We just picked 2 of them up. They require no contract at purchase time, so we own the units without being required to purchase service.
At least for some time... I suppose the company will react and tie the device to some contract. The thing is, the machine will only connect to their specific ISP, by what the FAQ says. So, no need to scare customers with a contract. That is, until some fellow slashdotter hacks the thing:)
So get them fast while they are for free (almost - a hundred bucks plus some scrap HD plus a weekend of work)! I can't believe this, honestly, it looks like a sweet piece of hardware, nice styling, very cool. Will buy a couple of them Monday. Big wow factor, nice to have on the kitchen and maybe the bathroom, and amaze friends... 'I CANT BELIEVE IT IS RUNNNING LINUX!'. And all for $100 bucks! THIS IS AMAZING! Very cool, for the price. And they HAVE to be losing money on this units.
The unit as is is not THAT bad. From the FAQ:
Q: What are the specifications for i-opener's browser? A: The browser supports the following technologies: HTML 3.2 (frames, forms, Tables); HTTP 1.1; JavaScript 1.1 (no child windows); cookies; and SSL 128-bit encryption.
And also supports Real Audio 5.0 streams. Out of the box, I would use it on my kitchen or somewhere on the house if it had ethernet... but I am going for the hack.
I am to lazy to read the full thread, but I have seen a system which, scaled down, *could* work. I have a small aircraft, and walking through airports, and in industrial settings, they use this low profile flat beds (motorized or non) which has half-exposed metal balls like ball bearings. The operator, using a hand control with a joystick and some switches, can make a container or a box on it rotate, move in any direction or do both at the same time. I once walked up to one of these guys, and he explained to me how it worked and bragged (bad english - is this ok?) on how good he was. It was amazing how he moved one of those airliner containerized cargo bins they use to standarize luggage handling - he made the thing dance around, moved it to the edge and then reversed the direction of travel fastly. He would move it in one direction while at the same time rotating it. They use this in airports to move the cargo from the little trains they take it to the terminal to the conveyor belts that take them up to the airplane cargo floor, and rotate it so it goes in correctly. And visceversa of course.
I could see a system like this easily miniutirezed (no spell check there obviously) to a small enough not to be uncomfortable for human feet wearing shoes. The system would not (most of the time) move the user, it would offer resistance to motion, variable of course, and the input of the motion would easily be converted into a computer. I see no setbacks in this design, no show stopper, but then I have not done the investigation. The system would have to be set in motion after the person begins walking, so that when his feet touch the virtual floor, it would be moving. All of this and more considerations should be made.
Now, I am going to take the time AND read the thread. Should be pretty interesting.
(sorry for the english, I hope what matters, the idea, went through)
People, try TopSecret, it uses a Tiny Encryption Algorithm, which uses a published encryption algorithm using 128 bytes keys. It seems pretty solid, has a very good conduit, Win app, and let you keep as many memos you want. Try it @:
It is not a plane, it is "an empty airplane shell with a house inside" as you said. No enginces, no fuel lines, no control surfaces, no avionics, nothing at all besides de shell.
Pretty lame if you ask me. Cool, a REAL airplane house. Nut, that would require some BIG megabucks to buy and mantain.
I want to share my experience with you, as I do with everyone who is considering this surgery. I am quite enthusiastic of doing so, since my experience was so positive. I did mine in the Eye (Not eye, but Oftalmologico, to lazy to go for the dictionary) Clinic in Cali, Colombia. The doctors here are highly trained prophesionals, and the equipment is the latest. They are very experience, one of the first institutions to do this surgery in south america and the first in my country.
Before the operation they do all kind of tests to ensure success in the surgery. I specially remember a test where they did a 3D scan of your eye, and based on the 3D relief they got they planned the laser strength and distribution to shape your eyeball to the correct geometric proportions it should have. All done by computers, and being a geek I was quite amazed by it. Not your 'read the letters' kind of eye exam.
The surgery is very safe, and has a lot of advantages over the old type of surgery. If anything goes wrong, it can be repeated within 1 week to correct the error. In the old surgery you had to wait for 6 monthes for the eye to heal itself. It is ambulatory (??), you walk out of the operating room with your eyes open. The old operation depended on the skill of the surgeon, since he used a blade directly on your eye, and made cuts to correct the geometry of your eyes. The risks where high, and I know people who blew their eyesight for ever with this old surgery. In this one, the only risk factor is that YOU move your eyes when the laser is active, so it all goes down to you. Let me tell you about the surgery.
