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Yes, this is a bit snide, but I like the point of it: I admit feeling a bit of apprehension about “Human-Achievement Hour”; I don’t like waste, and don’t see anything wrong with living “cleaner” or being “green” (so long as it ultimately serves human goals, and living that way is not the result of coercion.) But [...] I admit I didn’t know this was a problem: Incentives are everything. I promised myself I wouldn’t post too many videos in a row, but I couldn’t resist in this case: People don’t appreciate the art of a trailer. If you want to build something this weekend that’s not terribly hard but enormously fun, I suggest you take a page from MAKE magazine and build an Atlatl. I built one a couple weekends ago, and why I would love to ramble on about how I did it, I couldn’t explain it better then the wonderful [...] If anybody wants to read Ray Kurzwiel’s take on Avatar, just follow this link: Cameron’s conception of technology a hundred years from now was incredibly unimaginative, even by Hollywood standards. For example, the munitions that were supposed to blow up the tree of life looked like they were used in World War II [...] This is the best thing I’ve ever seen: I love Rube Goldberg machines, almost as much as I love airships and robots. In a proper society, they would all receive the attention they deserve. |
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