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- Favorited Comic about Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage on Boing Boing
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Commented on Proceedings of a 2003 seminar about Timeship, a visionary project designed by Stephen Valentine for storing the frozen remains of people awaiting reanimation
Is it just me, or does anyone else see awesome zombie potential here? Huh, huh?...
- Favorited Chocolate steampunk music-hall in London, Oct 15-17 on Boing Boing
- Favorited The Lessons of Lindsay on Boing Boing
- Favorited Magical short story podcast about Google Book Search, data visualization and the Olde Curiousity Shoppe on Boing Boing
- Favorited The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics on Boing Boing
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Commented on The death of "locational privacy"
Just today a local paper in a near by town of about 100,000 people ran a story about newly installed high res video cameras that are now monitoring folks on city buses. A camera in each bus has a view...
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Commented on The death of "locational privacy"
Just today a local paper in a near by town of about 100,000 people ran a story about newly installed high res video cameras that are now monitoring folks on city buses. A camera in each bus has a view...
- Favorited Guide to N Dimensions on Boing Boing
- Favorited Preview audio from Scott Westerfeld's steampunk YA novel Leviathan on Boing Boing
- Favorited Ariel: post-apocalyptic sword-and-sorcery adventure that rocked my world on Boing Boing
- Favorited Visualizing up to ten dimensions on Boing Boing
- Favorited @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com) on Boing Boing
- Favorited Hugo Award winners and statsporn! on Boing Boing
- Favorited Next-gen implanted hearing aids are also headphones on Boing Boing
- Favorited Midcentury Mexican sci-fi kitsch movies: an appreciation on Boing Boing
- Favorited Hedy Lamarr: '30s film diva, mobile phone tech pioneer, anti-Nazi gadget inventor. on Boing Boing
- Favorited In America, it is increasingly illegal to be poor. on Boing Boing
- Favorited Great Caesar's Ghost: Dery on Rome's Cemetery of the Capuchins on Boing Boing
- Favorited UK road map circa 1675 on Boing Boing
- Favorited Dery and Lecter do Italy on Boing Boing
- Favorited Today at <em>Boing Boing Gadgets</em> on Boing Boing
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Commented on Contemporary photographers of Detroit
Despite the fact that some of these shots are not technically perfect photography (as noted above) I am still amazed by them. They are beautiful for their candor. They serve a valuable purpose to show us the way things are,...
- Favorited James D. Griffioen's photos of Detroit, "the disappearing city" on Boing Boing
- Favorited Six-potato gatling gun on Boing Boing
- Favorited Annie Lennox gives her masters to mashup artist DJ Earworm on Boing Boing
- Favorited Geektastic: anthology of nerdy fiction and comics on Boing Boing
- Favorited Steampunk monkey cigarette card set on Boing Boing
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Commented on Routines are easier to remember when combined with complex "silly" motor tasks
This goes along with the old trick of tying a string around your finger as a memory aid. Sometimes when I'm already in bed and realize that I need to take something to work the next day (or whatever) I'll...
- Favorited Storyville, New Orleans, and the 1947 film with Armstrong/Holiday on Boing Boing
