Links for 22-12-2006
The invalidity of opinions, hybrid herb, moronic spelling reform, print-on-demand vending machines…
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“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.”
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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…
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“…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.
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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