Years of Poems and Spirits

Just read the latest news: Reading hidden intentions in the human brain

If this discovery comes to fruition, it has to be a very disruptive outcome: if not in our daily life, at least in our perception of individual-society relations. I have to say I was never distressed by any technology before, until now that is.

There has always been some buffer between what is rational and what is private. Cognitive dissonance used to be the only link (albeit a Möbius-strip type of link) between the two spheres. Now the strip is broken and being flattened out. I can’t even describe how I feel right now: scared, upset, bewildered, excited, agitated …

Earlier I was looking for the spelling of Aegis on Google. Instead, I found this guy, JP Brown, who built a Lego “Aegis” system that can shoo away squirrels from his wife’s flower bed. There are more goodies on his site.

There is video of how his lego-botics work. E.g.

Totally fascinating!

All the following copied from a blog posting on 季庄新闻:

哇塞, 好不容易, 今天终于把紫光搞定了!!!
以下是我的步骤. 按提示如有必要需重新启动(也可能需要Windows安装软盘):
1. Download紫光;
2. 下载以后的文件需要扩展. 选择c:\temp, 安装软件就会被扩展到那里;
3. 打开c:\temp, 运行unispim30.msi
4. 安装. 安装过程中视窗的中文我没有看到, 试着猜过去:)
5. 打开Control Panel, 选择Regional and Language Options;
6. 单击Advanced tab, 在下落单子里选择Chinese (PRC);
7. 有可能需重新启动;
8. 打开Control Panel, 选择Regional and Language Options;
9. 单击Language tab, 单击Details. 你会看到Text Services and Input Languages 窗口. 按需要选择语言. 紫光是Chinese (PRC)后头跟着模糊的乱码;
10. 在Text Services and Input Languages 窗口, 单击Advanced tab, 在Extend support of advanced text service to all programs上打勾;
11. 你应当可以输入中文了. 用Alt + Shift来切换中英文. 输入中文时, 你可能需要打一些英文字母, 象我现在输入这一段文字:) 按一下Shift, 你就可以输入英文. 再按一下, 就可输入中文.