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Barefoot Secession

Upstate Secessionists Demand Freedom From City They Mooch Off Of. this is a great idea. NYC would do much better, as well as singapore per capita if managed properly.

On Sunday, a few 100 people rallied in Bainbridge, New York, a village of 3300 between Binghamton and Oneonta, to promote the idea of upstate secession. The protest was organized by a group called the Divide New York Caucus, which wants to sever the state above Rockland and Westchester counties. Because actually seceding would require state legislative and congressional approval, man-with-a-dream John Bergener Jr. proposes divvying the state into 2 autonomous regions through a voter referendum, calling the new one New Amsterdam, and leaving a figurehead legislature in place at the state level. The pie-in-the-sky scheme is no mere intellectual exercise, its architect insists.

Kinesicmouse

this looks interesting. it’s nice to see a “trickle down effect” from gaming to general accessibility.

The head and face controlled computer mouse. The KinesicMouse uses the Microsoft Kinect for Windows 3D camera for face tracking. Place the camera anywhere in front of you and you are ready to go. No tracking aids like reflective stickers, caps or other head mounted devices are required.

Energetics of future minds

Unless one thinks the human way of thinking is the most optimal or most easily implementable way, we should expect de novo AI to make use of different, potentially very compressed and fast, processes. (Brain emulation makes sense if one either cannot figure out how else to do AI, or one wants to copy extant brains for their properties.) Hence, the costs of brain computation is merely a proof of existence that there are systems that effective – the same mental tasks could well be done by far less or far more efficient systems.

Mormon boob jobs

I wanted to show that god-fearing folks steeped in old-fashioned values are just as susceptible to the effects of shifting sex ratios as cosmopolitan, hookup-happy 20-somethings who frequent Upper East Side wine bars. I have seen more outrageous boob jobs and facial plastic surgery in Utah than almost anywhere in the country—especially among Mormon women. They may claim chastity as a virtue overall, but that’s not stopping anyone from getting a set of double-Ds.

YT olympics

With no specialist javelin coaches in Kenya, the then teenager turned to technology to see what Thorkildsen and other great champions such as Czech Jan Zelezny were doing. “I watched YouTube and it really paid off for me, to see the training techniques and skills they are using

besides all the time wasting & entertainment, there’s the occasional gem like this. he just won gold at the world championship.