Living the Liminal

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What’s sad is that, but for human greed and short-sightedness, this could have been the path for the automotive industry beginning over a century ago.
Oh, but you can’t make nearly the money on compressed air as you can on selling fuel, be it gasoline or biofuels or hydrogen. So yeah, all those corporations and [...]

We can take pictures like this:

Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars 03.03.08
[From NASA - Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars]

That’s a lot of gas:
If traffic-timing systems were updated using conventional methods, the US could cut fuel consumption by up to 10 percent – about 17 billion gallons a year, the National Transportation Operations Coalition found in its 2007 traffic-signal report card. (Emissions also would be by cut more by than 20 percent.) If Park’s [...]

Oh the sweet, sweet irony!

A small software company has accused major label Sony/BMG of software piracy, in a reversal of the normal orientation of piracy cases between major labels and the rest of the world.
[From Sony/BMG Under Investigation for Software Piracy | Listening Post from Wired.com]

This is one of the more gorgeous examples of steampunk mods I’ve come across. I adore my Macbook Pro, but stuff like this is beautiful on a whole other level. If I were to go into graduate school, analytic, pretentious intellectual mode, I would write about how steampunk taps into people’s desire to have a [...]

Those of you who know me have heard me talk about the spaceport that is being built in NM. I posted previously about how the spaceport fit in with my long-standing love of space imagery and exploration. While Jo Cose believes that the project is doomed before it’s truly begun, I have this exciting faith [...]

It’s been a long time since I’ve invested any but the most minimal amount of money in a printer. And, as a result, I have spent the past several years dealing with my printers instead of simply using them. The other night, I got fed up with the HP PSC 1510 All-In-One that I had [...]

Smell that french fry aroma . . .     Biodiesel Takes to the Sky
Because Piety does NOT equal Morality . . .    Preacher Refusing to Answer Questions in Senate Investigation
and
    Mitt’s Pious Bullshit
Because Wil Wheaton makes fun of Wesley Crusher–and does it with genuine love and talent . . .    “Wheee! I’m in Starfleet!”
I’m going [...]

I don’t know about you, my fellow Mac users, but I am becoming increasingly wary of installing certain Apple updates. Primarily because of two updates. The first problem lies in the fairly major update of 10.4.9 to 10.4.10. This has caused any number of external audio devices to stop working, in particular my Behringer FCA202 [...]

I mean, we all know where this is heading:
Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial life form on Earth.
Of course, that’s not really the problem, [...]