Journal Journal: The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow
The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow: An Instant Message with Excitable Music is a play written by Rolin Jones that features an agoraphobic, obsessive-compulsive (perhaps also mildly autistic) girl genius who decides to seek out her birth mother in China by creating a robot to go on the journey for her. She's also a secret subcontractor for the Department of Defense and relies on the help of a horny Mormon
Journal Journal: Gifts for geeky moms
Your mom codes in assembly? Awesome! So what do you get her for Mother's Day? Check out these ideas over at the geek boutique Fractalspin, such as an Estrogen Necklace, Circuit Board Luggage Tags, and a Diskette Purse.
Journal Journal: Voting with Sequoia
I wrote about my experience using one of the Sequoia electronic voting machines here in Chicago on my blog.
Comment what about instant runoff? (Score 0, Redundant) 1048
Instead of choosing between the "lesser of two evils," what about just doing every election as instant runoff? You rank multiple candidates in order of preference, and the candidates that get the least votes are elimated. Repeat until one remains.
Comment Heh (Score 1) 1004
I'm so used to seeing fake obits on slashdot I have trouble taking this seriously. Crikey indeed.
Journal Journal: slashdot users are idiots 3
so this comment got modded down. I guess I made the mistake of assuming everyone on slashdot had a highschool education.
Comment Railsday (Score 1) 243
Yubnub was a railsday entry. Pretty neat what can be done in mostly one day.
It will be interesting how rails handles under the slashdot load.
It will be interesting how rails handles under the slashdot load.
Journal Journal: NOTICE 6
Slashdot is the suck