From the Things That Are important Department, who men should carry a pocket knife.
Frankly, everyone should once they are old enough to handle one responsibly.
Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt
How the revolution became digitized – CBS News
Our digital tools are finally being put to good use.
Exclusive First Look — The Official Trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | Entertainment | TIME.com
Dining with Dara: Hops to make locavores happy | Minnesota Public Radio News
I don’t want you all getting the impression that I drink a lot. I actually don’t. And I don’t want you thinking everyone in Minnesota drinks a lot either. I haven’t seen that. However, I *do* lik living in a place that is learning to take its beer seriously.
New Transistor Is A Step Toward Direct Communication Between Machines And Living Beings | TPM Idea Lab
Apparently scientists are finally getting a human-machine translator chip in the works. Granted, this might be scary news but it will probably make a huge difference for those needing prosthetics or in delivering medical care to remote communities.
Also, IBM is making chips that are ever-more-so cognitive in nature.
Sure, this may all lead to Terminators and the end of mankind.
OR…
We might just be at the dawn of a whole new and better set of tools for our species.
Optimism. Try it.
What children’s drawings would look like if it were painted realistically
Europe proposes a “right to be forgotten”
One of the biggest blessings – and curses – of the digital age is that everything can be saved. Even things you don’t want saved. In Europe, they are debating a concept called the right to be forgotten.
Maybe your shopping history and various bits and bytes collected by companies should have a time limit put on them. Hell, I believe they should be unless you expressly opt in.
I hope Europe passes this. Then hopefully, like universal health coverage and interstates and civil rights, American can drag ass and adopt these laws 50 years down the road too.
Food Stamp President(s) – Oh SNAP! – YouTube
So the Bushes did do something right.
Zappos CEO gambles on reviving downtown Las Vegas | Marketplace from American Public Media
There has been a lot of Vegas news recently with the caucus last week. Here is an interview with Zappos’ Tony Hsieh and his plans for downtown.
Zakaria: My interview with President Obama – Global Public Square – CNN.com Blogs
I like Zakaria. He did a decent job on this interview with the President.
I mean, after all the hateful and racist BS thrown at him, it is hard to be critical without somehow siding with the secessionist inbreeders aligned against Obama and still sound educated and earnest, but he does it.
Contrary to GOP propaganda, the President is actually doing what this country needs and hopefully they’ll still be choking on their hate on their deathbeds knowing he was right in most instances. At least, more correct than their traitor queen Palin would have been in the job.
Seriously, how close to utter insipidness did we actually come?
More here for as long as they keep it online.