Redshift

2008-02-20

Maybe they can free us of religion

Machines 'to match man by 2029'

Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.

Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people's brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil.

The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health.

"It's really part of our civilisation," Mr Kurzweil explained.

"But that's not going to be an alien invasion of intelligent machines to displace us."

Machines were already doing hundreds of things humans used to do, at human levels of intelligence or better, in many different areas, he said.

Obligatory commentary (snicker) :

Maybe if they make us smarter, they can cure the human race of the delusion that is religion. And we can advance as a species.

2008-02-18

That was quick

thatwasquick, originally uploaded by Chris1051.

After noting the Sharpie marks, they quickly replaced the ad.

2008-02-17

Master of Puppets - Seattle 1989

I was living in Tacoma at the time. And also a hard core Metallica fan (still am) although it doesn't reflect in my last.fm

Great graphic

I came across this in SU and its great. I cant republish it here cause - well I can't figure out how to make a side by side list.

Here is the page

2008-02-16

2008-02-15

SharpieArt

SharpieArt, originally uploaded by Chris1051.

I laughed my ass off.

Energy Warning

107, originally uploaded by Chris1051.

2006 was the sixth hottest year since 1850.
The five hottest years in the last 150 years are in descending order: 2005, 1998, 2002, 2003, and 2004.

2008-02-14

Hauling ASS

Hauling ASS, originally uploaded by Chris1051.

I will take a better quality photo for the non-believers

The only way this could have happened is

a) a glitch
b) I took the GPS with me on a plane ride
c) I was tear-assing down the highway in a Bugatti Veyron

You decide what happened :)