Thu
Jul
24
Mini machines draw less than half the juice of a big ol desktop
WhatCHOO gon’ do when the lights go out? queue up at the solar web cafe, and pay and pay and pay? Or get feisty and hook one of these lil darlings up to your faraday bike generator? They’ve got one here that runs on FIVE WATTS, or about ten vinegar and potato batteries’ worth.
Flowers By Ira DOESN'T have Tesla's Death Ray specs, plus they're not spying on you
The FBI claims they don’t have files on “average Americans,” saying: “We won’t have a ‘file’ on you unless you’re a spy or terrorist or criminal or are suspected of being one,” which is true. It’s actually the NSA that keeps all the files about how you browsed an Enver Hoxha book at Red Emma’s and how you think McDonald’s hamburgers taste like masking tape. Plus I don’t believe for a second they would “lose” the plans for Tesla’s death ray. They should re-title this article “Yeah, that’s the ticket.”
Thu
Jun
19
"Unthinkable futures" actually fairly probable
Some of these “unthinkable futures” aren’t all that improbable… Dartmouth has a campus in Qatar, Japanese women ARE rebelling (“retired husband syndrome,” and the falling birth rate) Black Rock City is a metropolis of 40 thousand that has banned all advertising and corporate logos. . . Some people in Africa think the white man invented AIDS to empty out the continent for precisely the reason given here: vast farms.