It is a simple process, you feel no pain at all and most of what happens is psychological, since you are awake and seeing everything that is happening through the eye they are operating on. But you do not feel a thing, trust me on that. First, they clean your eye throughly and put pain killers and medicine on it. Then, they fix a suction pump in the form of a ring around your eyeball, which make your eyeball flat so they can use a high frequency vibrating blade to peel up a very thin slice of your cornea. The take this round section off, you actually see it as they take it away, about the size of a contact lense. Then, they put you underneath the machine, under the laser, and tell you to hold still and stare at a led. This is the critical part, as they beggin firing the laser, you need to hold still. They did 40 firings on one of my eyes, 35 on the other one. You can even fill a smell of burning flesh in the air. After the firings, they clean the ashes away, and put the piece of cornea back on top of where they cutted it. The cornea is the part of the body that heals faster, and within five minutes you can blink safely. You go out of the hospital within 15 minutes, walking, with your eye open, only protected by a little plastic shell so, that night, you will not risk peeling away the cornea which is still not 100% stuck in place. They did one eye on tuesdaym the other on thursday. They normally do it this way. Slowly I began to get my vision back, within a day I could read a little and watch TV, and within a week resume normal computer usage. The only thing I felt for about 2 or 3 weeks was a very high sensibility to bright light, had to wear sunglasses and car headlight hurted me. This is how the operation works, sorry for my language, my english is not the best and obviously i know s**t about medical terms. Dont let my crude description of the process scare you, it is quite amazing to live through it, and you do not feel a thing, as I said, you are very tense but it is all psychological.
I would recomend to anyone doing the operation in a country like Colombia. Medicine here is great, and it is very cheap. The doctor is very well learned and travels 3-4 times a year to the states and world wide to conferences and stuff, speaks excelent english, and is very well knows. When I did the surgery, 3 years ago, they had performed more or less 200 surgerys, with only 5 out of aceptance range (+- 0.5 I think) which were corrected, and 1 that had problems. 3 years into the operation my eyesight is still perfect. They even overcorrected me for the best. My eyesight problem was still increasing, so they overdid it so, 3 years after, my eyesight has stabilized a little over 20/20. If you want further info, email me and I would give you the email of the doctor. He can inform you of costs involved. I do not know if they are doing this surgery yet in the states, they weren't on the time I underwent it. If you do the surgery overseas and the doctors are responsible, you will have to travel twice, once to get the tests done, the other to take the surgery itselt. I think so. Do not know the reasons, I had to take two series of tests, very throught (complete), 2 monthes before and a week before. Also, I could not use contact lenses for 3 monthes before and stay away from pools for a couple of weeks before. Of course, after the operation, you have to stay away from pools for a while, take some medicine in drops, and stay away from doing effort with your eyes for a week or so.
Overall, I hope this help. Email me with any question you got, I would be happy to help. My recommendation is go for it, it is great, will make you very happy, absolutely risk free and very well worth the cost and (small) inconvenience.
Best wishes,
Venturello
pd. Sorry for my english. Dont flame me or correct me as usual for it!:)
God, I am DYING to see this screenshots. Hope they are no fakes. I am a big palm, and it 3com succeds on implementig color with the usual PalmOS speed, harwawre size, and battery life, I will love it. Everybody speaks about how much it would suck with a low battery life, but I tell you something. The battery on my Palm Vx are lithium ion, as many should know, and they are rated for over 2 days of continous use! But, if they 'only' lasted 10 hours I wouldn't care, or notice, because I always drop it on the cradle at night when they recharge. And when I travel, which I do a lot, I take the charging cable (and hotsyng with my laptop via IR), and there is even a car recharger available. So, if they do a good color implementation, with decent battery life, I bet it will be a hit. At least I would buy it. Hope they can keep the size down, would love color on a Palm V size. For those that have never touched a V, you should, the small size is amazing. Get the hard case for $30 bucks, and you can carry it around in you pants, your blue jeans, seat on it, abuse it, put it anywhere, the hard case is HARD as hell. I threat mine as shit and the palm itself is in mint condition. And, with the hard case on, it is smaller than a Palm III, smaller than my wallet. Love this thing.:) Just my 2c worth. Go palm!
This is NOT truth. Anand tests boards for things such as upgradebality and reliability. Try reading the motherboard comparisons, where he had winners in different categories, that is, he recommended an Abit board for tweakers and overclockers, while saying at the same time that it was not the most stable solution, and not the best option for end-users that do not overclock and for servers. In another category, he had the best all around board for non tweakers, an Asus (I THINK - not sure).
