Shaved rabbit:

She’ll be thoroughly clucked.

Right, so then why are they describing this as “correcting” the distortion, when in fact it is simply choosing a different version of distortion?

He had the backing of the French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, who said his ministry was going to stop using the Mercator map.

Hmm, use it for what, exactly? In the present, nobody is using these maps for navigation, and hopefully not for any serious geography study beyond say the history of cartography… so I guess mostly lower-level education purposes? That’s important, the way we teach children to think about the world certainly matters.

“Changing the map obviously doesn’t change the world. But correcting a representation that distorts it is already an act of truth,” he said.

The pedantic part of me wants to point out that every projection of a 3D object onto a 2D surface requires distortion, especially in a case like this where the entire surface area of the object is shown on a single unbroken plane. At some level, describing one projection as better than another is akin to saying that one way of drawing a cube on a sheet of paper is better than another. More important than picking a winner is having the discussion about the limitations of all forms of projection and how they affect our perceptions, in all subject areas.

If there is a real benefit to making a change like this, it’s in provoking those discussions.

Besides, we all know the Waterman Butterfly is superior:

Sci Fi rocks?

He wants to show her his pecker.

Thanks buddy, I like me too.

That’s quite an assumption for you to make. Why would you believe this to be true about me?

Even worse, yolk sizes are unpredictable, and it’s not like you can open an uncooked egg to check. You had to boil at least a dozen and hope one of them fit.

Yup. I don’t think you can approve of this kind of research without also giving tacit approval to the police state being built around us.

It wasn’t voluntary for any of the people who had their rights violated by GM, OnStar and LexisNexis. And we know they aren’t the only ones doing this shit, they’re just the ones that got caught.

If we lived in a sane society, the people responsible for this shit would be occupying prison cells.

If I, as an individual, took it upon myself to install surveillance devices in peoples’ vehicles and collect behavioral data on them, without their knowledge and explicit consent, I would be (rightly) held criminally liable for that. But because this creepy stalking is being done by corporations, apparently that’s OK.

What a creepy Orwellian system we’ve built, to have this kind of information down to seconds. In the next study they’ll be including what direction the driver’s eyes were pointed in at the time of the crash.

Consent is sexy.

You can’t possibly wait that long.

I mean, it’ll take at least a day for all the deanposters to dean themselves out.

Until the trash gets picked up.

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You can also just shim a Masterlock with a bit of soda can. A stiff piece of plastic will also usually work.

*is causing

We must unite against the Canuck threat, lest we be subjected to their beer.