Latest Matrix hatchback is roomy, flexible

For the past couple decades, when car shoppers sought a bit of extra elbow room, they got it by buying a car a class larger than their previous car. Within a couple purchase cycles the result was that everyone was driving full-size SUVs like the Chevy Suburban with the justification that they need some extra space for when they pick up their in-laws at the airport once a year or so.

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"If there's a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half price for the thing that's going to make you well?" -- President Obama

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The realm of dress tie knots is dominated by a handful of traditional tie knots. Check out this rather unique tie knot and be the first on your block to sport it.

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You may think anonymity abounds on the web, in your surfing, in your email, in telephone conversations and faxes. But the NSA already knows more about you than your boss, your friends, your family and possibly your spouse. This is top ECHELON stuff.

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How do you feel about the CEO of GM getting "laid off" and taking home a $20,000,000 paycheck? What about when AIG loses hundreds of billions of dollars, then gets $182 billion from the government, then wants to pay out $161 million in bonuses to upper level executives? What …

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"The Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange Program, otherwise known as the "Matrix", was terminated in April 2005. [1]

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I absolutely loved the scenes in the Matrix where Neo dodges bullets. Last week IBM was issued a patent that in theory would give us mortals that ability.

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Excerpt: It might be hard to believe, but there are still plenty of people using "password" as a password for their e-mails, bank accounts and more.

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Enjoy!

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When the American journalist David Plotz took Provigil, he said it should be given a slogan. Just as valium was marketed as "the housewife's little helper," he said this should be sold as "the boss' little helper." It makes you work better and harder than before. More Articles

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Sick Day Movies

My twins are sick today so we are hosting our own mini Scooby Doo marathon. Scooby Doo has the most movies they can agree on. If it was just my daughter, we'd be watching princess movies all day. My son would rather spend the day watch movies like Cars and Speed Racer.

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Increasing numbers of people are using prescription drugs like Ritalin to boost alertness and brain power, say experts. More Articles

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In the Internet age with its endless playground for reinvention and resources for human understanding, it's painfully clear just how hung up we are on appearances.

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...three case studies of what psychiatrists interested in the intersection of mental illness, culture and society are calling, respectively, Truman Show delusion, Internet delusion and climate change delusion; all of them a window, through madness, into the modern world.

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Very Interesting Documenatries

ih` ~ This is a short list of some of the most informative and interesting documentaries I've come across* **************************************** ***************************** ****************** ******** **

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My Top Ten Science Fiction Films

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FILMS WERE SELECTED BASED ON THE 50 ELIGIBLE FILMS FOR THIS YEARS AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE LIST FOR THE TOP TEN SCIENCE FICTION FILMS. THEY ARE ALSO ONLY BASED ON FILMS I HAVE ACTUALLY SEEN. HONORABLE MENTION: STAR WARS (1977)

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The following 10 films are chosen because they shed light on the forces at work within our lives, this very moment. They use satire and metaphor to approach the truths that would otherwise be too difficult to understand, or too terrifying to comprehend.

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Children will learn by downloading information directly into their brains within 30 years, the head of Britain's top private schools organisation has predicted.

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A 'War on Terror' - When 'Insanity' Ruled the World

Reporting on the progress of America's 'war on terror' beginning Tuesday of this last week, both U.S. General David Petraeus and Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker appeared before the House Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Relations.

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If you're a fan of SF and haven't read Robert C Wilson's Darwinia, read this review! If you're a fan of escapist fantasy, don't read it — you might be insulted. You've been warned! Darwinia (1998) is a classic of SF, owes a huge debt to P.K.

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A Look at the new Speed Racer Trailers

I grew up around cars. My father used to lull me to sleep as a child with a trip around the block in his dragster. I spent many weekends during my youth at the racetrack.

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A Swedish company plans to harness the body heat generated by thousands of commuters scrambling to catch their trains at Stockholm's main railway station and use it for heating a nearby office building.

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As the search engine major Google makes its intentions clear on cloud computing, "everything" will be searchable in another 100 years by utilizing its algorithm. For that, all that's needed is information that has to be fed continuously.

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Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else's hobby.

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Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else's hobby.

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It's unsettling to think of the world being run by a futuristic computer geek, although we might at last dispose of that of classic theological question: How could God allow so much evil in the world? For the same reason there are plagues and earthquakes and battles in games li …

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