Well . . . I had heard about having other people's servers get overwhelmed by Digg.com, but it hadn't before happened to us. Until today. Last night, I had put up a post about a psychology site that let's you "average" faces, resulting in incredible attractive (mathematically generated) faces of…
Are people concerned about global warming now? Yes, indeed. Even crowds of people in traditionally conservative Idaho. Check out this piece by Melinda Henneberger on Huffpo.
Really, I did. You, too, can create a surreally attractive male or female by using the Face Laboratory run by two experimental psychologists working at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Your hyper-attractive face will actually be made by a computer. You’ll help by choosing the “ingredients” (a few or…
According to Rolling Stone (January 25, 2007), TXU, an electric power company based in Dallas has recently announced plans to build 11 new coal plants in Texas over the next four years. These additional coal plants would put more pollution into the air each year than 11 million SUVs. These…
Here’s one perspective. It’s an excerpt from an article from The Economist, entitled: “Who Killed the Newspaper?”: Having ignored reality for years, newspapers are at last doing something. In order to cut costs, they are already spending less on journalism. Many are also trying to attract younger readers by shifting…