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wonder what the crash testing looks like - maybe this is the vehical that crashed in Roswell, NM - got stuck in a woem hole and time traveled back to 1947

Love the LED turn signals

Stooges guitarist found dead - CNN.com

Ron Asheton, the guitarist for Iggy and The Stooges, was found dead this morning in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Iggy and The Stooges helped launch the early 70's punk scene at CBGBs and played with many other great bands of that era like the Ramones, Blondie, The Sex Pistols and so many more. I'm suprised any of them lived to be 60 years old with the lifestyle they practiced which is excellently documented in "Please Kill Me" - The uncensored Oral History of Punk Rock.

He had some amazing talent and awesome riffs, the Raw Power record is an excellent example. RIP




Stooges guitarist found dead - CNN.com

Superbowl

http://xkcd.com/60/

Rapid Prototyping

I found an interesting blog entry about quantum theory (and creationism?) and found a slight flaw in the presentation, which I pointed out with the information below:

“Programmers realized that the universe would take up an extreme amount of memory. In fact, it would use up everything in the superuniverse that it was created in to store that amount of data.”

Actually, in regards to your statement about needing an infinite amount of storage space to store the paths and information regarding every particle/wave in the universe, there are some more logical explainations.

The theory that there should exists a predetermined course for every particle can actually be ruled out by realization itself that it would take all the particles in the universe to hold that amount of information.

Advanced behavior modeling has actually been developed not by trying to account for every possible outcome, but by implementing basic rules within a system. This has allowed models to create exponentially complex behaviors with minimal data. So the same programmers you refer to also came up with a more logical theory of rule based systems.

Essentailly you can create a model of infinitly complex behaviors based on very small rule sets, this has been illustrated in some very basic applications such as modeling flocks of birds:
They enter a few simple rules such as: what other birds to avoid, maximum speed and turn radius, tendancy to move to the center of the flock, etc. - these rules then play themselves out and create a huge amount of complexity.

http://www.lalena.com/AI/Flock/Flock.aspx
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/

Whether birds can collapse a wave function has yet to be determined…