Will we be eating differently?

We’ll grow in vitro cloned meats in factories that are computerized and run by artificial intelligence. You can just grow the part of the animal that you’re eating. Some people say, “Oh, that sounds yucky.” I say, “Well, why don’t you go visit a factory-farming installation? You’ll find that getting meat from living animals is yucky.” But we’ll need a marketing genius to sell the idea.

Speaking of marketing, what idea about the future do you have the hardest time selling?

People are most resistant to the idea of dramatic extensions to life expectancy, because it affects every decision they make. They have this cycle of life in mind. People sort of wax philosophical–”Oh, I don’t want to live past 100.” I’d like to see them say that when they’re 100.

More at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2033076,00.html

If you are the slightest bit interested in how the world around you works, then you owe it to yourself to watch the 1983 Fun to Imagine series by Richard Feynman. http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/feynman/

I wish I had a teacher like this in school…

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gc-10-dragon-age-2/702958

So fricking excited right now. Bioware really needs to make a full-length movie with their mad CG skills.

A German student “mooned” a group of Hell’s Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10333211

It doesn’t matter how much you make up when writing fiction, the real world will come up with something odder.

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Louis Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Albert Einstein.” ~H. Jackson Brown

With Openbox on Ubuntu 10.04 I kept having an issue where VMWare would randomly destroy my key mappings and stop my ctrl and alt keys from working correctly, the only solution seemed to be restarting openbox or X, and in the middle of work that’s not an option. So here’s a command to reset your keyboard with the least amount of disruption:

setxkbmap us -print | xkbcomp - $DISPLAY

A much better solution than restarting X. Took me ages to find this, so hopefully this helps someone. I’d still like to find a fix instead of a workaround.

The anecdotal benefits of esoteric languages are a selection
effect. Here is a common scenario. Lots of really smart
programmers think they are too good to waste their talents doing mere
application programming. But they also love esoteric languages that show
off how smart they are. So you can get them to do application
programming by letting them use their beloved smarty-pants languages.
Presto, amazing results. But the ubermensch aren’t about to stoop to
maintenance programming. Once the fun development is done, they are
gone. When you bring in professional programmers to take care of things,
they are dumbfounded by the towering monument to mental masturbation.
The system gets thrown out and rewritten in a normal programming
language using normal techniques that normal people understand. The
super programmers blame it on the stupidity of the new hires, further
confirming their sense of superiority.

http://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=392

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family.
Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars,
compact disc players and electrical tin openers…
choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning.
Choose sitting on that couch watching mindnumbing,
spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth.
Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home,
nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you spawned to replace yourself.
Choose your future. Choose Life …

For only R1800 each, I took my dad and I out on the ultimate ride in a 1963 Huey helicopter from V&W Waterfront to Blaauwberg for some batshit combat simulation flying. Best birthday presents ever!

Take off at high speed.

Surfing extremely close to the waves. Think I saw some surfers duck.

Crazy backflips and stomach turning fun.

Cruising extremely close to the ground along a dirt road.

Doing a backflip over a hill at high speed.