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LA100 Drone

not bad for $1300

Spook blogging

aww, so cute, damage control mode:

Created at the direction of the President of the United States, IC ON THE RECORD provides immediate, ongoing and direct access to factual information related to the lawful foreign surveillance activities carried out by the US Intelligence Community.

sure, whatever you say.

NEOWISE

During 2010, NEOWISE observed ~158k rocky bodies out of ~600k known objects. Discoveries included 21 comets, more than 34k asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, and 135 near-Earth objects.

The actual critical reading

the bible is one thing, but when can we apply this to the constitution vs other laws, etc? There’s a whole useless cottage industry about critical reading, but are they doing anything of consequence?

This website aspires to be a beautiful and interactive resource for skeptics and believers alike to explore some of the more negative aspects of holy books. It was heavily inspired by the Reason Project’s poster of biblical contradictions, which in turn was inspired by Chris Harrison’s Bible Visualizations.

the 40B expense account

this might have been better with a tldr; version, but basically this guy is the most profligate spender in history: about $40B before the party ended.

introducing the π filesystem

One of the properties that π is conjectured to have is that it is a disjunctive sequence: all possible finite sequences of digits will be present somewhere in it. if π contains all possible files, why are we wasting exabytes of space storing those files, when we could just look them up in π!

Software, trust, and proof

A recently developed high-performance OS microkernel supports the capability security model and comes with a formal specification and machine-checked proof: it’s called seL4.

Bigelow Aerospace

bigelow is a great partner to spacex. if i’m reading their plans correctly (big if) they are planning to put up 3x the habitable volume of ISS by 2015, and have plans for 10x.

Get PRSM

You’ll find every person you’ve ever known. Even grandma. Don’t ever worry about not sharing again.

what are you thinking about?

truth.