Yay! it is happening!

Fab@Home -- a wiki on how to make your own fabricators/replicators/3D printers/rapid prototypers, or whatever you want to call them.

The next big revolution in human history is beginning at last -- the democratisation of the means of production.

Just imagine how young kids will use such machines to experiment with making robots, sculptures, and machines nobody has yet ever thought of.

Why do people need to deny others' validity?

I was talking to a lovely woman a while back. She was smart and gentle and utterly devoted to her dogs. I don't remember how the subject got onto parenting, but she was very firm that a family requires a father and a mother.

I pointed out that there are plenty of bad families that have the traditional family structure, but that many single parent families do really well, also that I've known some gay male couples and lesbian couples who've brought up kids brilliantly. I suggested that it is surely the quality of parenting that is important, and not the gender.

She was adamant that those are not families and can never do the job that a hetero couple can, so can never bring up a child properly. In the end, puzzled, I decided to let it lie as I could sense a dark, xenophobia under her inability to admit to what I've seen out here in the real world.

How sad. Why would an otherwise good person be so utterly closed-minded and dismissive of others like that?

upside down

Huh!

While programming a virtual world I just noticed that up is dn turned upside down. :)

Some oldies I like are:
now + here = nowhere
and
live is evil reversed.

Meaningless fun.