Anand is by far the most reliable and objective reviewer around. I have been following his development since he began his site, literally. He is decent and unbiased, as others are. His tests are methodic and reproducible, and he worries a lot more for quality than for volume. Now and then he voices his opinions, but he is very aware of the community and its needs, and that not everyone is a overclocker.
Yes, he writes greats books and some decade ago he predicted the communications satelite, and is even foolishly called its inventor. But now, he is way way way off, think about this:
2002 The first commercial device producing clean, safe power by low-temperature nuclear reactions goes on the market, heralding the end of the Fossil-Fuel Age. Economic and geopolitical earthquakes follow, and, for their discovery of so-called "Cold Fusion" in 1989, Pons and Fleischmann receive the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Thats the way most 'next century' predictions go. They tell us what we want to hear. The world will continue to develop, but besides IT and advance science, it will be the same in a decade. Cloning, yes, it is posible, but that will not entirely change our way of live, as a cheap, portable and safe source of energy. The goverment wont put an end to fossil fuel car enginces, they are to common, to easy to use, to cheap and have a gigantic pressure group behind them. In 2010, we will still be driving cars, flying 747's, and dreaming about someday going cheaply to space. We wont have 'quantum energy generators' nor nuclear weapons be banished after a brief discussion. Megawatt hour? Worldwide currency? Nah! Say dollar, say Euro, which will be then the closest to a global currency for trading, but locally? Hmmmm. Ai in 2020? Oh, how much I would LOVE to see AI develop in my lifetime. This one, at least, IMHO, I see as possible.
As always, Mr. Clarke looking for a spotlight, telling us what we want to hear. Pseudoscience? Oh yes! Try to read this book. It is GREAT.
2040 The "Universal Replicator," based on nano-technology, is perfected: any object, however complex, can be created - given the necessary raw material and the appropriate information matrix. Diamonds or gourmet meals can, literally, be made from dirt. As a result, agriculture and industry are phased out, ending that recent invention in human history - work! There is an explosion in arts, entertainment and education. Hunter-gathering societies are deliberately recreated; huge areas of the planet, no longer needed for food production, are allowed to revert to their original state. Young people can now discharge their aggressive instincts by using cross-bows to stalk big game, which is robotic and frequently dangerous.
Wishful thinking!! Gaia! (not to mention something like this would spell the end for economy, the need to work, it would be 'heaven on earth' and ultimately, the end of humanity)
Now, what I DO believe is that the human race will 'evolve' thanks to technology. Nut we will be bastards, humans, all the way. There will still be dumb-asses, politicians, lawyers, criminals, thirdworldcountries, etc etc for a very long time.
If you want to learn alot about the creationists and other losers, and the logical arguments which they use and how easy it is to counter them, try reading:
Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
At amazon you can read some VERY good reviews at this address:
This book is written by one of the founder of the Skeptic magazine, which is VERY good and centers around creationism and other pseudosciences, and how to counter them. Very very good reading, you can find it in ANY place with many magazines, ie Barnes and Nobles. The current one is about the cloning debate, but it covers more topics. Go fo it, and try this book, it is amazingly great, well written and interesting for any one 'amused' by all this movements.
Got mine from BestBuy (the real thing, not the www) at a very good price. The new models where getting out, so they had this one under heavy discount. Had to drive 1 hour to get to a store where it was available, but no problem. Very very happy with it, it is fast as hell, runs windows and linux perfectly, is very small and I use it everywhere. The 1024x768 screen is gorgeous. Online? Huh, no idea.:) Good luck, go for it, best laptop Ive had in 10 years, first one that lets me run linux as well as the box back home.
So? The guy is my heroe. He is the one who got me into science. Never heard about him and pot. Yet... So What? The thing is many people take this as a bad deal, and so I do not like his image being damaged in the mind of fools who see this as a big deal. 'Oh, he smoke pot, oh, my kids will never see Cosmos.'
Slashdot Mirror
We just picked 2 of them up. They require no contract at purchase time, so we own the units without being required to purchase service.
:)
At least for some time... I suppose the company will react and tie the device to some contract. The thing is, the machine will only connect to their specific ISP, by what the FAQ says. So, no need to scare customers with a contract. That is, until some fellow slashdotter hacks the thing
So get them fast while they are for free (almost - a hundred bucks plus some scrap HD plus a weekend of work)! I can't believe this, honestly, it looks like a sweet piece of hardware, nice styling, very cool. Will buy a couple of them Monday. Big wow factor, nice to have on the kitchen and maybe the bathroom, and amaze friends... 'I CANT BELIEVE IT IS RUNNNING LINUX!'. And all for $100 bucks! THIS IS AMAZING! Very cool, for the price. And they HAVE to be losing money on this units.
