--1-- As a true blue Democrat, the events of Tuesday night were a little hard for me to take, so I'm going to need the blogging equivalent of chocolate (good for Dementors and defeats) to be able to go on. Here goes: From a photo caption from a story about Merle Haggard (via Jeff Weintraub): The documentary was filmed over three years. Among those interviewed were his two ex-wives, Kris Kristofferson and Robert Duvall. --2-- Oh man, even amusing grammar errors that … [Read more...]
7 Quick Takes (10/29/10)
October 29, 2010 By 1 Comment
--1-- Halloween's coming up, so let's start with something spooky. The video below is of a Japanese robot that was designed to emulate human facial expressions and is startlingly good at it. (h/t Gizmodo) --2-- For me, the fright comes from the fact that I'm pretty sure I would have a difficult time telling the robot in the video apart from an organic human in many contexts. The movements in the video were a little herky-jerky, but it was also clear that … [Read more...]
7 Quick Takes (10/21/10)
October 22, 2010 By 4 Comments
--1-- I've been terribly deficient w/r/t blogging this week, so I pledge to make it up by posting this weekend (especially the promised response to Peter Somerville's criticism of my post on the (im)morality of drone strikes). For today, I shall fill out the remainder of my seven takes with paired posts. --2-- Disappointing Democrats (Part 1) Like pretty much everyone in the atheist blogosphere, I'm extremely upset by the new attack ad that Democrat Jack Conway is running against Rand … [Read more...]
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