The Somewhat Ambitious

Remember SETI? Everyone got really excited about it back in 1999 when they introduced the SETI@Home screen saver (Jesus, remember screen savers?), allowing people to use spare processing power on their magnificent Pentium 1 monsters to parse cosmic radio waves for evidence of intelligent life. Well, the bad news is that, as yet, no such [...]

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Sometimes I look about at the state of the world and it makes me long for the days of yore, simpler times all, where a man was a man, a woman was a woman and midgets were included in the food pyramid. Gone now are the days of easy utilitarianism, where the ends always justified [...]

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Sometimes the simple things are the best.
To further illustrate this truism, here are Tony Shaloub and Sam Rockwell further illustrating this truism. At the 4:20 mark.

/Paul
(link via fuckyeahstartrek.tumblr.com)

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Oh, hey there mouse, how you going? Me, I’m gre- HOLY SHIT YOU’RE FLYING. OH GOD. OH GOD. THE DAY HAS COME. THE GREAT MOUSE RECKONING IS HERE. QUICK, FEED THEM THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST. WE HAVE TO GET AWAYYYYYYYYYYY!
Was my first reaction to the news that scientists at NASA had succeeded in levitating [...]

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So, you’ve bought your dream home. It’s huge. Like fucking huge. There’s bedrooms, master bedrooms, servant bedrooms, Presidential bedrooms and a dungeon. There’s decorative fountains, chandeliers and a super fun happy slide that goes all the way from the highest turret to the entrance hallway (oh yes, this dream house is also a fully fortified [...]

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I love, almost beyond my ability to describe it, the fact that there is an entire sub-genre of scientific endeavour devoted to feeding various animals psychotropic substances. Basically there is a group of scientists whose day to day job essentially involves them picking an animal and then deciding how they want to make it party. [...]

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I’ve always contended that robots were pretty much the single most disappointing thing about growing up. When you were a kid robots were Transformers, giant mechanised beings capable of both changing into a variety of vehicles and beating the living piss out of one another. And then you grew up and you realised that robotic [...]

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Ever heard of a ‘smile check policy‘? Yeah, me neither. I once had to get my retina scanned to get into a public restroom, but the employees at Keihin Electric Express Railway in Japan actually have to smile. And no, I don’t mean they’re encouraged to, they fucking HAVE to. Facial recognition software is used [...]

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When I was five, way back when in the heady computing days of 1990, my father dazzled the family by bringing home our first PC – a large, grey, boxy 286 Amstrad with a DOS prompt, a 5 1/4 inch disk drive and a black and green word processor. And I loved it. Yes, even [...]

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In gaming news, the World of Warcraft mount system has been significantly overhauled. Or at least it will be, in patch 3.2, the same patch which will usher in the awesome new Tauren bear/cat forms, and the horrendously gay bedazzled Night Elf bear/cat forms. Sideburns and eyeliner ftw!
Below are some of the changes involved. Prepare [...]

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