justin0469

There's a million pics of this stuff out there but this is crazy

Nathan Sawaya is so much obsessed with Lego that he left his lawyer job in NY to become a master lego builder. Sawaya now has a studio in the big Apple with over 1.5 million Lego bricks which he uses to create jaw dropping structure like these. (More images after the jump)

http://www.tweenbots.com/

Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.

Just kinda interesting.... Apparently people will help a robot but not a homeless guy

http://thetoiletpaper.com/blog/2009/the-average-mans-tax-dollars/

no, the show in the ladies room.... I never thought pants could do that...

haha you are just LOOKIN to peak someone's interest

I'm glad I went, met alot of cool people. Have some good stories...about cheese wheels and oddly long middle fingers...

dude

hang ten

That sucks man. If you had a security clearance and wanted to work in Columbus, I might be able to help...

Just thought it was interesting. I didn't know that it was already known that schizophrenics are immune to some other visual illusions.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16911-schizophrenics-see-through-hollowmask-illusion.html

Video: See the hollow-mask illusion

Telling the front from the back of a mask can be more difficult than it seems. Thanks to an effect called the hollow-mask illusion, the brain can have trouble deciding if the image is convex or concave.

But, it seems, not everyone struggles to correctly determine the mask's orientation. New research shows that people with schizophrenia are immune to the effect – a finding that means the illusion could provide a diagnostic test for the condition.

In the study, volunteers were monitored in an fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanner as they looked at photos. Some of these were normal pictures of faces, but others had been inverted as in the hollow-mask illusion. All the participants with schizophrenia could distinguish between the two types of photos, whereas control volunteers without the condition were fooled 99 per cent of the time.

People with schizophrenia, which affects about 1 per cent of the population, are already known to be immune to certain visual illusions. Immunity to the hollow-mask illusion, says Danai Dima, of Hannover School of Medicine in Germany, suggests that the "bottom-up" process of collecting incoming visual information from the eyes, and the "top-down" process of interpreting this information is different in people with schizophrenia.

"The term 'schizophrenia' was coined almost a century ago to mean the splitting of different mental domains, but the idea has now shifted more towards connectivity between brain areas," says Dima.

The prevailing theory is that perception comprises three main components: sensory input (bottom-up); the internal production of concepts (top-down); and a control component, which covers interaction between the two first components. "Our study provides further evidence of 'dysconnectivity' between these components in the brains of people with schizophrenia."

Only like 5% of the infected PCs are in North America, 45% of them are in Asia...

he annoys me

and going "line by line" through the budget, removing the bullsh*t...

FAIL!

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The promise of transparency and openness...

sofa king we tar did

just kidding....before it gets to

It amazes me how the Obama supporters, the biggest bashers of Bush and his administration, are okay with this. Are you all brainwashed? WTF? You're basically saying it's okay to agree with Bush and his policies when it benefits you, IE: well we don't want sued so we'll just stick to the original plan, but we don't really agree with it, but we don't want sued. Again, hypocrisy. You can't say one thing then do another. That's not change. That's typical government destroying our country.

quoted for truth...

sofa king we tar did

wa wa wa wa wa - yes maam

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Ya, I didn't read all of it but where in the 36 pages does it give that impression?

Making a blanket claim like

The Obama Administration goes two steps further than Bush did, and claims that the US PATRIOT Act also renders the U.S. immune from suit under the two remaining key federal surveillance laws: the Wiretap Act and the Stored Communications Act. Essentially, the Obama Adminstration has claimed that the government cannot be held accountable for illegal surveillance under any federal statutes.

sounds more like a policy than legal defense. That's not specific to the suit brought against them and is broad enough to provide an escape from any similar future events. Claiming immunity from laws gives you much more than legal defense for 1 suit.

errr not quite there's a difference between a policy decision and legal defense. Obama's policy hasn't changed at all, but it's still the AGs job to defend against suits the way any other lawyer would.

The point is that they are using the same (or worse) argument they were complaining the Bush administration was. Regardless of the outcome, they are being very hypocritical. That's what makes people go All these promises that aren't worth anything...

It's been amazing to hear more and more from the Obama administration that is "worse than the Bush administration". Everyone believed his promises of lowering the national deficit and pulling the troops out right away and now homeland security.

Not quite the "savior" everyone was expecting

i might be able to be there and if i am, ill bring salad or muffins or meat snack tray thing. hows that for commitment?

Couple more computer nerd ones....