“The Kindle Fire is the Fruitcake of Tablet Devices”

I posted back in November about my struggle with the Kindle Fire.  It’s lack of proxy support and the inability of the device to reach the general Android App store (you’re chained to the Amazon App store).  I finally gave up and switched to an iPad.  Apparently I’m not alone.

Amazon Tablet Share Fell to [...]

Science Wednesday: The Search for the Higgs Boson

More Neil De Grasse Tyson

My favorite astrophysicist is all over the news, and unfortunately people are not listening to him enough. He should be on Meet the Press, Face the Nation etc… People like Paul Ryan should shut up and take notes when Mr. Tyson speaks, and maybe they would learn something!

BB Is Watching!

And just like Santa, he’ll know if you’ve been naughty or nice.

Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. [...]

NASA

While this has nothing to do with the state of Wisconsin politics at the moment its a great distraction! Here is Neil DeGrasse Tyson testimony of the Past, Present and Future of Nasa:

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and [...]

Monty Python’s Holy Book of Days

For the iPad enabled Python!

I keep telling you guys that Google is big brother!

The Keystone XL Kops

There is an existing pipeline from the Canadian oil sands into the United States…lets call it the Keystone L Pipeline for fun. It essentially runs a few hundred miles east from the Athabasca Oil Sands in eastern Alberta Canada before heading south into the United States. The Keystone L Pipeline currently terminates at a refinery [...]

STOP the NOISE!!!

Please you’re giving me a headache. I can not handle anymore right wing crying wolf about “massive fraud”. We recently collected more than 1 million signatures to recall Governor Scott Walker(540,000) were needed.

As soon as the signatures were turned in, the right wing took to their airwave monopoly with their stories of fraud. [...]

Silliness on a Friday Night: Meet Computer H14!

In 1963, Jim Henson made this film about “Computer H14″ for an AT&T seminar on the tension between humans and machines.

The character was Henson’s response to a brief by Ted Mills (a principal at InPro, which organised the seminar) who laid out the basic idea that Computer H14 “is sure that All Men Basically [...]