Apparently, the BBC thawed and hired a DEA official from the 1950s (who had been cryogenically frozen to help fight “drug hysteria” in the future) in order to write this kind of thing about weed:
“We strongly urge the government to heed the growing evidence and take urgent action to warn young people that [...]

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Christ, I spent 10 hours today writing about T.S. Eliot . . .

I could have been huffing paint . . .
Or scrambling Dodo eggs . . .
Or modeling a mouse brain on a supercomputer . . .
But I was scribbling gibberish about Ole Possum . . .
I don’t know how [...]

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Hate him or love him, here’s one of Baudrillard’s more interesting books:

(and here is a link to a bigger version if this one is too tiny for you).

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US researchers have simulated half a virtual mouse brain on a supercomputer.
The team, from the IBM Almaden Research Lab and the University of Nevada, ran the simulation on a BlueGene L supercomputer that had 4,096 processors, each one of which used 256MB of memory. Using this machine the researchers created half a virtual mouse [...]

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It may be hip to dislike this, but hip I’ve never been.

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I thought this would make at least one of you laugh.
(via BoingBoing)

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Two brilliant bastards separated only by an “udri.”

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