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Bill O'Reilly, Geraldo Rivera Screaming Match
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/launchPage.html?040607/040507_...
A "debate" over the relevance of illegal immigration in a story about a drunk driving fatality.
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Bush address to Radio and Television Correspondents' Dinner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNrsTDPmPhQ
He makes joke for 6 of the 7 minutes. They're pretty funny.
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Tags: president, BUSH, politics, humor, Cheney
Game for the Brain
http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/commentary/games/2...
Next month, Nintendo is releasing Brain Age, a DS game based on the research of the Japanese neuroscientist Ryuta Kawashima.
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Tags: brain, video game, nintendo, Neuroscience
Bullet in the Brain, by Tobias Wolff
http://ofsink.com/bullet.pdf
Great short story. Funny, startling, then poignant.
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Simulation, Consciousness, Existence
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.artic...
"Like organisms evolved in gentle tide pools, who migrate to freezing oceans or steaming jungles by developing metabolisms, mechanisms, and behaviors workable in those harsher and vaster environments, our descendants, able to change their representations at will, may develop means to venture far from the comfortable realms we consider reality into arbitrarily strange worlds." By 'representation' Moravec means 'a unique way to interpret sensory phenomenon'. Just read the article.
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Tags: simulation, consciousness, quantum physics, future
3D morphable model face animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nice6NYb_WA
Facial modeling software that can extract a 3D model of a face from a 2D image. The appearance, facial expression, and even gender of 3D model can be manipulated. At the end you get to see Mona Lisa in 3D.
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Tags: facial modeling, linear algebra, mona lisa
The Future of Psychiatry: Dualism Reemergent
http://www.futurepsychiatry.com/rev_thesis/Rev%20Chapter%201...
Jock Mclaren examines David Chalmers' dualist approach to understanding consciousness. He's very supportive of the theory but offers a few enhancements.
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Tags: philosophy, psychiatry, dualism, chalmers, consciousness
Bugging Out on Homeland Security - Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technology/243434a70e131110vgnv...
How can a cockroach assist with the Global War on Terrorism?
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Scribd
http://www.scribd.com/
A YouTube for documents. Will this be a success and, if so, could it be a vehicle for good writing?
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Captain America dies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6431619.stm
I remember when he punched Hitler...
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