What would you do if the bank started offering you your own deposits back to you as loans, without adding the amount of the deposit to your net worth? Isn’t this essentially what the loan and fee structure of modern… Read more…
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Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
The old method used by the government of blacking out names in documents has ended. Now they use context sensitive grammar to play semantic Scattergories with people’s communications, putting lives, fortunes, and well-being at risk. We are all innocent fawns… Read more…
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…
I think iTunes, Netflix, Steam, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Video, Soundcloud, Facebook, and all other online media services should make their playcounts and download numbers public, with user IDs, even those of authority figures, so that artists and media creators can… Read more…
Bringing it All Together
New game idea: “Neverborn: Brush with Death”. Game is realistic as opposed to cartoony. The setting is dystopian, high-tech transhuman, body-mod Cyberpunk, mashed up with hipster beards and brown-suits gothic Steampunk. Character skills include Computer Science and Hacking, Technology Modding and… Read more…
Dual Classing Scientist
Mathematicians cum Computer Engineers use the word “Ring” to describe a Set of Arrays, as opposed to a Set of Elements. These Sets of Arrays can be [permuted] via reorganization of the Elements in the Arrays, or of the Arrays… Read more…
Don’t Phase Me, Bro
If you browse a mobile website on a big monitor, sometimes the mild force feedback that’s supposed to be going into a mobile user’s hands goes into the computer user’s face in a highly magnified fashion, because the computer display… Read more…
Joysticks and Jute Sacks!
Geography is an undervalued science. What if the geographical advancement of a culture, through it’s efficiency-restricted logistics, could be used to forecast the future placement of cities, allowing a city to be attacked based on a knowledge of the places… Read more…
Gibs and Greif!
What if recent intimations in society regarding the holographic nature of the universe, and the idea that life is a virtualization are merely outgrowths of the 3D video game industry’s success in mastering the nature of reality into mechanical simile?… Read more…
Current Events: Modern Computing Travails
Ahhh, the Windows 8 experiment is over almost before it started. The world of computing is very different today than what it was only less than a decade ago. It seems everything can be turned off remotely at the flip… Read more…
Current Events: Time Dilation
Boo to mail.google.com. Boo to mail.microsoft.com. Boo to Microsoft Exchange. mail.google.com has a vicious lag in loading my inbox. mail.microsoft.com is sending me spam messages from my own email address. Both are umbrellas-sites, bordering on the criminal in utility. Does the… Read more…
Current Events: Blue Sky
What are all you’s guys using for internet transfer? IPX, ISDN, TCP/IP, FiOS, Dish, SMS, 3G, 4G, et cetera? I’m wondering if I can get better network content by switching transfer protocols. A lot of my content appears to be… Read more…
Current Events: Media Dearth (NSFW)
If you’re unsatisfied with your video download options, try downloading additional media players and codecs, like DivX, VideoLan’s VLC player, the K-Lite package (R.I.P Kazaa), and Matroska. It might open up new media for your perusal. If a movie seems… Read more…
Current Events: Hospital Corruption
Some hospitals lie about patients’ weight with broken equipment, or give them weight-gain substances mixed in with their medications, so they can overprescribe doses based on wight charts when passing out psychoactivating medications. In places where good drugs are distributed,… Read more…
Not You Too, Hawking!
We don’t often get new insights into astrophysics, but I have one about Stephen Hawking that may tickle your fancy. In Hawking’s book, A Brief History of Time, a theory is expounded upon in which time slows down as you… Read more…
Will Post for Food
In a perfect world, users would pay service providers for downloads and charge service providers for uploads, based on a ranking and voting system that quantified the user-defined value for both. If the thing being downloaded is ads, users should… Read more…
My Life Was Saved by Rock and Roll
CD purchases are traditionally far less seedy in content than internet-purchased music. Cassette tapes are even better. I would imagine LPs would be an improvement over that. Who listens to free radio anymore, anyway?
