Month: May 2007

Robowatch

This is the great mother of all battles, as predicted by the Bible. It’s going to be the fight between man and machine, between humanoid robots and their cyborgs, and human soldiers. That’s what it’s going to come down to.

oy, oy

NYC Memory Panorama

Stephen, an autistic artist, has a savant’s gift: take him up in a helicopter and show him a city, just once, and he’ll draw you a near-perfect panorama of it later, drawing that even include the right number of windows, “so accurate it’s practically a blueprint.”

i wonder whether we’ll have perfect recall via brain surgery or via implants first 🙂

Bruce Willis, forum troll

What do you when you’ve got millions of $, no steady day job, and plenty of vocal critics that do their best to berate you knowing full well that they could never do your job if given the chance? We might just ask Bruce Willis that very question, but thankfully for all us, he’s already responded. Apparently, Mr. Willis not only finds his way around internet message boards that focus on his films, but he doesn’t hesitate to join in on the oftentimes testy conversations and give users his platinum-laced 2 cents. In a recent go ’round in regard to Die Hard 4, Bruce was caught mouthing off to disbelievers and carpers alike, and while a select few were adamant that this so-called Walter B. was little more than an overzealous fanboy, Bruce did the honorary thing and offered to prove it.

heh. he takes good care of his internet reputation.

Credential hunting

Credentialism‘s rampant spread means that even entry-level paper-pushing jobs like bank teller and office clerk require a university degree, while new diploma programs are sprouting to up the ante in occupations like retail management.

sadly, that was true of my own education as well. i would never hire > 90% of my classmates: most of them lazy paper chasers.