OK, maybe not the most interesting use of the technology, but cool anyway, huh?

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The fusion core of Mark Suppes Homemade Fusion Reactor

Need a weekend project around the house? Mark Suppes, web developer by day, has built his own nuclear fusion reactor in a Brooklyn workspace. It kind of makes that project car you’ve got rusting in the garage seem lame by comparison. (read more)

Here’s some code that lets you add swing to any song. It works pretty well on some songs; other songs it just sounds sort of skippy. Any fingers out there tech/music savvy enough to make us some remixes?

The Swinger.

Sweet Child O’ Mine (Swing Version) by plamere

Hey look!!!  It’s Before-After Britney!!!  Huzzah!!!!!

“Because the internet needs prophylactics for memetically transmitted diseases.”

The concept behind the StupidFilter Project originated during a conversation between Gabriel Ortiz and Paul Starr. StupidFilter was conceived out of necessity. Too long have we suffered in silence under the tyranny of idiocy. In the beginning, the internet was a place where one could communicate intelligently with similarly erudite people. Then, Eternal September hit and we were lost in the noise. The advent of user-driven web content has compounded the matter yet further, straining our tolerance to the breaking point.

It’s time to fight back.

The solution we’re creating is simple: an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English. This will be accomplished with weighted Bayesian or similar analysis and some rules-based processing, similar to spam detection engines. The primary challenge inherent in our task is that stupidity is not a binary distinction, but rather a matter of degree. To this end, we’re collecting a ranked corpus of stupid text, gleaned from user comments on public websites and ranked on a five-point scale.

http://stupidfilter.org/main/

Also see: http://stupidfilter.org/random.php

Prof Chandra Wickramasinghe, of Cardiff University, said new research “overwhelmingly” supported the view that human life started from outside our Earth.

Maybe you didn’t know this yet but the fingers of Fist of Blog are all chipping in to buy a new sex robot (and matching brown paper bag to cover her face). She/it will be available on a time share basis so get on the list now!

Crappy looking sex robot on CNN.