The unit as is is not THAT bad. From the FAQ:
Q: What are the specifications for i-opener's browser? A: The browser supports the following technologies: HTML 3.2 (frames, forms, Tables); HTTP 1.1; JavaScript 1.1 (no child windows); cookies; and SSL 128-bit encryption.
And also supports Real Audio 5.0 streams. Out of the box, I would use it on my kitchen or somewhere on the house if it had ethernet... but I am going for the hack.
Thanks to ken for bringing this to us!
No it wont. The resistor you have to move is below the BIOS and would be below the socket, so you would have to remove the socket too :) :)
Honestly, did you read the article?
Nice suggestion...
:)
I am to lazy to read the full thread, but I have seen a system which, scaled down, *could* work. I have a small aircraft, and walking through airports, and in industrial settings, they use this low profile flat beds (motorized or non) which has half-exposed metal balls like ball bearings. The operator, using a hand control with a joystick and some switches, can make a container or a box on it rotate, move in any direction or do both at the same time. I once walked up to one of these guys, and he explained to me how it worked and bragged (bad english - is this ok?) on how good he was. It was amazing how he moved one of those airliner containerized cargo bins they use to standarize luggage handling - he made the thing dance around, moved it to the edge and then reversed the direction of travel fastly. He would move it in one direction while at the same time rotating it. They use this in airports to move the cargo from the little trains they take it to the terminal to the conveyor belts that take them up to the airplane cargo floor, and rotate it so it goes in correctly. And visceversa of course.
I could see a system like this easily miniutirezed (no spell check there obviously) to a small enough not to be uncomfortable for human feet wearing shoes. The system would not (most of the time) move the user, it would offer resistance to motion, variable of course, and the input of the motion would easily be converted into a computer. I see no setbacks in this design, no show stopper, but then I have not done the investigation. The system would have to be set in motion after the person begins walking, so that when his feet touch the virtual floor, it would be moving. All of this and more considerations should be made.
Now, I am going to take the time AND read the thread. Should be pretty interesting.
(sorry for the english, I hope what matters, the idea, went through)
People, try TopSecret, it uses a Tiny Encryption Algorithm, which uses a published encryption algorithm using 128 bytes keys. It seems pretty solid, has a very good conduit, Win app, and let you keep as many memos you want. Try it @:
www.clicklite.com
Please read the article!!
:)
It is not a plane, it is "an empty airplane shell with a house inside" as you said. No enginces, no fuel lines, no control surfaces, no avionics, nothing at all besides de shell.
Pretty lame if you ask me. Cool, a REAL airplane house. Nut, that would require some BIG megabucks to buy and mantain.
Remember contact??
The doctor doing the surgery fucked it up beyond belief and butchered her corneas.
My question is, was this laser surgery? As far as I know, the chances of the doctor fucking up on this surgery are slim...
I want to share my experience with you, as I do with everyone who is considering this surgery. I am quite enthusiastic of doing so, since my experience was so positive. I did mine in the Eye (Not eye, but Oftalmologico, to lazy to go for the dictionary) Clinic in Cali, Colombia. The doctors here are highly trained prophesionals, and the equipment is the latest. They are very experience, one of the first institutions to do this surgery in south america and the first in my country.
:)
Before the operation they do all kind of tests to ensure success in the surgery. I specially remember a test where they did a 3D scan of your eye, and based on the 3D relief they got they planned the laser strength and distribution to shape your eyeball to the correct geometric proportions it should have. All done by computers, and being a geek I was quite amazed by it. Not your 'read the letters' kind of eye exam.
The surgery is very safe, and has a lot of advantages over the old type of surgery. If anything goes wrong, it can be repeated within 1 week to correct the error. In the old surgery you had to wait for 6 monthes for the eye to heal itself. It is ambulatory (??), you walk out of the operating room with your eyes open. The old operation depended on the skill of the surgeon, since he used a blade directly on your eye, and made cuts to correct the geometry of your eyes. The risks where high, and I know people who blew their eyesight for ever with this old surgery. In this one, the only risk factor is that YOU move your eyes when the laser is active, so it all goes down to you. Let me tell you about the surgery.
