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The new “white people” are bigoted, but not the way you think—or they’ll admit.

20th September 2008

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The Atlantic takes a look at Stuff White People Like.

Lander’s White People aren’t always white, and the vast majority of whites aren’t White People (he doesn’t even capitalize the term). … Lander, like many of these writers, traces this group’s values to the 1960s, and there’s clearly a connection between a politics based on “self-cultivation” (to quote the Students for a Democratic Society’s gaseous manifesto, the Port Huron Statement) and what Lander defines as White People’s ethos: “their number-one concern is about the best way to make themselves happy.”

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WowWee’s $300 Rovio robotic sentry ships this month

19th September 2008

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Give it a taser and I’ll take one.

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The Cuffless Cufflink button hack

17th September 2008

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This looks like it will crawl down off the dresser at midnight and go after your enemies.

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Dog calls 911, saves owner

15th September 2008

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Try to find a cat who would do that.

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Coming soon! Killer Mini-drones

15th September 2008

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We have the technology.

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Ferroelectric polarpolymers will chill your beer, save the planet

13th September 2008

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I’m glad to see they got the priority right.

I’d like to wrap this around a number of leftoids, starting with AlGore, with an admonishion to Just Chill.

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Sorry Day in Aggieland

13th September 2008

Apparently Steven Brust doesn’t particularly like Aggies.

Well, I suppose they don’t particularly like him, either….

Don’t know who Steven Brust is? The angels will weep for you. Go to the bookstore and buy a copy of Jhereg. You’ll be glad you did.

Just because Brust’s a communist doesn’t mean he isn’t a great writer, sad to say.

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Scan Toaster puts the power of ‘miracle toast’ into the hands of mere mortals

12th September 2008

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This is very silly. But we have the technology.

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Verayo’s “unclonable” RFID uses physical characteristics to thwart hackers

9th September 2008

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Sort of like a fingerprint for chips.

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Doing my part for Global Warming

9th September 2008

Roy decides to hop aboard the bandwagon.

We have the technology.

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Top 11 Upcoming Smears On Sarah Palin

7th September 2008

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Get your scorecards out.

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Robotic BigDog is US army’s best friend

5th September 2008

Read it. And watch the video.

This is pretty cool.

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Devotees fix it if it’s broke

5th September 2008

The Maker Movement.

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Sonim’s rugged LM801 phone will probably outlast you

31st August 2008

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If Black & Decker made a cell phone, this would be it.

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As Food Becomes a Cause, Meeting Puts Issues on the Table

30th August 2008

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If You Had The ‘Secret’ To Winning The Lottery, Would You Patent It?

25th August 2008

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Really, you can’t make this stuff up.

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Libertarian Dream, Liberal Nightmare

24th August 2008

Blackwater shows what the government could do if used modern business methods.

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MST3K crew appears during the Summer Olympics broadcast?

18th August 2008

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Oddly enough, that makes perfect sense.

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Automobility: The Secrets of Their Success

14th August 2008

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Lotus Concept Ice Vehicle promises to aid arctic expeditions, Thunderbirds missions

13th August 2008

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Needs a machine gun.

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Anti-Obama Books Top Best-Seller Lists

11th August 2008

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Doin’ his best to stimulate the economy.

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Tenn. Defies Cliches on Race and Politics

10th August 2008

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For Nikki Tinker, Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District hung as sweetly as a plum in the state’s Democratic primary. It has a black majority, is full of churchgoing African American women like herself, and includes the hallowed ground where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a white man.

But in an election season in which racial appeals may be losing their power, Tinker discovered that looks can be deceiving. On Election Day, she was crushed by her white opponent, Rep. Stephen I. Cohen, whom Tinker labeled as anti-prayer in one campaign ad and tried to link to the Ku Klux Klan in another.

“It was the first time in a state election where race could have been a factor and wasn’t,” said Larry Moore, an associate professor at the University of Memphis. “She fit the demographic perfectly. She was active in the churches. The majority of voters are female. And she got blown out.”

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Happy Birthday

9th August 2008

To James Lileks.

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Political Perceptions: Best Energy Plan Goes to Paris Hilton

9th August 2008

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PARIS FOR PRESIDENT

DRILL HERE * DRILL NOW

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The Anti-Wedding Cake

9th August 2008

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Times have changed.

