Thursday, March 29, 2007

Kathy Sierra and the limits of free speech

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I’ve always been against anonymity on the web because it facilitates impostors and because it emboldens people, and brings out the worst in ...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

The web is becoming a dictatorship of idiots

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The dumbing-down of America This NEWSWEEK article titled “ Invasion of the Web Amateurs ”, blasts the current trend of citizen experts, and ...
Sunday, March 18, 2007

British Airways upgrades a Corpse to first class

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Those whacky Brits In a news report that sounds like a Monty Python skit, this article notes that British Airways upgraded a dead passenger...

The revulsion response

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It's Revolting! I just got back from seeing the movie "300", a 90 minute gore-fest with all sorts of revusions, from deformed ...
Friday, March 16, 2007

The movie “300”: The real battle of Thermopylae

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Gates of Fire One of the finest books I’ve read in the past decade is David Pressfield’s “ Gates of Fire ”, the amazing story of the defense...
Thursday, March 15, 2007

The Mpemba effect and the Coriolis effect

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Rules of Thumb rule! The Dilbert Blog had a “ rule of thumb ” today that discussed the Coriolis effect today, and the allegation that water ...
Monday, March 12, 2007

Interspecies Breeding Photos

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Trading genes Interspecies breeding and genetic exchange is underway and becoming commonplace. First it was adding Shark genes to tomatoes t...
Sunday, March 11, 2007

Daylight Savings Ttime computer date crisis!

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Date problems on computers Computer people can be so weird. They are fully self-absorbed and for reasons that are not clear to me, computer ...

$3m paid on eBay for fake Kennedy assassin window?

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Window framed for $3m? eBay is the theives den, with thousands of fakes and frauds offered up every day. But every now and then we see somet...
Saturday, March 10, 2007

Funny presidents on coins

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This CNN article notes that the mint is planning to put the faces of all dead presidents on the new one dollar coins: "At the same tim...