Swords With Freaking Lasers
Lightsabers are real, to an extent. A company called Wicked Lasers, known for its wicked lasers and Lucas Arts lawsuit, have made a lightsaber-like thing called a lasersaber (named differently for copyright reasons I’m sure). What is really great about this is not the actual lasersaber, although its pretty cool, but rather the fact that...
Proactive Prometheus
Have you heard of Prometheus? Despite being that perpetually punished titan, it is also a movie opening in June of 2012. I do not know too much about this movie; all I know is it is a science fiction film that takes place in the future, as they often do, that involves a huge company...
Journey to the Center of the Art
There are some people who argue video games aren’t art. I certainly don’t think all video games are art, but it certainly is a medium one can create art with. Interactivity is the characteristic that gives games the capability to be powerful, to involve the observer with the creation. Isn’t that what art is about?...
Supercomputers That Aren’t Super Expensive
There is a lot research taking place today that requires heavy computing, but supercomputers are expensive. So how can research groups get the processing they need without the need to buy or rent a mulit-million dollar machine? The answer is in distributed computing. For those who have not heard about it, distributed computing is essentially...
Keeping Society Sea-steady
What is seasteading? In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed The First Homestead Act into law. It granted land ownership of previously unowned land (the soon-to-be homestead) to anyone who improved this said land. Of course there were stipulations, however, this provided significant benefits, as it allowed fundamental change and great growth. Fast forward to modern...
Time’s Insignificance (or How Time Wastes Time)
I couldn’t decide what to write about today. Everything I had read or watched in these past few hours seemed so meaningless, so far-fetched or irrelevant. Now I am sitting in my room, lights off, window blinds open; it’s getting dark now. I’m just sitting on my bed, by the window. I can hear birds...
The Abuse of the Greatest Idea
I feel I have so much to say, but at the same time can’t say anything at all. It is subjects like life or education that are so broad and so central in ones psyche that one’s lifetime of experience with it offers little but a few words. For me, and for many others, education...
Fat Paragraph: V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
“Vi veri veniversum vivus vici.” Are you anonymous, ninety-nine-percentist, anarchist, wizardly, genius, rationalist, vigilant, non compos mentis, or a-caring-citizen-of-Earth-ist? Yes? I can’t hear you. You’re going to have to talk into the computer screen a little louder. Sure, I hear you now, maybe you didn’t understand a few of those words, but I looked them...
Fat Paragraph: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
This is a story about potential, a story for people who want to follow their dreams and for those who already have. This books shows just how much you really make a difference in this world (and in Jonathan’s case many other worlds). In one word, inspirational, but in many, it inspires freedom and purpose,...
Scribe 1/26/12
I apologize that this scribe took a bit longer than I expected. However, comprehensive and lengthy (maybe even overly-lengthy) scribe posts take a lot of time. Important concepts are bolded and/or are included at the bottom of this post. This is on my blog because the formatting got messed up on the original post.
The Noun Project
Have you heard of the Noun Project? It seems I hear things about it all over the place, and there is a good reason why. Imagine every concept humanly imaginable (that is shared among a significant amount of people) having a visual representation or symbol. The founders of the noun project believe in simplicity. Therefore,...
XO-3 Announced
fuseproject just announced the XO-3 as part of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. As pictured, it is a rugged tablet, designed for durability, usability, and aesthetics. What’s more incredible? They plan for it to reach its $100 price-point. If you have never hear heard of the OLPC foundation, it is a non-profit determined...
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