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stevewoolf:
New Blip CEO in the house! (Taken with instagram)
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barrettinhistory:
Submission #12 by GunsAndRobots:
“Saving Private Barrett”
This is definitely one of my favorites so far.
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Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool. A few seconds later, you reach into the box and pull out a full-size footstool: The sand has assembled itself into a large-scale replica of the model.
That may sound like a scene from a Harry Potter novel, but it’s the vision animating a research project at the Distributed Robotics Laboratory (DRL) at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. At the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in May — the world’s premier robotics conference — DRL researchers will present a paper describing algorithms that could enable such “smart sand.” They also describe experiments in which they tested the algorithms on somewhat larger particles — cubes about 10 millimeters to an edge, with rudimentary microprocessors inside and very unusual magnets on four of their sides.
Self-sculpting sand - MIT News Office
We live in the future.
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barrettinhistory:
Submission #8 by evangotlib:
“Barrett knew that while the battle was won the war had only just begun. Hence the cool shades.”
“Future so bright…”
Funny enough, this one was almost true. I got an offer from a friend to attend the inauguration, but something tells me our location would have been somewhat more distant.
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TV Promo: HBO’s The Newsroom
From Aaron Sorkin, starring Jeff Daniels. Emily Mortimer, Alison Pill, Dev Patel, John Gallagher, Jr., Olivia Munn, Thomas Sadoski , Sam Waterston, and Jane Fonda.
Holy. shit. It’s like the best parts of Sports Night, West Wing, and Studio 60 rolled into one. Also, don’t think that opening tirade didn’t recall the Studio 60 pilot, Mr. Sorkin.(via imwithkanye)
I think I just came on the sofa.
After reading one of the early drafts, this…doesn’t alleviate my concerns. Yes, the promo’s awesome, but the issues with the draft weren’t whether smart people could say compelling things with an accentuated air of urgency, they were:
- Every character who wasn’t played by Emily Mortimer or Jeff Daniels was completely interchangeable, despite spending a LOT of time on screen talking at each other.
- The amount of obvious idea recycling from Studio 60, Sports Night, and West Wing.
Now I haven’t seen a recent draft, so those could (read: “should”) be fixed, and I may be criticizing issues that have long since been solved. But nothing in the above promo makes me think so. It still looks like all the character development is spent on just two characters, the secondary characters will be used solely as plot/situation fodder, and you’ll recognize a lot of situations from previous works.
I love Aaron Sorkin, so I’m hoping I’m wrong, but the only thing I could think of while reading it before was “Come on man, you’re better than this.” Fingers crossed that I get to eat my words in a couple months.
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epic4chan:
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let the revolution begin 画
Who’s in?
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barrettinhistory:
Submission #4 by GunsAndRobots:
“Barrett helped watch for potential assassins of Oswald.”
…rather poorly, apparently. I’ve never been the most productive on Sundays.
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barrettinhistory:
Submission #3 by ladimcbeth:
“Barrett was FDR’s top aide at the 1945 Yalta Conference.”
Apparently I was both highly decorated and somewhat incredulous towards Churchill.