January 2012
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Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the... →
As we drive the Google car—or are driven by it—I watch the action unfold on the computer monitor mounted on the passenger side of the dashboard. It shows how the car is interpreting the world: lanes, signs, cars, speeds, distances, vectors. The rendering is nothing special—a lot of blocky wireframe that puts me in mind of Atari’s classic Battlezone. (The display is just one of a host of geeky...
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Feng Shui: Life With Art →
hydeordie:
Never thought about how art can be incorporated with the feng shui of your life/home. Interesting! Definitely worth a click through.
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My Papa’s Waltz
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf
My mother’s countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.
You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by...
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What's the name of that Tim Burton movie
The one with Johnny Depp
And Helena Bonham Carter
With the soundtrack by Danny Elfman
The truth is, obedience and respect should not be granted automatically. They...
– George Carlin (via carls-swagan)