Rejection 2.0

If someone you recently tried to pick up at a bar told you to e-mail them at a papernapkin.net address,...

Futurama stuff

Hung out with Deco/Ecogrrls and clvrmnky last night. Cewl people. Kicked back with some booze, watched a few seasons of...

Pregnancy

Warning: Olde English beer may lead to creating more videos like this… http://www.oldeenglish.org/pregnancy.html

newfs doesn’t do that

(sigh) What do I have to do to please these guys? OK, we upgrade all these servers to the latest...

Microsoft’s Google-killer arrives with a ‘whuh?’

Google’s executives might be sleeping a little easier this weekend after Microsoft unveiled its much-hyped new search engine. It’s fast,...

European scientists planning robot village on the Moon?

The idea of establishing a robotic ‘village’ on the Moon, perhaps as a precursor to a manned base, has been...

The man who forged Palestinian identity

It was an inadvertent tribute by President Bush to Yasser Arafat’s 36 years as leader of the Palestinians and to...

Sorry Everybody

Some of us — hopefully most of us — are trying to understand and appreciate the effect our recent election...

Uncanny Valley

Although originally applied only to robotics, the principle has been applied to computer animation characters. The Uncanny Valley was considered...

Eerie Christmas: Scary animation derails film adaptation

The thing that often derails the picture, though, is its unintentional eeriness. Blame the computer animation. It makes the characters...