Not Too Friendly, but Technically Correct Speech
I don’t favor public speakers that use excessive amounts of ingressive speech patterns in their dialogues. Ingressive speech is all about the production of sound while sucking the vocal medium (usually air) INTO the lungs. It’s a good tactic for… Read more…
I Miss Canned Beans
Pills, pills, the magical fruit, the more you pills, pills PILLS PILLS!
Electro M&M Flux
Thinking of physics while choking down the government dole. Green runs, Yellow chases, Blue hovers. Repulsion, Attraction, and Charge around an Atom.
“It Takes Money to Make Money, Suckaz!”
Banks are currently able to loan out $10 for every $1 they take in from deposits. This devalues the currency by 90% on a yearly basis. This ten dollars is often used to purchase real world goods by banks’ clients,… Read more…
“Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, it is the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.” -Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
The ideal thinking paradigm: 1/5 existentialist (does something exist or not?). 1/5 wisher (can something be made to exist or not?). 1/5 human calculator (how does something relationally exist in respect to other things?). 1/5 probabilitally statistical value judger (is… Read more…
You Want Me to Fall Through the Earth Before Multiplying for Friction?
I had a nightmare just now that I had forgotten to use the mathematical order of operations when performing physics calculations. When I woke up, I thought about it, and realized that, in physics, there is nothing worse than obeying… Read more…
As Is Always the Case for the Relative, Time Remains Invariant
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Every person you have as a significant other should be treated differently than the person you had before. Each person you are no longer seeing should be remembered fully for who they were, at the time you knew them, as… Read more…
Two Girls, One Cup
The images on TV, computer, and radio aren’t verifiable as actual things. They are only a representation of things, which may or may not exist in reality, which may or may not exist, itself, anyway. Interacting with the things on… Read more…
The Prince and The Pauper
Imagine you are supremely wealthy as a result of massive fortunes placed in your name by your family and friends due to your good character and hard work. Imagine you are not aware of this wealth except to say that… Read more…
Cat’s Sass
Ugly cats are often preferred to purebreds as pets by people, because they are easier to identify. Some would go as far as to relegate purebreds to the catfood industry. Speaking of cats, recent observations of a particularly wild specimen… Read more…
“Allow us to take 50 % Off”
I think most restaurants would be happy if you divided the total by 100/15ths, then subtracted from the billed amount when paying as a tip; most multiplication operations terminate before divisions in terms of number of digits in the outcome. More decimals… Read more…
Human Life: Approximate Retail Value Variable
Sadly, I think the penalty for the pet store flower I accused the balding, long-blonde-haired employee (The one that looked like my high school Euphonium rival (but wasn’t!)) of taking out of my bag after breaking my plastic fish… Read more…
Extemporaneousness is Fail
I hate rushing. I hate dragging. I hate people who drag rushingly and rush draggingly even more. Suggested Listening: Ludacris – Back for the First Time – Get Off Me
I Got Drunk, I Saw Weirdness, I Was Overcome
“Vini, Vidi, Vinci” Were wine-filled amphorae the molotov cocktails of the ancient Phoenicians? There might be a problem if they were watered-down, but that usually happened at point-of-sale.
