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i get it
via Bad Astronomy Blog by The Bad Astronomer on May 21, 2008
Man, I’m a geek, but this is actually funny.Understanding such things is as easy as pi. ‘e just goes to the root of the problem, cos it’s no sin. And if you don’t get it, well, secant you shall find.Tip o’ the HP-41CX to Digg.
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Starbucks Now Offering "Free" Wi-Fi [Starbucks]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on June 02, 2008
Coffee-chain giant Starbucks plans to roll out no-cost AT&T Wi-Fi access at most locations today—to customers who buy a minimum $5 Starbucks Card, register online, and use that card once a month. If that doesn't sound like a deal, you can always try a little user-agent-switching to net some free web with your latte. [via]
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Personality plagiarism rife on internet dating sites
via Mind Hacks by vaughan on February 18, 2008
When you present yourself to potential suitors in an online dating profile, you are, in the terminology of psychology, 'constructing the self'. Perhaps it's not surprising then, that the most attractive profiles are being ripped off and plagiarised by lazy daters wanting to freeload on the most creative members' personalities.The Wall Street Journal has an article which looks on...
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Wow - Stanford University will no longer charge tuition to students whose families earn < $100,000/year. Free Room & Board if < $60K/yr.
via reddit.com: what's new online by (author unknown) on February 19, 2008
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Another Look At The 'Does File Sharing Equal Stealing?' Question
via Techdirt by Michael Masnick on February 19, 2008
Jon Healy, whose writing for the LA Times I admire quite a bit, has written up a very balanced discussion concerning whether or not file sharing equals theft. He links to some of my writings on the subject, as well as pointing to the views of two Nobel Prize winning economists, F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman, who both point out that copyright is not property, and treating it as such causes...
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Figure Out If It's Malware at exeLibrary [Windows]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on February 20, 2008
Search engine exeLibrary demistifies the EXEs running in your Task Manager to help you get to the bottom of whether or not that cryptic process actually needs to be running (and whether or not it's malware). Just search any process when you're unclear of its purpose in exeLibrary, and it'll give you a detailed description of what the process generally does in return, including how to...
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What? Glen Calls Them Hot All the Time.
via Overheard in the Office by (author unknown) on February 28, 2008
Coworker #1, drinking with group: I've got two kids, a daughter and a son.Coworker #2: Oh, yeah? I didn't know that. Does Betty* have any kids?Coworker #3: No. Glen* has kids, though.Coworker #1: Who?Coworker #3: You know, Glen -- over there at the table across the room. He has two daughters. They came to the office a couple times. One's about 12, and the other's 15 or something...
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Pitchers and Hitters [The Frontal Cortex]
via ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed by Jonah Lehrer none@example.com on March 02, 2008
The Times has an interesting profile of Johan Santana, perhaps the most effective pitcher in baseball. What's interesting about Santana is that his secret isn't a 98 mph fastball or some wicked new breaking ball. Rather, he strikes out batters because he denies batters the perceptual cues they rely on when making batting decisions:Whether Santana fires a fastball that zooms in at 90 to 94...
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BREAKING: Martian avalanche caught in the act!
via Bad Astronomy Blog by The Bad Astronomer on March 02, 2008
This is TOTALLY HAWESOME: an avalanche on Mars was caught in the act by the HiRISE camera.This picture shows the billowing dust cloud from an avalanche of ice and dust along scarps — sheer cliffs — near the north pole of Mars. To give you a sense of scale, the cloud is about 180 meters across, and about the same distance from the base of the cliff.Holy cow.You can see the cliff in the middle...
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