As long as I’m linking to io9, I might as well recommend this. No point summarizing, just go read. And chat about whatever.
Archives for April 2012
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
April 30 , 2012: the first day that I heard a space lawyer talk about the legal complications of asteroid mining not in a science fiction movie or at a futurist conference but in a regular news item about potential current(ish) events. On Tuesday, plans were unveiled for Planetary Resources Inc., a company founded by …
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Conservatives Aren’t Necessarily Empathy-Impaired…
… but the politically engaged conservatives mostly are. Thomas Edsall, at the NYTimes, on “Finding the Limits of Empathy“: … Ravi Iyer, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Southern California who analyzes the differences in the moral outlook of conservatives and liberals, has posted an exceptionally interesting collection of data on his “Politics and …
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It’s gonna work because I’m pushing it right
Let’s get Tunch a night in the Lincoln bedroom. Update. This is for the Kenyan usurper.
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Gotta have some of your attention, give it to me
Via reader D and many others, no one could have predicted that even a liberal former Republican (and svengali to closet case Republican Senatorial candidate Michael Huffington) turned pageview pimp would back Mitt Romney: “I think it’s one thing to celebrate the fact that they did such a great job. It’s one thing to have …
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Totes SFW Explicit Film
I’m still basically on my work/life-compelled blog hiatus, but I could not so abandon the BJ community as to fail to bring to your attention serious-charismatic-megafauna-gettin’-busy video. Hence, Ladles and Jellyspoons, may I present some awesome rhino porn (h/t ScientificAmerican.com): <div align=”center”><iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/4kSv7sHpp7Y” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe></div> Do read the story framing the clip. There …
Don’t it make my brown eyes blue
I realize that Ryan is ballot box poison for Republicans, but mostly this just makes me mad: ABC News actually compared Ryan with Kevin Kline’s character from the 1993 movie Dave—an endearingly naïve Everyman who accidentally finds himself president and does battle with cynical forces to scrub the federal budget of waste. After showing a …