It is a simple process, you feel no pain at all and most of what happens is psychological, since you are awake and seeing everything that is happening through the eye they are operating on. But you do not feel a thing, trust me on that. First, they clean your eye throughly and put pain killers and medicine on it. Then, they fix a suction pump in the form of a ring around your eyeball, which make your eyeball flat so they can use a high frequency vibrating blade to peel up a very thin slice of your cornea. The take this round section off, you actually see it as they take it away, about the size of a contact lense. Then, they put you underneath the machine, under the laser, and tell you to hold still and stare at a led. This is the critical part, as they beggin firing the laser, you need to hold still. They did 40 firings on one of my eyes, 35 on the other one. You can even fill a smell of burning flesh in the air. After the firings, they clean the ashes away, and put the piece of cornea back on top of where they cutted it. The cornea is the part of the body that heals faster, and within five minutes you can blink safely. You go out of the hospital within 15 minutes, walking, with your eye open, only protected by a little plastic shell so, that night, you will not risk peeling away the cornea which is still not 100% stuck in place. They did one eye on tuesdaym the other on thursday. They normally do it this way. Slowly I began to get my vision back, within a day I could read a little and watch TV, and within a week resume normal computer usage. The only thing I felt for about 2 or 3 weeks was a very high sensibility to bright light, had to wear sunglasses and car headlight hurted me. This is how the operation works, sorry for my language, my english is not the best and obviously i know s**t about medical terms. Dont let my crude description of the process scare you, it is quite amazing to live through it, and you do not feel a thing, as I said, you are very tense but it is all psychological.
I would recomend to anyone doing the operation in a country like Colombia. Medicine here is great, and it is very cheap. The doctor is very well learned and travels 3-4 times a year to the states and world wide to conferences and stuff, speaks excelent english, and is very well knows. When I did the surgery, 3 years ago, they had performed more or less 200 surgerys, with only 5 out of aceptance range (+- 0.5 I think) which were corrected, and 1 that had problems. 3 years into the operation my eyesight is still perfect. They even overcorrected me for the best. My eyesight problem was still increasing, so they overdid it so, 3 years after, my eyesight has stabilized a little over 20/20. If you want further info, email me and I would give you the email of the doctor. He can inform you of costs involved. I do not know if they are doing this surgery yet in the states, they weren't on the time I underwent it. If you do the surgery overseas and the doctors are responsible, you will have to travel twice, once to get the tests done, the other to take the surgery itselt. I think so. Do not know the reasons, I had to take two series of tests, very throught (complete), 2 monthes before and a week before. Also, I could not use contact lenses for 3 monthes before and stay away from pools for a couple of weeks before. Of course, after the operation, you have to stay away from pools for a while, take some medicine in drops, and stay away from doing effort with your eyes for a week or so.
Overall, I hope this help. Email me with any question you got, I would be happy to help. My recommendation is go for it, it is great, will make you very happy, absolutely risk free and very well worth the cost and (small) inconvenience.
Best wishes,
Venturello
pd. Sorry for my english. Dont flame me or correct me as usual for it!
Jejejeh.
You guys dont miss one, dont you?
I am a big palm fan....
And thanks to the people who placed the mirrors.
God, I am DYING to see this screenshots. Hope they are no fakes. I am a big palm, and it 3com succeds on implementig color with the usual PalmOS speed, harwawre size, and battery life, I will love it. Everybody speaks about how much it would suck with a low battery life, but I tell you something. The battery on my Palm Vx are lithium ion, as many should know, and they are rated for over 2 days of continous use! But, if they 'only' lasted 10 hours I wouldn't care, or notice, because I always drop it on the cradle at night when they recharge. And when I travel, which I do a lot, I take the charging cable (and hotsyng with my laptop via IR), and there is even a car recharger available. So, if they do a good color implementation, with decent battery life, I bet it will be a hit. At least I would buy it. Hope they can keep the size down, would love color on a Palm V size. For those that have never touched a V, you should, the small size is amazing. Get the hard case for $30 bucks, and you can carry it around in you pants, your blue jeans, seat on it, abuse it, put it anywhere, the hard case is HARD as hell. I threat mine as shit and the palm itself is in mint condition. And, with the hard case on, it is smaller than a Palm III, smaller than my wallet. Love this thing. :) Just my 2c worth. Go palm!
Furst... how typical of an AC...
/. should ban this people.
Uhhhh, I will, like, uh, type really fast so... uh, I will be first and, uh, be cool and bother everyone and, huhuh, be cool.
