Yearly Archives: 2010

Audi A1 news – Finally, Audi’s Mini is here – 2010 – BBC Top Gear

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I'm curious what it looks like in person. So far I'm not loving the way the C pillar ends before the back-end. It looks like its got some junk in the trunk, if you get my drift... I do love the Audi running lamps though!
Audi’s Polo/...

Writing for the mind’s movie screen

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this sounds like a wonderful way to spend the time...
Do you know about ScriptShadow? It’s one of my favorite blogs lately: a smart, snarky, insidery screenplay review. It focuses (as best I can discern) on screenplays that have been...

The American Conservative — No Exit

Yet this generation of soldiers has learned what force can and cannot accomplish. Its members understand the folly of imagining that war provides a neat and tidy solution to vexing problems. They are unlikely to confuse Churchillian calls to arms with ...

Free to Good Home: One Top Secret Stealth Ship

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Maybe if i'm good this year, santa will bring me one of these!

Our friends over at SF Citizen picked up on our recent post about the Great Mothball Fleet at Suisun Bay to call attention to one resident of the fleet that's in ...

Scaring the Senate Intelligence Committee

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Obviously, these people never saw or have forgotten the lessons from Jurassic Park...Life finds a way.
This is unconscionable: At Tuesday's hearing, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California and chairwoman of the Senate Intelli...

Call for a Convention | Call a Convention

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Love it. I think Lessig is right on that if congress is allowed to work on policy and ignore fundraising, we'd get more bang from our buck.
From the Tea Party Right to the Progressive Left, there is agreement that something fundamental...

Quantum biology

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Dams You Plants!! We have so much to learn!
Oh wow. Photosynthesis depends on quantum effects for its amazing efficiency:
The quantum wizardry appears to occur in each of a photosynthetic cell’s millions of antenna proteins. These ...

Cnn.com – Kamen on future innovations

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Nice reminder from Dean Kamen that projections of the future don't include the innovations that will invariably change our lives.
His example is that diabetes accounts for some 30% of our health care dollars and if we're able to cure/reduce its impact, that will not only help our budgets but our lives.

Cnn.com – Kamen on future innovations

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Nice reminder from Dean Kamen that projections of the future don't include the innovations that will invariably change our lives.
His example is that diabetes accounts for some 30% of our health care dollars and if we're able to cure/reduce its impact, that will not only help our budgets but our lives.

10 reasons why gay marriage should be illegal

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They make some pretty good points in there.