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Boing Boing: Hussein Chalayan's awesome animatronic fashion |
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10:54 pm EDT, Oct 9, 2006 |
whoa...animatronic clothing....its totally awesome. Not work safe though...there is a nude model (because her dress turns into a hat!!!) Boing Boing: Hussein Chalayan's awesome animatronic fashion |
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9:37 pm EDT, Aug 28, 2006 |
Tabjab is a powerful way to keep track of the interpersonal debts that often arise between friends, roommates, and coworkers. You can use Tabjab to send out bills for dinner debts, bar tabs, rent, utilities, entertainment, or any other expense that people share. These bills are delivered via email, and they are easy to consolidate when it comes time to pay.
My new project: TabJab |
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11:47 am EST, Mar 15, 2006 |
Acidus wrote:
Not 1, but 2 people told me about the Thin Mint Straw this weekend. I had never heard of before this weekend so I gave it a try. -Take 1 Girl Scouts Thin Mint cookie
-Take 2 a small bites on opposite sides of the cookie. Just enough to get through the chocolate coating to the crunchy cookie
-Insert cookie into milk; use as a straw. It sounds silly but you'll wonder why you never did it before.
Is this a new breed of engineering? What should we call it? Dessert engineering? Yummy engineering? or my personal fav....De-lic-ous engineering:) RE: The Thin Mint Straw |
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Boing Boing: RIP, Octavia Butler, |
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4:46 pm EST, Mar 1, 2006 |
Octavia Butler, the brilliant science fiction writer, reportedly died on Saturday following a fall.
Somehow I missed this. Very unfortunate. (This is very sad indeed...she is a brilliant biopunk author. I recommend her writing...
-Nano) Boing Boing: RIP, Octavia Butler, |
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CNN: Parents don't see a crisis over science and math |
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9:04 pm EST, Feb 16, 2006 |
Holy shit....I am speechless WASHINGTON (AP) -- Science and math have zoomed to the top of the nation's education agenda. Yet Amanda Cook, a parent of two school-age girls, can't quite see the urgency. "In Maine, there aren't many jobs that scream out 'math and science,"' said Cook, who lives in Etna, in the central part of the state. Yes, both topics are important, but "most parents are saying you're better off going to school for something there's a big need for." Nationwide, a new poll shows, many parents are content with the science and math education their children get -- a starkly different view than that held by national leaders. Fifty-seven percent of parents say "things are fine" with the amount of math and science being taught in their child's public school. High school parents seem particularly content -- 70 percent say their child gets the right amount of science and math. Oh. My. God. I think I've just had a stroke and heart attack. -janelane, WTF??!! CNN: Parents don't see a crisis over science and math |
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If Robots Ever Get Too Smart, He'll Know How to Stop Them - New York Times |
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5:32 pm EST, Feb 14, 2006 |
Dude...this book looks good. Additionally, that is the best quote ever! Extra additionally, yay Janelane, for being a scientist for a grey goo tommorrow.... "If popular culture has taught us anything," Daniel H. Wilson says, "it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace." Luckily, Dr. Wilson is just the guy to help us do it.
-janelane, scientist for a grey goo tomorrow If Robots Ever Get Too Smart, He'll Know How to Stop Them - New York Times |
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Boing Boing: Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches |
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6:49 pm EST, Feb 3, 2006 |
Zombie Slave roaches...wow...this kicks total ass. Sometimes biology is so much more sci-fi than fiction The wasp slips her stinger through the roach's exoskeleton and directly into its brain. She apparently use ssensors along the sides of the stinger to guide it through the brain, a bit like a surgeon snaking his way to an appendix with a laparoscope. She continues to probe the roach's brain until she reaches one particular spot that appears to control the escape reflex. She injects a second venom that influences these neurons in such a way that the escape reflex disappears. From the outside, the effect is surreal. The wasp does not paralyze the cockroach. In fact, the roach is able to lift up its front legs again and walk. But now it cannot move of its own accord. The wasp takes hold of one of the roach's antennae and leads it--in the words of Israeli scientists who study Ampulex--like a dog on a leash.
Boing Boing: Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches |
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