If you haven't heard the Skeptoid episode on the topic of cell phones and cancer its worth a listen.
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4117

This way the practitioners of astrology could finally offer up proof that the planets have an influence on our lives. Then they could have gotten not just the Netflix money but the JREF money too.

Or maybe they were just not thinking? Naa.

This is going to sound like I have way too much time on my hands. Which was true till I got into even more twisted uses of my time.
I can testify that there is a market for low res mono-chromatic pr0n. My website is dedicated to it. While ASCII art pr0n doesn't pay that much it has opened the door to paying gigs that have netted me thousands of dollars in commissions. Rule 34 for fun and profit.

This is great. We now have a large pool of people who qualify to win the JREF million dollar prise. If just one of them can prove in a double blind test then they can win the money and get out of Iraq. Science be praised.

Did anyone else think it odd that this had nothing to do with Dune? This wasn't the Holtzman Effect I was looking for.

I don't see it that way. If you are a shopping minded person [conspicuous consumer] and walking through the mall you can hold your phone up and get info loaded on all off the sales in your path.

Any marketing person knows it doesn't have to be better than signs in the window. It just has to offer an edge over the signs in the window next to yours or reinforce the sign in your window.

Is anyone else seeing this as a way for shopers to find out were the sales are happening? Either on the street or even in a store itself. This could be the replacement for the vanishing newspaper that stores need for their ads.

Might also be really handy for finding houses of ill repute when traveling to other countries. :)

Were the zombies filled with rage?

One of the problems with the internet is that it gives people a chance to self select themselves into a tiny little corner of interstes that creates an echo chamber. I don't want recomendations from people I know to be prone to confermation bias. I want recomendations from a large body of evidance showing both pro's and con's. Nothing against Facebook, its just their users I have an issue with.

And in space the weight of the batteries isn't 460 pounds either.

I strongly recomend Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. It does a really good idea of exploring why and how science works and has changed the world, for good and bad, through time. As an added bonus you get a full set of debunking tools to learn how to spot junk pretending to be science.

I played with it a bit but didn't really know if I could do anything with it. The first thing I really did was find "mc". I typed it in and looked at the screen. It looked like X-Tree. A little tear formed in my eye. All the sudden I knew that everything was going to be OK. From here I could do anything I needed. I grew out of it in about a week but it that flash back to something known was all I needed to take command.

I look like the poster child for heavy metal and testosterone injections. In order to help soften up my image with women I put cute little dino and bug stickers on my netbook. Got them at a crafts store for $2 a book while I was picking up knitting supplies. I look manly, my netbook doesn't need to.

I am often told by women that their first impression of me is that I am tall dark and intimidating. Anything can do to give them an excuse to think otherwise is fine by me.

My scooter gets 105 MPG and I have no need for insurance, tags or lisance.
If something goes wrong I can fix it myself so repairs are cheep too.

The military also invested millions in remote viewing.