is going to kick TomTom’s and Garmin’s collective asses from Gizmodo.
- Got Google Voice yet? I just did. The Google Voice blog offers some advice to newbies.
- Still scratching your head over what exactly Google Wave is and how to use it (if you got one of the highly coveted invitations). Here’s a complete guide to Google Wave from Mashable. For extra credit, Lifehacker offers three worthwhile Google Wave searches and Go2Web20 highlights 11 useful Google Wave extensions you may not know about.
- Here is a sampling of some of the 140 mind-bogglingly obtuse interview questions you might get asked if you applied for a job at Google — with answers! I say, if we’re really all going to work for Google some day, they’re going to have to make their application questions a lot easier. For example: What is your name? And do you worship your benevolent Google overlords? (Correct answer: Yes, Supreme Leader.)
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Ok, I usually try to avoid politics on this blog, but this is close to home, so I couldn’t resist writing about it. This guy, George Hutchins, is actually running for Congress in my district. The same district where the very liberal David Price has been our Representative since I learned who our Representative was in grade school. The same district that includes Chapel Hill, a town that our late Senator Jessie Helms suggested be fenced in like a zoo to keep the animals from escaping.
Not only is he running as a gen-u-wine tea-bagging conservative, but he also has the worst website ever. Go on over and take a look. Tell me if that doesn’t make you think GeoCities circa 1994. All that’s missing are the animated GIFs.
I thought this was a parody at first, but apparently this guy is for real. Check out the anti-Obama page, with its pictures of Obama juxtaposed with Fred Sanford from “Sanford & Son.” Or the culture wars page, where he decries the “gay male homosexual,” including James Dean and the dad from “The Brady Bunch.”
I wouldn’t even be aware of this guy if he wasn’t being made fun of all over the Internet. Hey, conservatives, if you want to be taken seriously, here is a case study in exactly how not to do it. This guy gives wingnuts a bad name.
A wise old Native American once said:
Only the government would believe you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom and have a longer blanket.
Good-bye, 5:00 p.m. daylight. I’m going to miss you. Hello, seasonal depression.
By the way, don’t forget to fall back one hour tonight. Unless you are lucky enough to live in Arizona or Hawaii. Or you are feeling particularly rebellious and want to extend summer time indefinitely! Do I sense a grassroots movement starting?
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