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Weird blogs best of Who’s first to sell their back for advertising space? This month, McDonald’s. Next month, Monsanto. Who needs a DVD player or computer on a plane when you can watch a movie on your arm? For that matter, when will the implantable iPhone tattoo be available?What other ideas can you come up with?The title character of Ray Brad (Read More)

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Latest from Computerworld Intel Corp. researchers, along with partners from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, are developing technology that can be implanted in peoples brains to operate computers, cell phones and television sets. (Read More)

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Submitted by Deege from Google Reader: A very prominent climate scientist, who writes from a .gov address, sends this to my father after my father simply responded to a scientific query from another climate scientist who put the .gov guy (his colleague) on the distro list (along with a bunch of others, including me):Roger,Please remove me from your email distri (Read More)

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Submitted by Deege from Google Reader: Let me tell you about one of our DUI cases that ended up on the front pages of the Los Angeles Times. My law firm had a young client, I’ll call him "Steve", who had been arrested for drunk driving by the Los Angeles Police Department and a blood sample drawn from his arm. He swore to us that he was innocent, and after inter (Read More)

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KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News Results of massively parallel cortical simulations of a cat cortex, with 1.5 billion neurons and 9 trillion synapses, running on Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Dawn Blue Gene/P supercomputer, will be presented by IBM and LLNL researchers today at the SC09 Conference on High Performance Networking and Computing in P (Read More)

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ScienceDaily: Mind & Brain News Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London.Research repeatedly shows how insects are capable of some intelligent behaviors scientists previously thought was unique to larger animals. This must mean that mu (Read More)

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Boing Boing A gay teenager was decapitated, dismembered, and burned to death in Puerto Rico. The police investigating his murder said he deserved it because of his 'lifestyle.' (via Calpernia) . (Read More)

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Dvorak Uncensored Gaddafi’s BodyguardsGaddafi hires 200 young Italian women – to convert them to Islam — The guy’s barking but you gotta admit he has style.When the hostess agency put out the call for attractive, well-dressed women, under the age of 35 and over 1.7 metres (5ft 7in) tall, it was inundated with responses from hundreds of Roman (Read More)

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Boing Boing Three homeless men in Russia were arrested for allegedly killing a man, eating some of him, and then selling hunks of his flesh to a kebab kiosk. From Reuters:"After carrying out the crime, the corpse was divided up: part was eaten and part was also sold to a kiosk selling kebabs and pies," the prosecutor's main investigati (Read More)

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Dvorak Uncensored Morning Bell: The Fake Jobs of Obama’s Failed Stimulus » The Foundry — Fake jobs, fake districts. The work of fake experts.Forget everything bad you’ve ever heard about President Barack Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus. Combing through the data on the $18 million Recovery.gov website, you’ll find tons of Obama stimulu (Read More)

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DailyTech Main News Feed Chinese censors did their thing with Obama's call for freedom of speech on the internet. (Read More)

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Bad Astronomy Blog German amateur astronomer Bernhard Christ was in the right place at the right time — due to very careful planning and foresight — and captured this astonishing scene:[Click to embiggen.]That’s the International Space Station crossing the face of the Moon, what astronomers call a transit (like an eclipse, but when something (Read More)

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Bad Astronomy Blog What does a star on the edge of death look like? Perhaps not what you think:This series of images [as usual, click to embiggen], from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, will take some ’splainin. Hang on.A supernova — an exploding star — is among the brightest single objects in the known Universe. A su (Read More)

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Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories Betavoltaics, batteries that harvest energy from the nuclear decay of isotopes to produce very low levels of current and last for decades without needing to be replaced, are being developed by Widetronix. (Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/23959/). (Read More)

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Dvorak Uncensored They want to start off with soft sells and travel related items, but you know it won’t stop there if this is successful. Imagine hard sells on insurance, ShamWows and, of course, Viagra for those thinking of joining the Mile High Club.Air travelers in the United States are already paying for sandwiches and drinks, pillows a (Read More)

Dj Spiess

I live in Denver, Colorado. This blog is everything about beer, wine, cider, mead and other spirits. I am a avid homebrewer and winemaker. I’ve been making my own beer and wine for many years. I started making beer when I was in college (mostly because the drinking age in the United States is 21). My first few beers were horrible. The beers are much better now, and I often supply my neighborhood with free beer! It is a great hobby! I’ve been programming computers since I was 10. I first learned BASIC on a Sinclair computer and I’ve been programming ever since. I have a degree in Computer Science from Regis University, and a masters in Computer Science from the University of Colorado - Denver. I currently work as a software engineer consultant. My current favorite video games are Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, and Oblivion - all for the X-Box 360. http://www.fermentarium.com