Original content here?

So far, this blog has only existed as a place to paste interesting things that I find around the web. Personal updates have mostly been on facebook. But I’m increasingly unhappy with facebook. What I really want is a fully open-source alternative. But boy, have there been a lot of false starts there (notably Diaspora*). I’m half-considering making this blog (or perhaps a self-hosted wordpress blog) be the primary place I put original content, even tiny snippets. I’ve got an IFTT recipe set up to automatically move stuff from this blog to FB. The huge downside, of course, is that 99% of comments are on FB, and there’s not a way to push those back to here in any permanent way. Dunno. Mulling it over.

Brain-to-brain interface for Direct Rat Control

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Life imitates “Fringe” with development of brain-to-brain interface
Scientists managed to link the brains of a conscious human and an anesthetized rat, allowing the human to wiggle the rat’s tail with his thoughts. And all God’s creatures said, “Holy shitballs!”

    

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Why I switched from iPhone to Android | TechHive

Why I switched from iPhone to Android | TechHive: “My positive reviews of new iPhones and new editions of iOS have always been sincere. Wait, “sincere?” Sometimes, they’ve been downright florid. I’ve been so enthusiastic that I’ve often been accused of saying those things because I’m an Apple fanboy.

I’ve always had a standard response. “In 2007, I switched to the iPhone because it was way better than the Windows Mobile device I was using at the time,” I would say. “If someday in the future somebody makes a phone and an OS that’s a better fit for me and my peculiar needs than the iPhone, I’ll make the exact same choice.”

Yep: that day has come. “

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