Voiceless Counting
Did you know you can generate more than five things to count with using just the fingers on a single hand? This may come in handy for use in complex languages and counting systems. You’ll find that the bits on computers… Read more…
Persnickety Sitch
A description of a bad life getting better can be refactored rather easily via multiple means into a description of a good life getting worse, in effect, making a bad life even worse. “I won, by doing x, y, and… Read more…
Oneness
If you divide 2 identical things very carefully into two identical parts each, with each part identical to the originals except for their decreased scale, you will see four things before you as a result, but due to conservation of mass, you should maintain awareness of… Read more…
P.E. : Physics Education
Physics classes in high school are taught in such a way as to have a balance between the kinetic and the potential energy of a motive object in a “fixed system” at a given “fixed moment” in time. We then look at… Read more…
Lyricated Chiptunes
*Intro* [I don’t need you. I don’t need you. I don’t need you. I don’t need you. I don’t want to. I don’t want to. I don’t want to. I don’t want to. I don’t like you. I don’t like you. I don’t like you…. Read more…
Automated Anything Processors
Thanks for the spying relevancy and delivery, Digg. It always weirds me out when my doodles and diagrams hit my social media front pages days or weeks later. This is what I found waiting for me on Digg a few… Read more…
I Heard It Through the Grape Vine
Organizations that use DHCP (Dynamic Hardware Configuration Protocols) for their IP Address assignments, so as to maintain client and corporate security, universally suffer massive efficiency failures related to packet tearing, due to low lease times and complexity of encryption on… Read more…
Squiddly Diddly
It is very difficult to conceive of a perfectly spherical nautilus, but that is, in essence, what a true sphere strives to overcome. { ( ( _It_^1 : is ) < ( very – difficult ) ) : ( to… Read more…
To Boldly Come
Star Trek: The Next Generation. Slap your boobie to talk to the crew on away missions. Star Trek: The Original Series. Slap your boobie to get glittery fingertips before manhandling that sexy green alien.
Dino Soup
The word “dinosaucer” is English for, “Awesomely huge and powerful plate.” Remember, everyone, they lived for tens of millions of years before us, so I don’t think anyone will mind a few trillion bones, or barrels of oil, for that… Read more…
TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!
So…fraternities and sororities are pretty much just a combination of gay civil unions and polygamy, whilst defying sexual transgressivity.
Game On!
There’s no other feeling in the world like trading card games. Is The Game, “The made up rule sets and powers of the characters and ideas you play with using the cards when gambling,” or is The Game, “The act… Read more…
The Ultimate Anti-Lying Truthout
Combinations and permutations of these techniques, and mastery of their countermeasures are left to you, dear reader: … Read more…
Betray Not Those Who Kill To Teach, For Their Lesson Are Endless
A synopsis I produced of sensory dissonance I was exposed to at one of my hospice respites follows. Methods of MysLeading SomeOnes, OR: How I Got Lost, Got Cheated, and Got Fooled Pheremone/Musk spraying to misdirect smell and attract predators and… Read more…
sUPRAcURRENCYiNDICATION
[ONE, TWO, SKIP A FEW…THREE, FOUR, SKIP SOME MORE.] [IN SERT CRED IT] *clink, thunk, plink* [PEN NY RE CEIVED.] [PLEASE EN TER A COM MAND.] (1)+1+1+1+1 /Return [= 5] /Print5CentCoin *ching* [PLEASE RE MOVE NIC KEL] [IN SERT CRED IT]… Read more…
Bait and Lure
Can you conceive of any reason why someone would cover an expensive, technologically-advanced, multi-use, tar-paved road with dirt and gravel, then draw a sideways branch out of it that approximates the low-tech surface features? What might you hide at the… Read more…
Planning Ahead Versus Foresight
Did you know you can perform a subtraction function without counting backwards from the higher number to the lower number, thereby “removing” one amount from another? Simply add one unit to the lower number, while keeping track of how many ones you… Read more…
Sexual Categorical Imperative
Imagine for a moment that every man on earth dies at the same moment, and has their genitals harvested for randomized artificial insemination, leaving behind an entire planet of single mothers who would then go on to raise an entire… Read more…
Fizzy Rail
Localized, buzzing teleelectric wire with radiating cylindrical emissions following a repeating pattern with discrete substructure. Wire. Ow. Ow. Ow. Must report to operating authority. Repairative agent will record radial waves and look for waveform encoding, then repair the emitters that… Read more…
Marvelling Martian
It would be super funny to fly a spacecraft close to the sun with a giant magnifying glass and several strategically mobile, unattached, mirror coated, point-directional assistive focusing dishes around it, and then point it at other planets to see… Read more…