Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Ubuntu Linux Now Controlled / Owned by the People's Republic of China

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For those of you who care, Ubuntu Linux is now for all practical purposes owned by the People's Republic of China. I doubt very much...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

The Garden of Allah: An Editorial About the Preservation of Architecture in Los Angeles

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Whenever you read about a famous building in Los Angeles, you are pretty sure that the story is going to have an unhappy ending. Los An...
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Saturday, June 8, 2013

SIGGRAPH 2013: Rejection is So Annoying

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I really hate being rejected. I hate it just about as much as anything. Dont they realize my genius? Dont they know who I am (or at l...
Thursday, June 6, 2013

Lots of Data

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One difference between now and then, between the world before the WWW and now, is access to data. It used to be that there were not that...

Photograph of Lance Williams

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A photograph of Lance Williams and son, probably taken at his birthday party perhaps six or seven years ago.   Among other things, Lance in...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Reality vs Visual Effects: Underwater Alien

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The following picture was taken by scuba diver Kyle McBurnie. You can read about it here here  on the  New Scientist  web site. ...
Monday, June 3, 2013

How to Help The Unemployed Even Though They Are Worthless Scum

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Most of us have friends who are in serious financial / employment / career meltdown.  I have at least six such friends, seven including my...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Pearls Before Swine or the Potential Downside of Helping Someone Find Work

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In future posts we are going to discuss ways that you, the working elite, can help your friends, the unemployed scum, find gainful employm...
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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Reality vs Special Effects: The Case of the Deepwater Horizon

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One of my favorite photographs of a catastrophe of all time is this photograph of the Deepwater Horizon blowing up in April of 2010. ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

From Capitalist Pigs to Communist Pigs ?

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The Red Chinese Communist dictatorship is trying to purchase an important pillar of the Commonwealth of Virginia's economy and cultur...