The Smug Baldy Speaks

Today, Gizmodo is reporting on a new chip camera than can take 3D pictures. (see the original story on cNet). They speculate that the new technology could show up in digital camera in the near future, and may be potentially useful in medical sensors, and face recognition applications.
That may be so, but roughly half […]

Old-fashioned biscuits are something of an enigma for many cooks. They’re so simple to make, and have such a small number of ingredients, many of us tend to over-think the process. This can lead to disastrous, or at least, not so great results.
My mother-in-law has been making biscuits for about 60 years, and […]

 

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I was sent a link to this on the Escapist Magazine today. This is where Zero Punctuation peels back the cover on Sim City Societies, and finds an existential vacuum.

HT to Angry Alex

Not long ago I was chatting with my brother, and we started reminiscing about some of the TV series that we used to watch after school as kids. Now, many of these have regained a second life on YouTube. Spectrum Is Green!
The Space Giants:

Donny (Dane maybe?) really needs to take a vacation, but will he make it?.
Good demo of the Color Range selector tool, and no juice boxes were harmed in the filming of this episode.

The Bush administration recently bent over and gave us all a peek at where they plan to dig up part of the $150 billion for the as yet unpaid-for emergency economic stimulus package: their ass. Actually, it’s more like they’re using the FCC to pull it out of ABC’s ass. With a charge […]

This comes from MyDamnChannel by way of LifeHacker - it’s a bit tongue in cheek while it takes you through a photoshop tutorial. Very funny indeed.

In the latest issue of the eSkeptic newsletter is a link to an interesting debate held at Cal-Tech between Dinesh D’Souza and Michael Shermer over the relationship between science and religion.
In this debate on what are arguably two of the most important questions in the culture wars today — Is Religion a Force for Good […]

This comes by way of Fark.com via Bad Astronomy, and should be required viewing for any STOS or Elton John/Bernie Taupin fan. Witness history, my friends:

This is a nice little video from loadingreadyrun.com about the future history of the world following Halo 3.