Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- What we still don’t know about Lasik – Elective Surgery – Salon.com – Yeah, I’ve always had concerns over doing something like this before it’s had a decade or four to shake itself out. And it looks like that might have been a rational concern.
- Minnesota Rep. Says Burning Coal Is Fine; Isn’t That Why God Gave Us Coal-Fired Power Plants? – “God will save us” is a theological statement, an expression of faith, part of a belief system. It is not, however, good public policy.
- My Puny Human Brain – And congratulations to Captain Dunsel …
- Egypt, 1920s, in colour – Some lovely inspirations for some period writing …
- Global Alcohol Consumption – Some interesting stats here.
- Debbie Schlussel Goes WAY Beyond Just Being the Crazy Lady – “If I were a conservative, I think I would be offended.” Heck, I’m offended at being of the same species as this dolt.
- Having cake, eating cake? – Fungibility for tjee, but not for me!
- Subway-style river maps – Very cool.
- Hand-drawn D&D maps of yesteryear – Hey, he ripped that dungeon map off from my dungeon map! 🙂
- Beck vs. Google – Glenn’s off his meds again …
- Scientology and Lovecraft – Yeah, but Scientology is REALLY scary …
- A Republican in Texas – And my personal anecdote trumps all your fancified pointy-head intellectual statistics, fella, so back off!!
- 9GAG – iWater – HA!
- Not-So-Elementary Watson: What IBM’s Jeopardy! Computer Means for Turing Tests and the Future of Artificial Intelligence | Retort – “I’m leery of following those skyrocketing curves of technological growth to any imminent arrival of machine sentience in the absence of real breakthroughs in understanding how minds arise from brains. At the same time, as Watson does very well demonstrate, we can look forward to computers that can at least seem perfectly intelligent within narrow scopes very soon.” A fair assessment, I think.
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3. An Ultimate Computer reference! Well done, sir.
9. I dug out some of my old maps (c. 1980) and uploaded them. (That’s how I happened to stumble across those other things I scanned for you. And now people are going to wonder what the heck they are an you’ll have to produce them. Mwa-ha-hah!)
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