"IT'S ONLY A Paper Starship sailing over a cardboard galaxy...."
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN says it's "Lies, All Lies!": Mark Twain wrote more than a century ago: "Everybody lies ... every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception." Deceit is fundamental to the human condition.
TEENAGERS VOTED MOST LIKELY to just shoot themselves.
J.D.ROTH has read a lot of Get Rich Slowly! books so you don't have to.
NERDAPALOOZA: Singularity! - A Tough Guide to the Rapture of the Nerds. You don't need to understand all that stuff to write about the SIngularity. What you need to understand is that after the SIngularity things will be cool. We'll all be PostHumans or UpLoading ourselves into our pocket calculators...
ADVANCED TURF AERODYNAMICS: The Flying Lawnmower.
YES, YOU CAN put your keyboard through the diswasher. ... or, if Ubergeek, you can buy Das Keyboard -- 100% Blank.
JASON HAS 5 Tips for getting good customer support.
YOUNG GIRLS WITH TOO MUCH MONEY, way too much time, and no taste: No longer just for tough guys, glittering grills go mainstream
AMAZON IMAGE ABUSE: "I found that [Amazon doesn't ]actually have all the sizes and formats [of their book covers] stored. Instead, they have a system that generates each requested image. The details of size and format are built into the image's URL. What that means that, if you want, you can create URLs that generate odd and unlikely Amazon images"
INCENTIVIZE INTERACTIVE EYEBALLS... and other randomly generated Web BS.
DONKEY KONG does Van Halen: "You Might As Well Jump!" Wait for the long bridge.
INTEL CEO Paul Otellini "had a startling confession: He spends an hour a weekend removing spyware from his daughter's computer. And when further pressed about whether a mainstream computer user in search of immediate safety from security woes ought to buy Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh instead of a Wintel PC, he said, 'If you want to fix it tomorrow, maybe you should buy something else.' "
INNOCENT FUN: How to lift and swing a man with your teeth.
WHY SMART PEOPLE DEFEND BAD IDEAS: The problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than admit they’re wrong.
BIRD, WORM, AND ALL THAT JAZZ: How to Become an Early Riser
Posted by Vanderleun at March 26, 2005 4:08 PM | TrackBack"Most people would rather plead guilty to murder than to ignorance." -- Alexander Rose, Pay The Two Dollars
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at May 27, 2005 9:33 AM. . . you're reading Lifehacker, aren't you?
Posted by: Yehudit at May 27, 2005 4:55 PMWanna hear something scairy?
I blogged about those gold teeth when I saw them someplace -- I think it was BoingBoing -- and since then I have been getting hits every day from Google searches. A lot of people are interesting in them.
Sheesh. As Menken said, "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public"?
Great takedown of the SIngularity, UpLoading, TRanscending, and all that bizzbazz, and WikiOnAStick for a bonus! Thanks for the pointer.
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