November 2008
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Yudkowsky - Bayes' Theorem →
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“Some time ago I received a call from a colleague. He was about to give a student...”
– Some questions have many answers
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“i have no snark for the kicker.”
– i never capitalize , allow me to explain what it is like to work in a “fabless semiconductor company”; or, why i would go postal and kill everyone
Nov 25th
“But as corporations were taken over by a caste who never made a product or...”
– Contrary Brin: Soros Examines the Causes.
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Fifty People, One Question: New York on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
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Things - Will Schenk Lazzzored a Dodecahedron on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Nov 24th
“You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 % Average score for this...”
– Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better? Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams. Civic Literacy Report - ...
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Through the ages a lot of interesting (and some obscure) programming languages have entertained and confused people. At JAOO Aarhus 2008 Guy L. Steele and Richard P. Gabriel gave a presentation about languages and language constructs in a presentation that is a work of art in itself. In the presentation called “50 in 50″ you can see Guy Steele rap about APL and later in the video about spelling...
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“When Sharon first heard the rumor that Frank had left her for a young homosexual...”
– Esquire’s 70 Greatest Sentences - Esquire
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Speeding Up Rails Development | Ruby on Rails →
Nov 17th
“Pirates who hijacked a crude oil tanker off the coast of Kenya are approaching a...”
– Pirates take ‘super tanker’ towards Somalia - CNN.com
Nov 17th
Battle of the CSS Frameworks | Capsize Designs →
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On Growth and Form and Constructal Theory |... →
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“Even if growth in global demand was at zero for the next 22 years, in order to...”
– Fatih Birol, author of the IEA’s World Energy Outlook which published today. (via dihard)
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Gnarls Barkley
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The End of Wall Street's Boom →
Nov 12th
play/type blog. Workling 0.4.1 is out, now with... →
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InstallationHowto - tcerl - Google Code -... →
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Setting up Disco — Disco v0.1.2 documentation →
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“In the coming months, when sunlight disappears entirely in the northern plains,...”
– Mars Lander Succumbs to Winter - NYTimes.com
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“It has this Lazarus mode that will bring it back to life if it dies. That...”
–  Interview @MarsPhoenix, or, who writes the twitter posts for the mars rover which first let the world know that there’s water on mars and thus we’ll be able to move there someday and maybe humanity will make it after all.
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Get Your War On: New World Order - 236.com - Video
Nov 7th
How To Quickly Set Up Ubuntu 8.04 loaded with... →
Nov 7th
Exclusive MP3: Tom Waits and Kronos Quartet,... →
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MTV MUSIC - Gnarls Barkley - Who’s Gonna Save My Soul
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“I had brought with me field guides to the fauna and flora, all published in the...”
– A Conversation With Stuart L. Pimm - Zoologist Stuart Pimm Asks, ‘Why Do Species Go Extinct?’ - Interview - NYTimes.com
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