Delays Creating SOFF Site

I have been rather delayed creating this site, when I first published this blog-post I was hoping to finish creating SOFF before the end of July 2013. Now, updating the post on 1st September 2013, it seems I was too hopeful. Midway through building this site I decided to create another site called Futuristic Reader, which is a simple site, it was almost complete when I initially composed this blog-post, but I became rather delayed because our world is incredibly depressing, from my viewpoint, thus the simplest of things is a struggle. Futuristic Reader was created to replace the demise of Google Reader.

All the stupid people constitute an almost unstoppable avalanche of insanity. Attempting to educate them is utterly agonising, exasperating.
— SINGULARITY UTOPIA (@2045singularity) September 1, 2013

Anyway regarding SOFF, I was close to finishing compiling all the content back in mid to late June 2013 (I had been writing the content off-line). The styling merely required fine but significant tuning for the best visual impression. I shall now during September October continue from where I paused.

On June 18th 2013 I sent a Tweet to Penn Jillette regarding the Famous Support page. I was hoping, not realistically, he would get the ball rolling, but nothing happened. It's such a hard, thankless task explaining the future, very depressing, not surprising I am delayed. Here is the Tweet to Jillette:

@pennjillette you love science and are Singularity-aware. So I wonder, could U give +quote to get this page started? http://t.co/6uYASyNPOh
— SINGULARITY UTOPIA ⎔ (@2045singularity) June 18, 2013

Here is a SOFF archive archive.is/I40lE (2nd Oct 2013), which I'll log here for my personal reference while I am making changes, designing the site.

Soylent Could Significantly Decrease Food Scarcity

Have you heard about a new food product called Soylent? Soylent is currently being developed via crowding-fund which very successfully raised 412% of the 100% target ($411,487 of $100,000 with 19 days remaining at the time of this blog-post).

The Soylent campaign site wrote (quote taken on 2nd June 2013): 

"For many people, on many occasions, food is a hassle, especially when trying to eat well. Suppose we had a default meal that was the nutritional equivalent of water: cheap, healthy, convenient and ubiquitous. Soylent will be personalized for different body types and customizable based on individual goals. It allows one to enjoy the health benefits of a well balanced diet with less effort and cost."

There are clearly ramifications here regarding cutting down on food waste, furthermore resources could significantly be saved because the creation of Soylent minimises farming and production costs. The food is a synthesised, streamlined, refined, distilled, ultra-potent form of food.

There could also be significant health benefits, which will impact upon our scarce lifespans by making illnesses less likely. Gawker.com wrote (29th May 2013): "Rheinhart rattled off the benefits he's noticed since switching almost exclusively to a diet of Soylent: improved concentration and strength, weight loss."

Apparently, according to Boing Boing, the Soylent project was hosted via CrowdHoster, which allows people to create Kickstarter-esque pages. CNET, the LA-Times, and Vice.com have all reported on Soylent. Vice wrote:

"Soylent contains all of the nutritive components of a balanced diet, but with just a third of the calories and none of the toxins or cancer-causing stuff you'd usually find waiting to kill you in your lunch. Despite the fact it looks a bit like vomit, Soylent supposedly has the potential to change the entire world's relationship with food, so I spoke to Rob to find out how."

Finally, here's a video:

Disqus Comments Static Pages

I am creating another blog before I finish this one. Thankfully the new blog is simpler than this one, the content will be purely piped feeds from various sources regarding futuristic technology. Anyway, thinking about creating the new blog made me remember a problem I had creating this blog, at first I couldn't implement Disqus comments on the static pages. Thankfully a found someone with a solution, which is really quite simple. To make Disqus comments appear on static Blogger pages you delete <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'> and </b:if> from the Disqus section of the template/layout.

Here is my Tweet about it:

@disqushelp solved now. Was quite simple. Within #Disqus code I deleted: <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'> and </b:if>
— SINGULARITY UTOPIA ⎔ (@2045singularity) April 25, 2013

I also need to try the code below on both blogs, or at least one of them, it should in theory make any links in Disqus comments open target="_blank" (a new tab/window).

<script>
$('.dsq-comment-text a').live('mouseover', function() {
$(this).attr('target', '_blank');
});
</script>

1979 Vs 2013 - BIG 250MB Vs 16GB MicroSD

This Tweet said it all, until the account was deleted, it highlighted how we do more for less with each passing year. The Tweet asked: "Where are we going? #Singularity." The Tweet included the image below, which I have embedded via imgur. The picture shows a massive 250MB hard drive (1979) versus a 16GB microSD card (2013). In addition to the size difference there is a massive price difference. I have no idea what the source of the image is, I have no idea who the original author is. Below are some additional links to the image, the image has been reposted by multiple people.

See also: https://plus.google.com/108531052526575991056/posts/ddPHpT5yDi5
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1biew0/data_storage_1979_vs_2013/
aiocharge https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=565470933487143
https://www.facebook.com/VanillaCow/posts/404535559645551
http://timesnewgeek.blogspot.com/2013/07/size-difference-of-computer-memory-1979.html
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/mind-blowing-size-difference-of-computer-memory-1979-vs-2013
http://themetapicture.com/media/cool-tech-evolution-storage-device.jpg