What is the area code for “last century, so”?

“Shit! Biobots! Run for your f**king life!”

“She cooks, she cleans, she lets me do what I want, and I can trade her in every 3 years.”

“He cooks, he cleans, he’s just as happy to snuggle, he always leaves the toilet seat down, and I can rent him out while I’m at work.”

Click for the movie.

Edge.org asked its usual crop of thinkers “What is your formula? Your equation? Your algorithm?“

Microsoft has added traffic aware routing. Not only does it do a terrible job recommending alternatives since apparently it doesn’t know much about arterial traffic, it also recommends illegal maneuvers.

Here is an example:

This also makes me wonder whether Roger Moss lied directly to my face…

Working in Haiti, Shawn Frayne, a 28-year-old inventor based in Mountain View, Calif., saw the need for small-scale wind power to juice LED lamps and radios in the homes of the poor. Conventional wind turbines don’t scale down well—there’s too much friction in the gearbox and other components. “With rotary power, there’s nothing out there that generates under 50 watts,” Frayne says.

NASA, the European Space Agency, the Russian space program, and the Chinese space program are destabilizing the solar system and polluting the upper atmosphere.

Ethanol will cause starvation and not do anything to slow global warming.

Biodiesel puts out large particulate pollution that is bad for human health.

I think the short version of this slice of baloney is that if you are beautiful, people only care what you say and not what you do.  “If you’re going to drive around in a big ol’ Hummer and then buy carbon offsets to mitigate that, that’s like getting drunk on the weekends and throwing some money through the window of an AA meeting and thinking you’re doing something.” Full Slice

Die humans die!
So the planet stays exactly as it is today
Die everyone else die!
So I have plenty of room to play
The only way to stop global warming
Is to stop human borning
Hybrids are just a needle in the hay.

Oh I love nature for fashion’s sake
and living on eastside is great
but commuting to Google I hate to wait
“save the whales, and pave the lake”

I gave a dollar to world peace
and three more to help stamp out disease
but whale killin Injuns I really hate
“so save the whales, and pave the lake.”

Back to nature, that is my line
you know I drink only “Red Mountain” wine
and admire nature along the interstate
“save the whales and pave the lake.”

Blatantly ripped off from Sushi Bandana who wrote most of it.

As promised from last issue, we now present something just a little bit different…  If GOOD radio could truly be called mind candy, you are in for a caloric overload of monumental proportions…  With Wonder Bread in hand, and a BIG thanx to the kindly local Cafe Dionysus crowd, and a special thanx to the Head Waiter hisself, we twist the dial and present for your listening pleasure KGFO AM and FM:

http://www.etext.org/zines/ASCII/Humus/humus.003

“The spacecraft itself will only have to carry a relatively small amount of fissionable material as fuel and will be able to reach speeds of approximately 10% of the speed of light.“

Nick Szabo’s blog is the first one I’ve mentioned, here on Baloney, that I specifically recommend.

Longo has analyzed a sample of 200,000 of elliptical galaxies with redshifts Z < 0.2 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. They look round when their spin axes are pointing directly towards us, and like more or less eccentric ellipses otherwise. So, by correlating their observed shapes with their positions in the sky, one can see if their axes tend to point the same way.The author claims that yes, there’s a statistically significant tendency for them to point towards the direction with right ascension α=202 ∘ and declination δ=25 ∘. In fact, he claims the effect is very strong. Interestingly, the quadrupole and octopole moments of the cosmic microwave background radiation (or CMB) seem to pick out roughly similar directions as being important.

http://tinyurl.com/2fgx85

I think this is Walter’s fractal of the week, but who knows?