Interesting bit on data mining cars, but it’ll never happen. Not for a long time at least, when the government will probably mandate it for our “safety.”
This bit kills me:
He believes that as the car of the future studies the driver’s voice, facial expressions and emotional state using a camera and even blood pressure monitors [...]

I really hope Obama is the superhero that so many believe he is, although forgive me if I’m a little too cynical to build a shrine in my front yard. However, having long resisted recidivist tendencies to canonize politicians (ok, I liked Ron Paul…sue me), I like some of what the man has to say [...]

End of the world hedge funds? Cool. Apocalypse investing… Armageddon insurance…a whole new way to look at diversifying your portfolio. I was thinking about gold but this is much more interesting.
I became intrigued by an oddity that I came to think of as the end-of-the-world trade. The trade is the purchase of insurance against what [...]

I always wonder what a space death would be like every time they jettison someone out the airlock on Battlestar Galactica. Dramatic and painful perhaps, similar to drowning…but just imagine the view. I’ve never thought of asphyxiation as an acceptable dramatic death for myself, but soaring through space may be an exception.
At most, an astronaut [...]