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via my main man, John Welch.

Stop…

…in the name of corporate training!

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Ray Kurzweil Does Not Understand the Brain →

Via Pharyngula. Techno-utopianism always makes me cranky.

Monochrome

The brown and yellow was getting on my nerves.

The Empathic Civilization

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Another nifty animation from The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce — this one illustrating a talk by Jeremy Rifkin, author of the Empathic Civilization. I haven’t read this yet, but I just added it to my iBooks queue.

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Neutronium Soul

“God damn I have a soul-crushing job,” the fucktard next to me announced to no one in particular.

I pried my gaze up from the foamy depths of my pint and turned to him.

“You wait tables at a Sizzler.” I replied. “I spend my days listening to The Least Interesting Man in the World explain how not to grab your secretary’s tits. Soul-crushing? Mother-fucker, my soul is neutonium.”

Mexican States Ordered to Honor Gay Marriages →

Yet another reason for the honkeys to fear the brown invasion. Also, when Mexico is doing better on Gay Rights — well that’s just fucked.

Obligatory Google Wave Post

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So, yeah, Google put the kibosh on Wave this week and now we must endure the inevitable tsunami (Ha! A “wave” joke) of post-mortems from the tech press. See, there’s an unwritten rule in the punditsphere that says that the volume of babble produced when a product fails is directly proportional to the amount of hype from the tech press when the product was announced.

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CA Prop. 8 Overturned

Congratulations to the sane people of California.

As a general note to others on the Left, this is how you get a bad law changed: through the ballot box and the courtroom — not by hyperbolic vitriol from overindulged celebrities.

Christina Warren on the iMac vs. Mac Pro Decision →

Christina concludes that the 27″ iMac is still one of the best computers you can buy. I think that the ever-decreasing gap between the iMac and the Mac Pro indicates that Apple no longer views the Mac Pro as a “consumer” machine. In Apple’s view, the iMac is the consumer desktop and the Mac Pro is a professional workstation. I don’t think that they worry about one cannibalizing sales of the other at all.