Future is Now

"The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet." - William Gibson

Voting and Switchblades

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"You want to know about voting. I'm here to tell you about voting." - Spider Jerusalem

Making the Camera Lie

Boing Boing: Fake beauty, video about transhuman tricks used on models

Goalkeeping's Not So Greatest Hits

Prompted by the gaffe in England's recent game against Croatia, The Offside links us to Great Goalkeeper Blunders.

I've had my share of goalkeeper related misadventures, though not with Borat looking on. I've had the goalkeeper kick the ball off my shinguard into my own goal. I've also had a backpass to the keeper picked off in an amateur adult league game. Either the pass or the keeper was too slow- probably both.

:edit: added link to Robinson's blunder

Alphabet Soup

Spectrum's Guide to Recent Electronics: Industry Acronyms and Abbreviations (SGTREIAA)

Even electrical engineers can't keep them straight, much less the poor sap figuring out LCoS or DMD (TI calls it DLP) for his or her new rear projection TV.