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The opposition will congregate in dark corners.
They will whisper with their mouths, while their eyes will scan the room for spies wearing strange spectacles.
The spies will likely be men. How many women would really like to waft down the street wearing Google Glass?
It won’t be easy. Once you’ve been cybernated, there’s no turning back. Which is why the refuseniks are already meeting in shaded corners of the Web.
One site is called “Stop The Cyborgs.” It claims to be “fighting the algorithmic future one bit at a time.”
It’s going to take a lot of bitty fighting, but the people behind this site — they’re naturally anonymous, in an attempt to stop Google spying on them — say they’re fighting Google Glass in particular.
They say that it will herald a world in which “privacy is impossible and corporate control total.”
Some would say that, thanks to Googlies and other bright, deluded sparks, we’re there already. The Lord and Master Zuckerberg explained to us a long time ago that he knows us better than we do and that we don’t actually want privacy at all. Really?
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Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57574607-93/google-glass-the-opposition-grows/
Microsoft may boldly go where no one has gone before.
At a demonstration in China on Oct. 25, Microsoft’s chief research officer Rick Rashid revealed a new technology seemingly straight out of Star Trek. In the classic sci-fi television show, a gadget known as the “universal translator” (seen here) was used to decipher languages in the 22nd century. And now, Microsoft has created a program that takes spoken English and translates it to spoken Chinese in realtime.
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If we all had a universal translator at the ready, you wouldn’t have to type the message into a computerized translator, trying to figure out which language was spoken!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/09/microsoft-voice-translator_n_2102158.html?ir=Technology
Will Scotty’s ashes finally make it to space?
Before he died in 2005, at the age of 85, James Doohan requested that his ashes be taken into space. In 2007 a capsule containing them reached suborbital space for several minutes, but the ashes were lost for three weeks after landing in the New Mexico desert.
The following year SpaceX attempted to send a portion of them into orbit but the rocket exploded, plunged into the Pacific Ocean, and was lost.
His remains will be among those of 308 people on board a rocket being launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida by SpaceX, a company run by South African-born billionaire Elon Musk.
The mission is also the first organized by a private firm to the International Space Station, and it will deliver a “grocery run” of 1,000 lbs. of food and clothing to astronauts there.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/star-trek/9280413/Scotty-from-Star-Treks-ashes-to-be-blasted-into-space.html
A Klingon Christmas Carol has something of a cult following; among the audience members on opening night were a dedicated few dressed to the teeth in full Klingon costume, including ridged forehead prosthetics. Commedia Beauregard’s stated mission is “to translate the universal human experience to the stage: to expand our horizons and share knowledge of all cultures, translating between languages and between arts to create theater that is beautiful in expression.” In pursuit of that mission, they once again bring the self-described “only full-length play ever produced completely in the Klingon language (tlhIngan Hol) from the Star Trek movies and TV shows,” to the stage.
KCC is an adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol translated into a language that only a handful of diehard Trekkies speak, performed in all seriousness by trained actors who have committed the Klingon transcript to memory, with English supertitles for those who don’t speak tlhIngan Hol. It holds up surprisingly well; the storyline is easy to follow, and the actors imbue their characters with a Dickensian energy infused with a healthy dose of bloodlust.
As the narrator of the classic tale, Sara Wolfson leads the audience through the familiar story of Scrooge (or SQuja’ in Klingon, played by Kevin Alves), on what is known as the “Feast of the Long Night Song” (Klingons have no god or Christ), his assistant Bob Crachit (QachIt, played by Kai Young), and the spirits who visit him over the course of one night: Chris Lysy as Jacob Marley (marlI); Zack Livingston as the Ghost of Christmas Past (Kahless Past); Philip Zimmermann as the Ghost of Christmas Present (Kahless Present); and Manuel Twillie, Jr. as the Ghost of Christmas Yet-To-Come (Kahless Yet-To-Come).
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Klingon Christmas Carol continues through December 31st at Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln (map), with performances Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:30pm. Tickets are $32, and are available online here (check for half-price tickets at Goldstar.com). More information at cbtheatre.org. (Running time: play length, which includes one intermission)
Source: http://chicagotheaterbeat.com/2011/12/03/review-a-klingon-christmas-carol-cb-theatre/
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