This is a brilliant article on why Starship Troopers is a great movie:
… I don’t see how it could be missed, but a lot of intelligent people got it wrong nonetheless. Or maybe they just underestimated it: Big-budget science-fiction spectaculars like this one aren’t expected to have subtext …
The line between the world of Starship Troopers and Sarah Palin’s Twitter feed gets thinner every day
Well This Is Sufficiently Creepy of the Day: OpenFrameworks developer Arturo Castro shows off his real-time face-swapping technology, created using Kyle McDonald’s ofxFacetracker, Jason Saragih’s facetracker library, and “parts of Kevin Atkinson’s image clone code.”
I have no idea what any of that means, but the result is pretty freakin’ creepy.
In the comments, Castro tells Atkinson he’s currently working on stealing someone’s face in real-time. Falling into the wrong hands in 3… 2…
[h/t: tnw.]
(Source: thedailywhat)
Folklore says if you take any article on wikipedia, and click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, you will eventually end up at Philosophy. Mat Kelcey analyzed every article on wikipedia, and it is mostly true. About 3% of articles don’t make it to philosophy. But the interesting thing to emerge from this data, is that it’s actually a small loop of articles that are at the core of everything on wikipedia. Philosophy is just one of them.
The loop is:
Philosophy -> Reason -> Natural science -> Science -> Knowledge -> Fact -> Information -> Sequence -> Mathematics -> Quantity -> Property (philosophy) -> Modern philosophy -> Philosophy
So by extrapolation, every idea in the entirety of human knowledge is built on this backbone.
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Automatic Tattoo Machine of the Day: We’ve seen homemade self-tattooing devices before, but Chris Eckert’s Auto Ink is slicker, and significantly more dystopian:
Auto Ink is a three axis numerically controlled sculpture. Once the main switch is triggered, the operator is assigned a religion and it’s corresponding symbol is tattooed onto the person’s arm. The operator does not have control over the assigned symbol. It is assigned either randomly or through divine intervention, depending on your personal beliefs.
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Automatic Tattoo Machine of the Day: We’ve seen homemade self-tattooing devices before, but Chris Eckert’s Auto Ink is slicker, and significantly more dystopian:
Auto Ink is a three axis numerically controlled sculpture. Once the main switch is triggered, the operator is assigned a religion and it’s corresponding symbol is tattooed onto the person’s arm. The operator does not have control over the assigned symbol. It is assigned either randomly or through divine intervention, depending on your personal beliefs.
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In the next decade the term “internet culture” will become completely redundant, we will just say “culture”.
Ahhh, planets Sex b. and Sex c. discovered by one J. Johnson.
tee hee!
