November 2008
53 posts
WatchAnthropomorphic Talking Robot Waseda-Talker Series
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund to serve as special... →
“The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has signed on as a special consultant to the defense of Chistopher Handley, an Iowa collector who faces up to 20 years in prison for possession of manga. The Fund adds its First Amendment expertise to the case, managed by United Defense Group’s Eric Chase, and will also be providing monetary support towards obtaining expert witnesses.
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“I won’t pretend to specialize or present myself as an expert in anything....”
– Pinakothek
Thomas, Frank. Government by contractor is a... →
Dean, Cornelia. A soldier, taking orders from its... →
ubermiester writes:
The New York Times reports on research to develop autonomous battlefield robots that would ‘behave more ethically in the battlefield than humans.’ The researchers claim that these real-life terminators ‘can be designed without an instinct for self-preservation and, as a result, no tendency to lash out in fear. They can be built without anger or...
Make. Hallucination generation trance machine. →
Larabie, Ray. Larabie Fonts. →
Of course, if you’re into that, throw a browser hit or two at the man’s Typodermic, too.
“The truth is that you’re living in a world that no longer exists. I, along...”
– Candace Gingrich, to her brother Newt
“Streetlab is URB’s Artist of the Week!”
– Download the podcast
“Blow up your local!”
– Inflatable Pub
Mussina announces his retirement →
My favorite baseball player, and in a very real sense the reason I love the game as much as I do. All the best to you and your family, Moose!
Mooooooooooose!
GFDL 1.3 released, will allow Wikimedia migration... →
HTML Entity Character Lookup →
The Outsider →
A BBC documentary on Harry Partch, via metafilter.
The Black Belt: How Soil Types Determined the 2008... →
WatchBad Credit No Credit, live @ Pianos: “Shit Hits the Fan”
Bad Credit No Credit at Pianos! →
Tonight (Monday, 17 November)
with Simplifires (all the way from Mexico City!)
Starts at 10, costs $8, will rule!
Pianos is at 158 Ludlow Street (and Stanton) in New York City
Secrets of Talk Radio →
Vimperator →
This is my new crack. It’s a Firefox plug-in to make your browser interface like everybody’s favorite text editor, vim. Hands off that mouse!
Fibre, Yarns & Threads →
In a Novel Theory of Mental Disorders, Parents’... →
“An fantabulous prime concerning the educatee impelling onto midriff schooltime...”
– Flutes: review Yamaha YFL381H
Guitar Music →
The Intrepid Is Back and Hosting President Bush... →
“President Bush will be presented with the 2008 Intrepid Freedom Award in a ceremony attended by New York Governor David Paterson, along with 5,000 guests and 2,500 veterans.”
Mussina earns seventh Gold Glove →
“Yankees righty wins coveted honor for first time since 2003”
Canton of Brokenbridge Fallish Fiber Frolic →
Mr. Ayers’s Neighborhood →
“It’s what we call the human condition, or what I call the conditioned...”
– Shugen Sensei
Tone Generation: audio history of electronic music →
Catholics Turned to the Democrat →
Could Preemption Hurt Drug Companies?
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Bloomberg Gets His Bill, and a Public Earful →
“We have way too many Korg items to name!”
– Streetlab
MTV and MySpace partner to monetize pirated... →
“This is a game changer,” Jeff Berman, MySpace’s president of sales and marketing, told the Times. “This takes us from a world of ‘no’ to a world of ‘yes,’ where the audience gets to curate content, express and share it as they choose, while copyright holders are not only respected, they get to make money.”
