Sagan Sunday

12.26.2010 | by | Comment

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Pandas helping Pandas

12.16.2010 | by | Comment

Chinese researcher’s in Sichuan province have been wearing panda suits to introduce captive born pandas into the wild. That’s great for the pandas, I just wish I could have been there when this idea was pitched.

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The American Man

12.11.2010 | by | Comment

The good fellows of Freemans Sporting Club released their Fall/Winter lookbook and we’re positively tickled by it. Photographer Tim Barber mirthfully captures the clichés of our time. Upon browsing the lookbook you will discover many of the usual personae including: the Wooly Woodsman, the Williamsburg Dad, the Whiny Vegan, and of course, the Wisest Wizard (pictured above).

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Robots or No Bots

12.08.2010 | by | Comment

This comic courtesy of Buttersafe.com

This post actually has dual significance.

The first is obvious: robots. There’s a lot of debate going on right now about the future of robotics and whether or not artificial intelligence is a good or bad thing, and I as a robot nerd found this just delightful. Don’t get me wrong, I love robots, but I’ve also seen all of the Terminators and Christian Bale could be long dead by the time the robots take over and in that case we’re pretty shit out of luck. So stick this in your pipe Ray Kurzweil.

The second is, remember comics?

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SAMO

12.06.2010 | by | Comment

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While you were shopping…

12.04.2010 | by | Comment

I started these reflections on Thanksgiving as I was anticipating my retail job at Fashion Valley Mall and really really not wanting to have anything to do with Black Friday. Well, turns out, Friday morning I quit my job (don’t worry it was one of three) and then Friday afternoon I went to Buy Nothing Day in Kensington Park. Friday night I felt so inspired by life and the people that I had met that I combined previous reflections with my new ideas and came up with this:

Thanksgiving is the holiday when most Americans come together and reflect on those things in life that we feel we have been distracted from or that we miss in the hubbub of our busy lives. However, our appreciation or our memories are short lived, because the very next day, Black Friday, we throw wads of cash and brightly wrapped cellophane in the face of our gratitude and demand more possessions at lower cost and greater speed. It is a mockery of our day of thanks, when we focus on family, friends, communal dining, and appreciating both the good things in life, as well as its hardships. Buy Nothing Day promotes the continued reflection of where our thoughts and values lie. Instead of vehemently throwing ourselves back into a culture of materialism and monetary value, here in San Diego, we celebrated much like the first celebrants of Thanksgiving, by taking what we had in abundance, or just plain owned to exchange and share with those around us. Our exchange was blatantly different from an exchange of paper or plastic for a product. Black Friday is about monetary value, personal gain, and self-fulfillment. The Buy Nothing Day event in Kensington Park was about community building through sharing, exchanging, and the rejection of money as a determination of value.

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