Godwins Law Ends Healthcare Debate

This is what passes for discourse on health care.

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Google Books Snafu

The method that Google uses to scan books for their Google Books project is pretty interesting. Basically, they take a photo of each pair of pages as the book lays open on a table. Then they use software to digitally "unbend" the image so that it looks like a flat scan. Anyway, it looks like sometimes the person doing the scanning doesn't move quite quick enough for the camera. Check out page 492 and 493 of Charles Babbage's autobiography.

Looking around I found a few other examples from Tech Crunch and Mysterious Ways

It's been a while

since I felt this raw hunger for more knowledge.

Scientists Report Pretty Women Get Laid More Often

This just in:

"In a study released last week, Markus Jokela, a researcher at the University of Helsinki, found beautiful women had up to 16% more children than their plainer counterparts."

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Something Cool From My Buddy

My friend Andrew Goodman just sent me a link to his latest project "Exhumation" - go watch it here.

This piece is particularly well served by reading the abstract/artist's statement, part of which I'll quote here

Exhumation is an interactive piece exploring the role of the image in the creation and perpetuation of scientific racism in the 19th century. Just as a body may be exhumed in order to further a criminal investigation, the text and images in Exhumation represent a body of evidence that has been willfully buried in the hopes of avoiding the persecution of history.

Check it out and visit his his site AndrewLloydGooman.com for more cool stuff.

How to tell if your kid has been using your computer

Me and the kids.