Month: October 2008

Botox for World Peace

People with Botox may be less vulnerable to the angry emotions of other people because they themselves can’t make angry or unhappy faces as easily. And because people with Botox can’t spread bad feelings to others via their expressions, people without Botox may be happier too

2012-11-26: for those of you having trouble delivering your lines

Card players who don’t want to give themselves away and tip their hand can turn to using Botox to “allow people to gain a poker face’’ in a service he calls Pokertox.

Cartesian dualism

The latest salvo in the war on Darwin: a resurrection of Cartesian dualism, with the idea that the brain is a physical object, but the mind that inhabits it is made from some kind of ghostly Jesusite-235 that conclusively proves the existence of the Invisible Sky Daddy in a white robe and beard

Signs of despair, and retreat to the last frontier of science. Once Jeff Hawkins decodes the brain these bozos can go screw themselves.

Brains

I love the custard-like richness of brain, though I admit that for some reason I have to make a bit of an effort to edit out my consciousness (and I’m not making a cute joke here) that it’s brain I’m eating. I make that effort because the reasonable part of me recognizes no difference between shank, breast, brain. It’s all from the same dead animal.

Rooting Android

I hacked my camera’s firmware manually by using an exploit to cause it to execute arbitrary code – and then blinking out the entire firmware in 0’s and 1’s on the autofocus LED – read in by a photo transistor attached to a sound cable plugged into my microphone port – and then put back into 0’s and 1’s… Then disassembled the ARM9 code in it and worked on porting CHDK to it… I’m pretty sure having a whole OS at my disposal should make this a lot easier

Godometer

The God-o-Meter scientifically measures factors such as rate of God-talk, effectiveness—saying God wants a capital gains tax cut doesn’t guarantee a high rating—and other top-secret criteria. Click a candidate’s head to get his or her latest God-o-Meter reading and blog post. And check back often. With so much happening on the campaign trail, God-o-Meter is constantly recalibrating!

hilarious and awful at the same time