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Press Conference (1 hr):



This is horrifying. In the conference they mention that businesses and the government are already building with rising sea levels in mind, i.e. less coastal development, higher walls.

It's a Westie puppy:

Martin Yan was in Millbrae last week, and man can he sell books. All he did throughout his entire cooking demonstration was talk about how great his knife was, which should be irritating, but he's such a fucking brilliant guy, that he convinced everyone that he was just kidding, and they bought it anyway. He also deboned a chicken in 18 seconds:

I went to the Academy of Sciences with my mom and Stephanie for my mom's birthday, which is always pretty cool, expect for the poisonous spiders they keep there. Don't they know that all black widows want to do is bite you?? Anyway, saw lots of cool fish.

So Stephanie all but convinced me last night that I will live to see the apocalypse. It's not like it was never in the back of my mind. In fact, upon getting my first job, I asked someone if it was more beneficial for me to learn programming or small game hunting. It's just so fucking depressing, and it makes me really angry. I also realized that, despite my general, vague, and increasingly abstract belief in social justice, environmental sustainability, etc, I really do like the "American way of life." I want the world at my fingertips, and it's scary to think of that disappearing. I know this sounds like the unimportant, self-indulgent whining of a rich, privileged person (which it is), so you don't really have to care. I understand that desperately hanging on to luxury devalues real suffering, and in this case leads to the destruction of humanity, but...I like all the things that come with mass consumption of fossil fuels, and I can't help it. I guess, like a million times before, I can come to a conclusion about myself or the world and ignore it, or I can take issue with it and work toward solving the problem. Yes! ok. Did I just tell myself to save the world?

So it's the 20-year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, and China's government is celebrating by showing how much things have changed. Government officials (cops?) in civilian clothing are wandering around the square this week, blocking news cameras with umbrellas like nothing's wrong. At least there aren't any tanks this time around.





Anyone else notice that the BBC volume slider goes to 11?

Went to the Maker faire the other day, had a lot of cool things, got dehydrated, blah blah, here's some pictures of contraptions, and a video of what fear looks like.

Winged raccoon

Just some metal

Tesla Coils cook some god damn hot dogs:

That little car at the end is moving on wireless electricity. How the fuck is this possible?

Proof that advertisers use metrics and not common sense: