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UWEE does cool stuff too sometimes!

“When coupled with a robust nutritional database and a powerful back-end server, the DDRS can calculate energy intake on the fly, allowing doctors, researchers, and health-conscious individuals to observe objectively even the smallest details about eating habits.”

In other words: Ultra-precise nutrition facts.  Automated calorie counting.  Ubicomp meal prep.  I like it. 

Ice Cube’s good day (i.e. “Today Was a Good Day”) could only have been January 20, 1992.

Hip hop forensics, everyone.

murkavenue:

CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993…

Hard-to-reach opt-out pages for the win.

h/t Zach

Honk honk.

Shit, meet fan.

Wikipedia is pulling their plug on Wednesday to stop the PROTECT IP act.  They are not the only site.  This is a big deal, and companies are wasting millions of dollars worth of up-time to call our attention to it.  Repeat, lots of people are in on this.  Many of the protesting websites would even be illegal to operate under the proposed laws.

Look it up.  Think about it.  Call your senators, or even just go to MoveOn.org if you’re feeling lazy. Get your weight behind this, because if we don’t, “fair use” is going to get a whole lot less fair.

I’m sorry I ever made fun of you, Jimmy Wales.  My check’s in the mail.

stasischamber:

As young fanatics many Star Wars enthusiasts are eager to learn as much as they can about the environment of one of the most painstakingly-, and lovingly-, developed fantasy worlds ever created.  My bookshelf still has an entire section dedicated to books that outline the background of the franchise: the ships, weapons, locales, and people of the “expanded universe” that encompasses the comics, novels, even radio dramas that expand on the classic movies.

As the franchise continues to grow, new releases like the MMORPG The Old Republic and the Clone Wars cartoon continue to treat these publications as canon, giving fans the chance to eventually see, or even fight, things like the Kintan strider or the nexu for themselves.

Collected here is a sample of the art available in one of said books, The Illustrated Star Wars Universe.  Written from the perspective of a galactic surveyor, it goes into detail on aspects of the different planets that the movies never quite get to.  Goofy premise aside, its pages contain excellent concept art featuring many expansive landscapes and awesome alien species. 

stasischamber:

Many of us have read enough Orwell and enough cyberpunk to know that control over information and our thoughts is an important modern issue.  Apparently a hacker group in Germany is being a bit more pragmatic with their solution.

stasischamber:

To this day, taking on the role of our modern day philosophical texts, literature in science fiction asks: just what comprises human consciousness?  More specifically, what happens to our human minds once you extract us from our human bodies?  

Simon Frank gives a set of hypothetical answers to this question in “After Life,” a mind-bending story of the first human to digitize himself, and the consequences to the world and everyone in it once he does so.

Here’s a sci fi blog I’ll be contributing to.  It’s awesome.  Trust me.