Hubris: Acegiak's Blag Postmodernist Geek

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Uncle Walt died on this day in 1892, aged 72…

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”

Photo: George C. Cox, 1887

Not only the great American poet, but also the Great American.

Reblogged from John Green’s tumblr: i12bent:

Uncle Walt died on this day in 1892, aged 72…
“This is…

Cassum ab Acegiak: Researchers at Brown University have succeeded in creating the first wireless, implantable, rechargeable, long-term brain-computer interface. The wireless BCIs have been implanted in pigs and monkeys for over 13 months without issue, and human subjects are next.

Researchers at Brown University have succeeded in creating the first wireless, implantable, rechargeable, long-term brain-computer interface. The wireless BCIs have been implanted in pigs and monkeys for over 13 months without issue, and human subjects are next.

Reblogged from Cassum ab Acegiak: Researchers at Brown University have succeeded in creating the first wireless, implantable, rechargeable, long-term brain-computer interface. The wireless BCIs have been implanted in pigs and monkeys for over 13 months without issue, and human subjects are next.

Tumblr Radar Hider

Quick and dirty little greasemonkey script to hide the Tumblr radar as requested by someone I follow.

Firefox users will need the Greasemonkey addon
Some Chrome users will need the Tampermonkey Extension if they get chrome’s stupid new “you can’t install extensions from this site” error.

Script:
Tumblr Radr Hidr – Greasemonkey/Chrome Script