Delicious LiveJournal Links for 1-18-2009

[andrewducker]

• The Stark, Existential Horror of Tarot #53
  A review of what is possibly the worst comic ever created.
  (tags: funny review comic)
• Anand Agarawala demos his BumpTop desktop
  And makes it _really_ obvious that it's about 20% as usable as either the Windows or Mac interfaces...
  (tags: technology video gui ui interface)
• Explaining to Eliza that her creator is dead
  Eliza being one of the earliest examples of "conversational" software.
  (tags: psychology technology intelligence emotion AI obituary eliza)
• The survival of US Airways flight 1549 is not a miracle - it's someone's _job_
  Sully Sullenberger didn't leave it up to God whether his passengers were going to live or die. He spent a large percentage of his professional life taking time out to practice in simulation how to land a commercial jetliner without engines. When he decided that wasn't enough, he then went on to make a professional study, on his own time, of commercial aviation safety, so much so that telling other people what he learned from studying it turned into a second job for him. And (more goosebumps again) he decided, years ago?, that that wasn't enough margin for safety for him, so he went on to learn to become a certified glider pilot. Nor should you call it a "miracle" that US Airways flight 1549 had someone like Sully Sullenberger at the helm, because that's what commercial aviation is like.
  (tags: religion work jobs flight airplanes)
• Mah Fellah Amercans
  The truth about George Bush
  (tags: funny usa politics comic)
• 22-Year-Old Sells Virginity Online -- and Feds Can't Do a Thing to Stop Her
  I am _very_ amused.
  (tags: usa sex prostitution)
• Ever Wondered What Ant's Nest looks like?
  Astounding view of an African nest - the thing's fucking _huge_.
  (tags: video nature insects ants)

Comments

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

That ants' nest is amazing. I mean, wow...

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

The Stark, Existential Horror of Tarot #53

I don't know whether to thank you or blame you....

[kurosau.livejournal.com]

There's a reason they called everyone that pitched into save those people heroes. It's because they were.

But given how bad things could've gone independently of what we could do to control it? I'm finding Brad's article a poor game of irrationally emotional semantics.