As Paul Hsieh says, you don’t necessarily have to be autistic to find this device useful:
A device that can pick up on people’s emotions is being developed to help people with autism relate to those around them. It will alert its autistic user if the person they are talking to starts showing signs of getting bored or annoyed.
Or maybe cluelessness on this front is one of the defining characteristics of autism.
This will make a big boom:
The test, named “Divine Strake,” will involve nearly 40 times the amount of commercial ammonium nitrate and fuel oil explosive set off in the largest open-air, non-nuclear blast at the site to date. In 2002, 18 tons of explosives were set off at the Nevada Test Site.
700 tons of explosives. This isn’t a weapons test–there’d be no way to deliver that size of ordnance. I’ve got to think that they’re trying to figure out just how small they can size a nuke to (pardon the inadvertent alliteration) bust a bomb-building bunker.
A malodorous canine flatulence minimizer.
But then, who would we blame it on when we have guests over? The cat? The barking spiders?
Amidst exposing other media myths about Iraq, Victor Davis Hanson points out the irony of a press corps that repeatedly accuses the Bush administration of incompetence:
Weigh that success [in Iraq] against the behavior of the media that sees mostly American incompetence. At CBS, Dan Rather insisted to us that a clearly forged memo, but one that fit his own ideological agenda, was authentic. Michael Isikoff relied on one anonymous
Insert both feet. Do they really think that this is going to help their cause? I think that this event is going to guarantee a harsher immigration bill.
[Late morning update]
A flag burning. Of a Mexican flag. In Arizona.
Things are heating up.
“If I get sick, please don’t pray for me.” Or, as he says, at least don’t tell me about it.
“If I get sick, please don’t pray for me.” Or, as he says, at least don’t tell me about it.
“If I get sick, please don’t pray for me.” Or, as he says, at least don’t tell me about it.
“…when the government’s not involved.”
Alan Boyle has been attempting to do some investigative reporting on his home-town rocket company, Blue Origin. It’s certainly been the hardest of the upstarts to get much info on, but it’s a tantalizing story. My inner editor tells me that he needs to end it with an adverb, though. 😉
“…when the government’s not involved.”
Alan Boyle has been attempting to do some investigative reporting on his home-town rocket company, Blue Origin. It’s certainly been the hardest of the upstarts to get much info on, but it’s a tantalizing story. My inner editor tells me that he needs to end it with an adverb, though. 😉