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January 18th, 2012 
Daniel Fincke If Freethought Blogs Goes Dark In The Future…
January 17th, 2012 Daniel Fincke …this will be the cause. Your Thoughts?
How You Get Millions of People to Cooperate in a Global Project for Free
January 2nd, 2012 Daniel Fincke Fascinating stuff: After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. At TEDxCMU, he shares how his ambitious new project, Duolingo, will help millions learn a new language while translating the Web quickly and accurately — [...]
The Google Bubble
October 1st, 2011 Daniel Fincke Eli Pariser, author of The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You, explains how websites from Facebook to Google change our search results to tell us want they think we already want to hear: “Don’t Bubble Us” is another link concisely summing up these themes. Duck Duck Go is a search engine which [...]
A 1917 Subway Car Back In Service In NYC
September 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke There is a subway that I sometimes ride that shuttles back and forth all day between Grand Central Station and Times Square and it is the most wonderful subway advertising experience because the entire interior of the train will be designed as a giant ad for something—be it the baseball playoffs or a Broadway show [...]
Two Artificially Intelligent “Chatbots” Talk About God
September 2nd, 2011 Daniel Fincke and other stuff: There you have it, even artificial intelligence cannot talk about God coherently. Your Thoughts?
Uploading and Religion: Criticism of Stross
June 23rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke by Eric Steinhart Charlie Stross, author of the highly-praised novel Accelerando, has written an interesting skeptical article on the technological singularity. The article makes many good points — except when it comes to “religion”. When it comes to “religion”, specifically religion and mind-uploading, what he says is remarkably silly. Here it is: Uploading … is [...]
How They Used To Make Books
April 25th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Oh what we take for granted. Your Thoughts?
God (i.e., Google) Tells Us The Future
April 22nd, 2011 Daniel Fincke Google, the most divine being on Earth, has these prophecies about the future for us (via its prophet, xkcd): Your Thoughts?
Vintage Kermit the Frog From "Sam & Friends" On Visual Thinking
February 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Amazing footage, it boggles my mind to see Kermit in the ’50s: It’s such a shame that Jim Henson’s deft, pitch perfect sense of humor and imagination died with him. Most things muppet-related have been bland, assembly line, Disneyfied hack work since 1990. Blegh. Kermit the Frog is dead, long live Kermit the Frog. Your [...]
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Tags: Jim Henson, Kermit the Frog, Sam & Friends, Vintage 
No Comments »1/4 Of All Internet Time Is Spent On Facebook
February 2nd, 2011 Daniel Fincke Just one of the interesting details from this informative interview about marketing on Facebook: This reminds me, please like Camels With Hammers on Facebook to stay caught up with us and help spread the word about the site to your friends! Your support or lack thereof makes or breaks a blog. Never underestimate your power [...]
Posted in Culture and Technology, Culture and Technology Tags: Business, Facebook, Marketing No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Anatomy Of The Archetypical Internet Debate
February 1st, 2011 Daniel Fincke I admit parts of this hit a little too close to home. And by “home” I mean Facebook of course. via Your Thoughts?
Is Facebook For Networking Or Isn’t It?
January 29th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Last year, the week of Easter, atheists all over Facebook changed our pictures to the “scarlet A”, signifying our willingness to stand out and stand up in solidarity with other atheists. “‘A’ Week” was a major event for me since I got the idea of mass-friending people with the A avatars without even realizing there [...]
NYPD Blue Moons The FCC With Court Approval
January 4th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A good day for freedom of speech as the censorious FCC loses its case trying to levy a fine for a naked butt on NYPD Blue: NEW YORK – The Federal Communications Commission cannot fine broadcasters for showing a woman’s nude buttocks on a 2003 episode of “NYPD Blue,” a federal court ruled Tuesday, citing [...]
Can Your Laptop Make You Infertile?
October 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Watch where you put that thing: According to researchers at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, there is a direct correlation between laptop use and increased scrotum temperature. In fact, hot laptops have been found to increase the temperature of scrotums up to 35 degrees above the normal body temperature of 98.6 degrees. [...]
Posted in Culture and Technology, Culture and Technology Tags: Health, Infertility, Laptops No Comments »New Wedding Customs Of The (Probably Near) Future
August 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Chaos Pet glimpses the future: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comic Strips, Comic Strips, Culture and Technology, Culture and Technology, Hilarious Tags: Chaos Pet, Facebook, Wedding Vows 3 Comments »Oil From Plastic
August 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke The video below is extraordinary and hope inducing, here’s the YouTube description: The Japanese company Blest has developed one of the smallest and safest oil-to-plastic conversion machines out on the market today. It’s founder and CEO, Akinori Ito is passionate about using this machine to change the way people around the world think about their [...]
Posted in Culture and Technology, Culture and Technology, Science, Science, Technology, Technology, Videos Tags: Akinori Ito, Blest, Oil, Plastic No Comments »Developing Technology So Dissidents Can Use Social Media Covertly
July 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Technology vs. Tyranny: In an attempt to make it easier for dissidents in countries such as China and North Korea to communicate without fear of government sanctions, researchers at Georgia Tech have developed software that can hide information inside messages posted to Twitter and other social networks, as well as in images that can be [...]
Blogging As An Embodiment Of An American Ideal
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Andrew Sullivan argues: I believe the blogosphere first truly gained traction in America for a good reason. There is something about blogging’s freedom from the constraints of conventional journalism that captures an American ideal: civic engagement totally free of anyone else’s influence. It is an ideal of a fourth estate hostile to authorities public and [...]
YouTube’s Margaret Stewart Explains Their Approach To Copyright
June 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Margaret Stewart explains how rights identification is allows copyrighted videos uploaded by users to be accepted or rejected by the rights owners and makes the pitch to rights holders to let their material get uploaded onto YouTube: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Culture and Technology, Law, Videos Tags: Copyright, Margaret Stewart, Youtube No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Your Guide To Internet Dating And Terminology
June 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Culture and Technology, Hilarious, Parody, Videos Tags: Internet, Internet Dating, MisterSharp, Social Networking No Comments »Changing Minds
June 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Steven Pinker compares current worries that the internet is changing how we think and making it more superficial to previous “moral panics” at the arrival of all other new media, from the printing press to newspapers to television. (And his examples might as well have gone all the way back to Plato’s mistrust of the [...]
The “#No God” Twitter Trend FAIL
October 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The de-Convert passes along the story of an amusing atheist twitter “victory”: In a classic case of irony, Christians tried to get the statement “No God, No Peace. Know God, Know Peace” to trend today on Twitter. The result of this was the phrase “No God” became the #1 trending topic. Please understand that atheists [...]
Posted in Atheism, Christianity, Culture and Technology, Pop Culture, Religion Tags: FAIL, Irony, Twitter No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Awkward Facebook “Likes”
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke College Humor has more and they’re really doozies. Your Thoughts?
Facebook Monitoring User Moods
October 5th, 2009 Daniel Fincke uhhhh…. The company’s data team on Monday launched a trippy new application called the “Gross National Happiness Index.” Taking a similar format to its “Lexicon” trend-tracking product, the “GNH” currently displays a graph of data tabulated over the course of the past few years to track the “happiness” of Facebook users based on words picked up [...]
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