Speak Softly (Or, Not At All)

Seeded on Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:11 PM EST (Forbes)

NASA is working on a way to make incessant cell phone chatterers minorly less annoying by developing a device to track miniscule muscle movements and impulses in the larynx and tongue which exist, even when one isn't speaking audibly

science

'Roe v. Wade For Men'

Seeded on Sun Mar 12, 2006 5:39 PM EST (CBS News)

The concept of a man's right to choose seems like a bit of a distraction from the real issue that's coming up now (i.e. the challenge of Roe by South Dakota), but it's a compelling issue nonetheless.

abortion, politics, us-news

Concept: Massive Multiplayer Medicine

Seeded on Thu Mar 2, 2006 6:21 PM EST (raphkoster.com)

The place of healing characters in MMORPGs has, for too long, seemed like an afterthought put in to make the gameplay of combative characters more enjoyable. But why not make healing a game in and of itself?

entertainment, games, internet, video-games, mmorpg

Guild Unease

Thu Mar 2, 2006 4:22 PM EST

Perhaps it's just a byproduct of the digital world's need to be constantly entertained, but it seems that the mantra of the Web 2.0 era has become "interaction, whenever possible, whether needed or not." Even the most erudite among us have been blinded by this phase, and have pr

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