Gosh,
This is NOT truth. Anand tests boards for things such as upgradebality and reliability. Try reading the motherboard comparisons, where he had winners in different categories, that is, he recommended an Abit board for tweakers and overclockers, while saying at the same time that it was not the most stable solution, and not the best option for end-users that do not overclock and for servers. In another category, he had the best all around board for non tweakers, an Asus (I THINK - not sure).
Anand is by far the most reliable and objective reviewer around. I have been following his development since he began his site, literally. He is decent and unbiased, as others are. His tests are methodic and reproducible, and he worries a lot more for quality than for volume. Now and then he voices his opinions, but he is very aware of the community and its needs, and that not everyone is a overclocker.
Yes, he writes greats books and some decade ago he predicted the communications satelite, and is even foolishly called its inventor. But now, he is way way way off, think about this:
2002 The first commercial device producing clean, safe power by low-temperature nuclear reactions goes on the market, heralding the end of the Fossil-Fuel Age. Economic and geopolitical earthquakes follow, and, for their discovery of so-called "Cold Fusion" in 1989, Pons and Fleischmann receive the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Thats the way most 'next century' predictions go. They tell us what we want to hear. The world will continue to develop, but besides IT and advance science, it will be the same in a decade. Cloning, yes, it is posible, but that will not entirely change our way of live, as a cheap, portable and safe source of energy. The goverment wont put an end to fossil fuel car enginces, they are to common, to easy to use, to cheap and have a gigantic pressure group behind them. In 2010, we will still be driving cars, flying 747's, and dreaming about someday going cheaply to space. We wont have 'quantum energy generators' nor nuclear weapons be banished after a brief discussion. Megawatt hour? Worldwide currency? Nah! Say dollar, say Euro, which will be then the closest to a global currency for trading, but locally? Hmmmm. Ai in 2020? Oh, how much I would LOVE to see AI develop in my lifetime. This one, at least, IMHO, I see as possible.
As always, Mr. Clarke looking for a spotlight, telling us what we want to hear. Pseudoscience? Oh yes! Try to read this book. It is GREAT.
Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
How about this:
2040 The "Universal Replicator," based on nano-technology, is perfected: any object, however complex, can be created - given the necessary raw material and the appropriate information matrix. Diamonds or gourmet meals can, literally, be made from dirt. As a result, agriculture and industry are phased out, ending that recent invention in human history - work! There is an explosion in arts, entertainment and education. Hunter-gathering societies are deliberately recreated; huge areas of the planet, no longer needed for food production, are allowed to revert to their original state. Young people can now discharge their aggressive instincts by using cross-bows to stalk big game, which is robotic and frequently dangerous.
Wishful thinking!! Gaia! (not to mention something like this would spell the end for economy, the need to work, it would be 'heaven on earth' and ultimately, the end of humanity)
Now, what I DO believe is that the human race will 'evolve' thanks to technology. Nut we will be bastards, humans, all the way. There will still be dumb-asses, politicians, lawyers, criminals, thirdworldcountries, etc etc for a very long time.
If you want to learn alot about the creationists and other losers, and the logical arguments which they use and how easy it is to counter them, try reading:
7 0/o/qid=939537846/sr=8-1/002-6994426-57644 52
Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
At amazon you can read some VERY good reviews at this address:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/07167338
This book is written by one of the founder of the Skeptic magazine, which is VERY good and centers around creationism and other pseudosciences, and how to counter them. Very very good reading, you can find it in ANY place with many magazines, ie Barnes and Nobles. The current one is about the cloning debate, but it covers more topics. Go fo it, and try this book, it is amazingly great, well written and interesting for any one 'amused' by all this movements.
Its called humor. And rather good.
Got mine from BestBuy (the real thing, not the www) at a very good price. The new models where getting out, so they had this one under heavy discount. Had to drive 1 hour to get to a store where it was available, but no problem. Very very happy with it, it is fast as hell, runs windows and linux perfectly, is very small and I use it everywhere. The 1024x768 screen is gorgeous. Online? Huh, no idea. :) Good luck, go for it, best laptop Ive had in 10 years, first one that lets me run linux as well as the box back home.
No way for a moderator to delete this?
So? The guy is my heroe. He is the one who got me into science. Never heard about him and pot. Yet... So What? The thing is many people take this as a bad deal, and so I do not like his image being damaged in the mind of fools who see this as a big deal. 'Oh, he smoke pot, oh, my kids will never see Cosmos.'