reinventing the wheel

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ffranchi/4082412529/sizes/o/

China vs. Copenhagen

How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room.

Interesting piece about just what went on at the disastrous Copenhagen summit, which apparently went perfectly according to plan.

The AI used in Left 4 Dead

It's all over the place. Did you know that the AI director will send fewer zombies at you if you kill them from close up than if you snipe them from far away?

Funny man loses camera

BEHOLD

Re: Meg

my reply to your amazing find. Note this comic is kinda twisted and by kinda i mean extremely.
Enjoy!

http://www.iheartchaos.com/content/dont-drink-kool-aid-oooh-yeah-pic

A thought-producing comic, read to end before you judge me:

"product"!

Conspiracy fact

You know how people are always saying that politics in this country are controlled by the super rich? You know how it sounds vaguely plausible but also sort of like a conspiracy theory? Meet the Koch Brothers.

Yahoo's "7 foods experts won't eat"

Yeah, it looks like a lot of these 'experts' are a little biased, but it sort of makes you think. Pretty surprised at the canned tomatoes thing.

Nom Nom Nom

This speaks for itself:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/52aad30152/cat-says-nom-nom-nom?rel=player

The three most important letters in health care reform

Have you ever heard of the MLR? It's the percentage of health insurance premiums that the company actually spends on medical treatment. And it's very important.

"A case in point is Aetna, the nation's third largest publicly-traded health insurance plan. Three years ago, the company reported that its quarterly MLR had inched up from 77.9 percent to 79.4 percent in 12 months. On the day this was disclosed, Aetna's share price plunged 20 percent as investors sold off their shares, reducing the company's market value by billions of dollars."

Play this 60-second game with the sound on

KISSMA

Robot scientists are takin' our jobs

"Eureqa is descended from Lipson’s work on self-contemplating robots that figure out how to repair themselves. The same algorithms that guide the robots’ solution-finding computations have been customized for analyzing any type of data."

Won't be long now 'til the robocalypse.

Brain time!

UCSD is currently slicing up HM's brain into large ultrathin slides, if you want to watch.