Monday, March 12, 2012

How Engineering the Human Body Could Combat Climate Change


Link to article
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How does S. Matthew Liao still have a job? If your life's work sounds like an article from The Onion, maybe you are doing it wrong.

Quote from the article:
It's been suggested that, given the seriousness of climate change, we ought to adopt something like China's one child policy. There was a group of doctors in Britain who recently advocated a two-child maximum. But at the end of the day those are crude prescriptions---what we really care about is some kind of fixed allocation of greenhouse gas emissions per family. If that's the case, given certain fixed allocations of greenhouse gas emissions, human engineering could give families the choice between two medium sized children, or three small sized children. From our perspective that would be more liberty enhancing than a policy that says "you can only have one or two children." A family might want a really good basketball player, and so they could use human engineering to have one really large child.

I'll take one small child and one big gulp. Guh.

Friday, March 9, 2012

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Abbreviation System on Github

https://github.com/greglange/abbrv

I just created a github repository for my abbreviation system.

It's a little raw right now.

I'll be working to improve it over time.

Enjoy!

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

If your article has this sentence in it, it is fail.

"Instead, Hume said, every cause is just a slippery story, a catchy conjecture, a 'lively conception produced by habit'."

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Friday, January 27, 2012

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Star Wars Uncut: Director's Cut



That's pretty cool but I have a series of jokes based on it.
  1. Isn't that the sort of thing SOPA was supposed to stop?
  2. That's the longest episode of "Robot Chicken" that I've ever seen.
  3. Where was Jar Jar Binks?
  4. Was this a remake of some movie?
  5. Has fark.com made any other movies?

Friday, January 13, 2012

Ron Paul Quote

Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.

There are some real problems with Ron Paul. However, sometimes what he says is exactly right.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Lifts

Image from ArtStudio for iPad

A Skyrim Detective

Image from ArtStudio for iPad

Context Comic

Image from ArtStudio for iPad

"Fake" English Rock Song



This is pretty cool. It's supposed to give English speakers an idea of what English sounds like to people who don't speak English.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

UTSA Football is the Worst

According to the ratings on the following link, UTSA will start next season as the worst FBS team:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/fbt11.htm

According the sorting of the ratings by conference on the following link, UTSA's conference (the WAC) will start next season as the worst FBS conference:

http://ncaabbs.com/showthread.php?tid=547586

I guess that means that UTSA is in the right conference. And, I guess that means there is no where to go but up?

Monday, January 9, 2012