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Back away from the 3-ring binder and get a Blizzard

8th August 2008

Lileks on the Back To School season.

Target, as we know, actually exists 45 days in the future, which is why you go for a parka when it’s snowing out and they have shorts and flip-flops.

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Using your browser URL history to estimate gender

7th August 2008

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And you can believe as much or as little as you care to.

Andrew Sullivan scored 92% probably male, so I take it with a grain of salt….

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Twenty-six cheerleaders rescued from lift

6th August 2008

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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New York’s Video Vigilante, Scourge of Parking Enforcers

3rd August 2008

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Markets work even when you don’t want them to: When everyone enforces the law, the law is most efficiently enforced.

I think I’ll call it “democracy”, a term whose original use seems to have faded away.

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Calvin and Jobs

2nd August 2008

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The End Times are here.

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Garfield Minus Garfield: Cult web comic gets book deal

2nd August 2008

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Bricycle electric tricycle actually cooler than it sounds

2nd August 2008

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You want plastic? We got plastic.

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Rabbi on the Roof: N.J. Candidate Gets Taste of Washington

2nd August 2008

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US farmers put sunscreen on their fruit

31st July 2008

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The Church Of Obama

31st July 2008

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Keeping you informed about the important trends of the day.

*Universalist Unitarian Obamaists: This denomination believes there are other politicians besides Obama, but they enjoy the fellowship of the weekly campaign events.  They are the least reliable Obamaists, as they aren’t certain if they will vote for Obama, or if he even exists at all.

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Northrop Grumman’s aircraft-mounted laser moves forward in testing

30th July 2008

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And there was much rejoicing. Break out the jiffy-pop.

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Extremist Steve Sailer is Source for CNN’s ‘Black in America’ Series

26th July 2008

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Steve must be doing something right if the “Southern Poverty Law Center” (a name that is the oxymoronic equal of “Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea”) doesn’t like him.

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PEAK PlasmaBlade electrosurgery scalpel gets FDA approval

25th July 2008

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And the hits just keep on comin’….

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Networks of carbon nanotubes find use in flexible displays

25th July 2008

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SEN. JOHN EDWARDS CAUGHT WITH MISTRESS AND LOVE CHILD!

22nd July 2008

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I always knew he had it in him.

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Coming Soon: The Heller v. D.C. Commemorative Revolver

21st July 2008

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Introducing the Smith & Wesson commemorative Heller v. D.C. revolver! That’s right, the Springfield, Mass.-based gun maker announced Monday it would present engraved Model 442 revolvers (pictured) to the six plaintiffs in the lawsuit that led to the high court’s June 26 decision.

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Time for Some Campaignin’

18th July 2008

The famous video.

American politics in a nutshell. (Emphasis on the nut — sorry, Jesse, no pun intended.)

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Shelby sets out to build Ultimate Aero EV, the world’s fastest electric car

18th July 2008

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Swift … silent … deadly….

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DARPA moves ahead with electronic tags for soldiers

18th July 2008

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Sort of like IFF for ground-pounders. Makes everyone safer from those idiots in the airplanes.

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Photonic breakthrough could mean 60x faster internet speeds

16th July 2008

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At NY Airport, a Room for the Troops

15th July 2008

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Anonymous 4

12th July 2008

The sweetest voices in the universe.

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GEF robot stomps even the most prolific air hockey players

12th July 2008

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Designed by General Electric Fanuc (GEF) and programmed by Nuvation Research, this thing has been able to crush any human opponent that dared step up to its 32-bit automated ways. In fact, it can typically score around three times as many goals as even the mightiest Earthling, and while folks have been smart enough to find loopholes in the 8-bit software, this guy is pretty much invincible when running the real deal.

I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking “air defense control system”.

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Will It Blend? iPhone 3G edition

12th July 2008

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“What is your target market for the iPhone 3G?”

“Journalists who have to write about it, and white people with more money than sense. We work the same demographic as posh restaurants with rude waiters.”

“So you anticipate brisk sales?”

“Certainly. There’s a lot of affluent insecurity out there, and we hope to tap into that.”

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Organic-friendly Americans buy farm shares

11th July 2008

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