So, the Star Bulletin is buying out the Advertiser and if approved would leave Honolulu with just 1 daily newspaper.
About 10 years ago, I had strong feelings against it when the Advertiser was looking to buy out the Bulletin. But now - feh.
I believe we still need good journalism and a strong Fourth Estate, but has print medias time past? We don't really telegraph anymore, but I don't think the interwebs is yet up to that task.
Does this concern you? Monopolization of a dead market? Is there already enough democratization and diversity of news sources? Does this matter?
Does this affect Odori?
Discuss.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
All those Moments will be Lost...
Blade Runner - Tears in Rain (in LEGO) from Zach Macias on Vimeo.
Seen on various blongs. Lifted from the Vimeo site. Rutger FTW.
Liveblogging the Tsunami, Sort of
Fugu got a call from his dad last night, shortly following the earthquake in Chile, about some buoys between Hawaii and the quake. Tsunami, he said. Aaaaaaa! He didn't say that, really. He's a bad-ass geologist; a scientist; and not prone to panicking. At least outwardly.
We were playing Starcraft, getting our butts kicked by six Zerg armies.
Next morning, the civil defense sirens woke us the hell up. Two people I follow on the Twitter, @trulyjoannies and @thedailydish (both blongers) had been obsessively tweeting info all night, about the tsunami, civil defense responses, how to prepare, etc. Very helpful.
Then I started watching the Twitter #hitsunami tag, which started off slow and then went kind of worldwide (now, it's kind of riddled with spam and prayers). Also, TV (pictured, above). I checked our supplies, which included nicotine gum for bartering and and zip ties to restrain captives from enemy tribes. Power Bars. Filled our bathtub with water.
I can see this from my window:
Those are all boats out in the ocean. They aren't usually there. The boats are out there so they don't get smashed.
Rick Sanchez on CNN was being an amazing douchepocket, trying to get a scientist to admit that there was an extinction-level tsunami hurtling toward everyone and that we should all be fucking screaming.
The water is starting to recede from Hilo Harbor (see first image), on the island of Hawaii. Okay, and now it's going back out. And coming back in. You know, I don't really know what Hilo Harbor is like, usually. Maybe it does this all the time.
I might post any updates in the comments. Please feel free to do the same, even if you don't live in Hawaii, and want to maybe guess at what's happening.
Oh, there are experts on television saying that this isn't over yet. The water in many harbors across the state continue to drain quickly and flow back in quickly.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
A passing analogy between artificial flight and artificial intelligence
I thought this was pretty funny. There's those who say we could never create an artificial intelligence because even if we designed something that passes the ultimate Turing Test, how will we know it's not just a hollow shell that only mimics cognition? As an analogy, however, the same logic could be used by a bunch of birds talking about artificial flight:"This is flight in the natural world, the product of millions of years of evolution, and not a phenomenon easily replicated. Current A.F. is limited to unpowered gliding; a technical marvel, but nowhere near the sophistication of a bird. Gliding simplifies our lives, and no bird (including myself) would discourage advancing this field, but it is a far cry from synthesizing the millions of cells within the wing alone to achieve Strong A.F. Strong A.F., as it is defined by researchers, is any artificial flier that is capable of passing the Tern Test (developed by A.F. pioneer Alan Tern), which involves convincing an average bird that the artificial flier is in fact a flying bird"
via boingboing
Crawler Town by DeGobbi
Crawler Town
Originally uploaded by DeGobbi
It's not Armada from China Mieville's The Scar, but it might as well be. A phenomenal addition to our busy busy plastic world.
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