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Robot apocalypticists often presume that artificially intelligent beings will be all-too-eager to cooperate to destroy humanity. Which is...

The Rundown Last night's Olympia Awesome Film Festival , the first ever, showcased the talents of twenty filmmakers from all over the U...

Sartre meets Star Wars. [via Maggie Koerth-Baker ]

This weekend, I was fortunate to hear--experience--the mastery of a twenty-year veteran of the didgeridoo, Ondrej Smeykal, at the Matrix ...

Apropos of nothing: Jacob Tucker.

Via the inimitable Dave Weigel , parliamentary procedure gets exciting in Wisconsin. A few notes: 1. Some Americans are going to consi...

Video of a street in Capitol Hill , where determined drivers vastly overestimate their skills on black ice. Steering out of a skid is not...

The best part of the entire book of Proverbs, in this debate coach's opinion, comes in the 26th chapter. 4 Do not answer a fool accor...

Have you ever wanted to see a geoduck in action? Of course you have.

Baby sloths!

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings . Enjoy.

"It's not that original, but it's only a buck." I haven't decided whether Burger King's winking-but-honest approac...

To the annals of horrific government-sponsored "rapping," we can add the Census Rap : Warning: this blog is not responsible for ea...

Never was so much Rube Goldberg given to so many by so few. [via Scott Tobias. ]

In case you doubted the inherent and insatiable sociality of the human species, or, at least, will cheer for anything: Improv Everywhere...

I'm not sure I'm really sold on the idea that augmenting one's own reality makes one less of a machine. And I'm not sure t...

1. Kevin Kelley of Pulaski Academy High explains his team's no-kick approach to football . The short story: it's all about the numb...

Via Cory Doctorow , a clever little video highlighting the cell phone failures that angst up the modern thriller. (Warning: salty language...

Majestic stuff. [via Slate's Twitter feed ]

Add one more faculty to the crow repertoire: the ability to recognize and remember human faces. As the video shows, though, the face is al...