Fascinating concept from an old Schlock Mercenary strip.
An energy shield is also a Faraday Cage. In combat involving energy weapons, how do you tell the difference between ordinance and information?
Heh heh heh. I just found the Cyborg Name gizmo by way of Spoon’s blog.
Of all my names, “droth” yielded the best acronym:
Very apropos, considering the work I’m doing for Cari right now.
My recent interest in RDF has gotten my brain into a grammar-tech mode, and my friend Chuck was kind enough to feed that with this link: Link Grammar.
Apparently these folks have put together an English language parser. Very interesting. Haven’t read it or done anything with it yet, but this kind of tech [...]
Remember those scientists that were wanted by the military when we invaded Iraq because they were working on chemical, biological and nuclear weapons?
Well, they are still in prison:
Bitch Ph.D.
Okay, we know that the weapons programs didn’t exist now. Perhaps there’s a good reason for holding these people anyway. Can we hold a fucking [...]
Little reminder for myself: I’ve got a bike ride to do in six weeks, and I am not yet training for it. Might be a good idea to get it in gear (pun intended).
Training for the big ride
New Firefly media is in the wild on the web!
(Warning - session 416 itself might be a little creepy for some people.)
Session 416 - Master
Slashdot is calling this ‘viral marketing’ - it’s a way of marketing something, usually a movie, by distributing bits of media that purport to be real, but relate to something [...]
Well, Pat Robertson is out of his fucking mind.
Apparently, political assassination is a valid exemption to that whole “Thou shalt not kill” commandment.
CNN.com - Robertson: U.S. should ‘take out’ Venezuela’s Chavez - Aug 23, 2005
Looks like Utilikilts is has some competition: Amerikilts.
I might have to get myself one of these bad boys and see how they compare to my trusty Mocker.
A friend who is going away received a gag basket of condoms at her party. As we were leaving, a huge thunderstorm erupted outside.
Her: “Eek! I don’t want to get my condoms wet!”
Me: “That’s kind of the point, isn’t it?”
I crack myself up.
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