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“E aí também um pensamento esquisito na cabeça: talvez valha mais uma Alice voando do que mil Alices com os pés no chão.”(Alice em Alice – minissérie brasileira da HBO)
Robot Pack to Hunt Uncooperative Humans (1)
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Listen up contractors, Uncle Sam wants you to develop a “Multi-Robot Pursuit System” to go after “non-cooperative” humans. Before you utter a resounding “wtf?” consider this: last year iRobot cooked up a deal with Taser International to mount stun weapons on military robots. Wait…what? Now we will have roaming packs of bots tasing hippies? Pretty much. Steve Wright, expert on police/military tech from Leeds Metropolitan University said of pack-hunting bots: What we have here are ...
Palin gets pranked (1)
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A Canadian radio station has scored what must be the biggest prank call of the year – by calling VP candidate Sarah Palin, and pretending to be French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Classic stuff – fake Sarkozy tells real Palin he would love to go hunting with her: “I just love killing those animals […] I’d really love to go as long as we don’t bring your Vice president Cheney.” Later in the conversation (which lasted ...
First dogs in Aurignacian? (1)
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I haven't seen this paper, so can't comment on the results, but the story is worth passing along: An international team of scientists has just identified what they believe is the world's first known dog, which was a large and toothy canine that lived 31,700 years ago and subsisted on a diet of horse, musk ox and reindeer, according to a new study. The discovery could push back the date for the earliest dog by ...
Another Buck Down (1)
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NOTE: This is the debut of a new feature - each story I write about, I’m going to place the video of me telling it at the end of the story. I just thought that some folks may not like to sit and read text, but they might enjoy hearing it told, so I’m going to do this with each of the stories I write. Feedback is appreciated! View the video of the story at ...
Carl Zeiss combines spotting scope, digital camera with the PhotoScope 85 T* FL (2)
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Filed under: Digital Cameras, Misc. Gadgets Esteemed lens manufacturer Carl Zeiss is breaking new ground by releasing the PhotoScope 85 T* FL, a spotting scope that also serves as a seven megapixel digital camera -- just in case "super-zoom" wasn't enough for you. With 15 - 45x magnification, a focal length of 600 - 1800 mm, a flip-out OLED display, and an IR remote for vibration-free release, it's great for birdwatchers but perhaps even better ...
They say: no one with a uterus should vote for McCain (1)
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The actual title of this post over at the blog A Little Pregnant is "Why no one with a uterus should vote for John McCain." Despite the fact that I am someone who is without a uterus, I still felt that this argument needed to be shared with Babble readers.Here is the opening salvo of the strongly but calmly worded argument against the Republican vice-Presidential candidate:Senator John McCain, Republican candidate for president, on late-term abortions, ...
AIG Executives Help Themselves To $86,000 Hunting Trip [Money Meltdown] (3)
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The AP is reporting that AIG executives aren't done partying yet — they took an $86,000 hunting trip even as the company was requesting an additional $37.8 billion loan from the Federal Reserve. Meanwhile, New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo has said that as long as the company continues to be propped up by the taxpayer — he has the power under state business law to review and possibly rescind any inappropriate AIG spending. In ...
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