The invalidity of opinions, hybrid herb, moronic spelling reform, print-on-demand vending machines…

• 1 – You Are Never Entitled to Your Opinion
  “You might own a choice … But your beliefs are not about you; beliefs are about the world. Your beliefs should be your best available estimate of the way things are; anything else is a lie.”
  (tags: democracy society debate philosophy truth entitlement belief opinion bias)
• 2 – Snow bike kit
  “Here’s a cool kit that will allow you to transform your mountain bike into a bike that you can ride on the snow! You just add the front ski and the back rear-drive and you’re set. No tools required.” Awesome! Now all I need is some snow…
  (tags: fun sports kit conversion track snow bike mountain MTB)
• 3 – How Much Does SETI Require Robots?
  “In each artificial life creation story, there is always a cautionary line – questioning the right of humankind to create a consciousness that would otherwise not be present in our universe.”
  (tags: debate philosophy robotics robot intelligence extraterrestrial SETI space)
• 4 – Hybrid Marijuana Plant Found in Mexico
  “Soldiers trying to seize control of one Mexico’s top drug-producing regions found the countryside teeming with a new hybrid marijuana plant that can be cultivated year-round and cannot be killed with herbicides.”
  (tags: cartel smuggling GM modified genetically drugs weed pot marijuana Mexico)
• 5 – Yntrodxkshxn tu Nuspelynh
  “…the line between genius parody and stupidity is so blurred on this one, I’m not going to hazard a guess as to whether it’s exclusively one or the other…” Me neither, but if it’s for real the person responsible should be shot.
  (tags: NewSpelling phonetics education literacy alternate linguistics spelling language)
• 6 – James Gunn on the power of science fiction thinking
  “I believe SF thinking has the potential to save the world, not in specific ways [...] but in the more important general ways. So it isn’t any one thing, but our human outlook that can save the world.”
  (tags: vision foresight thinking philosophy Master Grand SFWA scholar author writer sf scifi fiction science Gunn James)
• 7 – The Espresso from On Demand Books brews you up a copy right fresh
  “The machine can produce two books simultaneously in seven minutes, a time which includes all the printing, binding and cutting involved. The machine even slaps a snazzy laminated full-color cover on its creations.”
  (tags: library technology demand on print POD machine vending publishing books)
• 8 – British queen to podcast Christmas message to the Commonwealth
  “Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is to podcast her traditional Christmas message to the Commonwealth for the first time … the iPod-owning monarch’s festive broadcast will be available to download from the royal family’s website on Christmas Day.”
  (tags: podcast message Christmas Elizabeth Queen family royal UK podcasting)

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