When manufacturers start adding new features to their products–especially “new technology” or “digital”–it is usually wise to let your neighbors buy it and try it out before you buy it yourself.
This is especially true of items that are particularly valuable or potentially dangerous, should some malfunction occur. Remote car starters, for example. Or electronically controlled ovens.
H/T Dave Barry’s Blog.
Wired has an article that demonstrates why Indy races are–or at least were–lame. The drivers considered it too dangerous to race side-by-side. It is dangerous. If you want to drive safely please visit the public highways. We could always use more safe drivers out there.
Things are beginning to improve. Indy racers now have a power-up button. It is a nifty trick based on telling the engine to stop wasting power on the alternator for a few seconds. The system still needs work, however. Rather than awarding a set number of these power-ups based on timing alone, they need to activate this ability based on a driver passing over a specific part of the track. There needs to also be a chance to acquire the ability to selectively target and slow down another driver. And an electromagnetic accelerator that just takes a car that passes into it and accelerates it another 100 mph or so. And missiles would be cool, tool.
Wired’s article on how to dissappear doesn’t really answer the question, but it does make it plain that the only thing truly difficult is willingly leaving everything that used to be your life behind–permanently.
I can easily believe that a cool temperature usually helps people sleep because I find the most delicious sleep is usually in quite cool temperatures with warm blankets.
Today’s gospel is tomorrows myth. Until the day after that. Maybe.
Keep running, if you enjoy it.
Apparently there are at least some moths that can jam bat sonar. (And apparently there are scientists who still like torturing little bugs.) I wonder if people can effectively jam bat sonar, with practice?
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/medicalrecords/
Warning: Digital snake oil has not been shown to be more effective at preventing or treating disease than physical snake oil.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/medicalrecords/
This study reported on Discovery.com says that pigeons can be trained to pick out art their handlers think is good.
I think this is excellent news. Now we can put pigeons in school and let the kids run around in the park, and everyone will be better off. The kids can learn better things than mimickery and the pigeons can do as they are told.
You have to be careful of people who think that history cycles. A circle comes back to where it started. A swirl, on the other hand, has a beginning and an end. But a circle and a swirl are very similar so a description of one can greatly resemble the other.
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Robinson-Jeffers/3011
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Didn’t think so.