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One man's quest to earn the Most Human Human award at the Turing Test.
The author calls it an essay, but i believe that it's more apposite to label his article a manifesto regarding the ownership of data.
Why has this man been donating well-made art forgeries to museums for the past three decades?
"Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and the former Alaska governor Sarah Palin have something in common: they are both cowgirl politicians. In this, they are symptomatic of the too-narrow ways in which the United States is willing to accept women as leaders."
There is a 14-year-old girl who lives in poverty in Uganda who said to her chess coach, "Coach, I will be a grandmaster someday."
A woman who has no amygdala and no fear.
If i told you that 80% of the antibiotics sold in the US were sold for farm animals, you might be skeptical of my claim; but would you believe the FDA?
The Best Magazine Articles Ever
If Ken Thompson calls himself a programmer, not a developer, or an engineer, then anyone who shares that profession should follow suit. I don't care that this article is over 20 years old, damn it. Now get off my lawn.
Scientists from Tübingen, Germany, show that people really walk in circles when lost.
You might remember that i quite enjoyed I ♥ Huckabees; this long essay about the movie is what i would have written if i were in any way qualified to write about philosophy.
don't fuck with the pancreas
Aug. 27th, 2008 08:17 amPosted without attribution because i can't find it:
Surgery has three rules.I'm not kidding. Google it: these are established rules. You don't fuck with the pancreas because it's a poorly-encapsulated organ that, when inflamed, can't hold a stitch worth a good God damn, is a slurry of cells and enzymes that are trying to digest everything they can inside the body, is intimately involved with the superior mesenteric artery and vein, the celiac plexus, overlies the aorta, has a ductal system that must remain intact, is prone to form high-output fistulas, can trigger fatal systemic inflammation and —and— is so anatomically crucial that removal of the head of the pancreas can only be accomplished if you also remove part of the duodenum, gallbladder, part of the biliary tract and half the stomach.
- Eat when you can
- Sleep when you can
- Don't fuck with the pancreas
Surgerizing the pancreas is like trying to remodel a house full of gasoline. And the house is made of Jell-O. And sits on top of a kindergarten. And it's on fire. And filled with bees. Don't fuck with the pancreas.
Insert standard Intelligent Design joke here.
