August 2010
43 posts
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Sweet Talking Your Computer - WSJ.com →
Are you nice to your computer? Do you think that you empathize with specific computer ‘voices’ more than others? Did you hate Clippy? Well, if you did/do then you’re treating your computer as if it actually obeys the same social rules that people do, even especially when the computer isn’t.
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Feds Propose Letter Grades For Vehicle Efficiency... →
I like the idea of giving more information to people, but I really can’t see the point to some of the info they want to give us. Letter grades seem a bit… odd.
How do you make a Banshee? Block by block. →
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A Banshee made of LEGO! Quite awesome.
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Greeks 'discover Odysseus' palace in Ithaca,... →
Well now. This certainly helps. Though one should take this with a grain of salt so far. I’m always bemused by people who assume the ancients only invented fictional history.
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UPDATED: Modern Warfare 2 Player Attempting To... →
This is actually pretty cool. It would be an interesting challenge.
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N-Sider.com: Looking back at Metroid: The... →
And the third retrospective, this time covering Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. More combat, less backtracking, better key quests.
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Moisture farming is a go! →
Now you can join Luke Skywalker as a moisture farmer! Retailing now for only $1,500 CAD!
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Tweetage Wasteland : Pull Over Before You Read... →
Just because I could respond instantly, it doesn’t mean that I will, or that I want to. I too have texted while driving (also only while stopped) but he recognizes that the social stream really isn’t that important. Things can, should, and will wait. People need to get used to this idea that others are not at their beck and call.
All of this data can wait until later – and much of...
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N-Sider.com: Looking back at Metroid: Echoes from... →
The second in the Metroid Prime series retrospective. Insightful, focuses on the variables that shifted from the first one. I tend to agree with it.
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N-Sider.com: Looking back at Metroid: Prime target... →
A pretty good retrospective of Metroid Prime. Insightful and concise.
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Master Offers New Locks With Joystick-Like... →
Joystick powered padlocks! I need say nothing more.
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CBC News - World - 100-km Chinese traffic jam... →
And you thought you had it bad? This is why we should keep the transportation network working, which we’re not quite doing.
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Inkling - Interactive textbooks for iPad. →
I’m cautiously optimistic about this. I’ve not used it myself, and the description is full of hyperbole/buzwords, but if it really does work as advertised it can only be a good thing. I hope they get the publisher support they need in order to have a fair trial.
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SolarBeat →
This is quite awesome! A song played out by the orbits of the planets! Includes Pluto and Ceres!
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TK409 Got a Job as a Stormtrooper →
Don’t try this at home folks!
Your fears confirmed: "up to" broadband speeds are... →
You *are* getting stiffed on your internet speeds.
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Web Photo Geotags Can Reveal More Than You Wish -... →
Did you know? I sorta knew, but then I also don’t have any device that takes GPS/geotagging data and embeds it in my pictures. You might though. I would follow the link through to ICanStalkU.com so that you can disable this if you want.
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Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain :... →
In response to a claim by a computer scientist/transhumanist that we’ll be able to virtualize the brain in 10 years, a neuroscientist basically laughs at him. I tend to agree with the neuroscientist here.
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“In 2005, “Pineapple Bun” was nominated as a potential Pacific...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_bun
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Making a widget without 'get'ing it = wid
And wid means nothing. Yeah, trying to make an xml parsed widget isn’t working right now. All I want to be able to do it set up a dynamic xml string that displays what’s playing when the page is loaded. Rainwave even provides an xml file of what is playing too! The issue is that I have no idea what to do past that. I can read the XML myself, but to figure out how to write the code...
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4Chan Founder Moot's Weird Testimony In Sarah... →
Just an amusing snippet.
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Student Fees and the Regressive Athletics Tax →
I’ll wait for more info, but this doesn’t look like the best thing for student fees to be used for.
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Google-Verizon plan: Why you should worry - Dan... →
Bad, bad, bad! This Google/Verizon proposal is very bad news. On one level, I can see their point, but on the other, we just need more ‘fat pipes’ leading to our homes, and then none of the issues they mention will be a problem. We know we can do it, sooo many other nations have faster internet already, so why do we need a whole ‘new internet’ (oops, additional services,...
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BBC News - Manga to promote US-Japan military... →
This was just amusing.
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BBC News - Stop your child becoming a screen... →
While I agree that parents need to take a more direct role in monitoring and controlling their children’s electronics usage, some of the article is unintentionally amusing.
Signs for parents to watch out for include: tendonitis in wrists and neck pain, depression, mood swings, angry outbursts if interrupted or restricted, avoiding normal socialising and being active with other friends,...
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The Ghosts of World War II's Past (20 photos) - My... →
This is more than kinda awesome. It’s even a bit chilling to see the overlap. He did a good job with the blending.
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Are forums social networks?
A random thought today. Do forums count as a ‘social network’? I mean, they are sites where people spend a considerable amount of time in a social community, but is that enough to make them a social network? I would say they should be considered a social network, even before you take into consideration the fact that recent forum software versions have added social aspects such as...
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Mayor Bloomberg Stands Up For Mosque →
This is heartening. Good job.
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Capo - Reverse Engineering Rock and Roll →
This looks nifty. Not that I’m going to go off and get it now (no guitar) but this does look pretty cool. I wonder if there’s one for piano…
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The Acceleration of Addictiveness →
Not a good trend, but not tons we can do about it either.
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The Triceratops Never Existed, It Was Actually a... →
So yeah. Now one group of scientists claim that the marvelous Triceratops never existed. Not at all! What is this, the kill childhood science year? First pluto, now the Triceratops! We must make a stand—
…Wait, you mean science really works like this? Never mind then. Move along.
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Inside AT&T's National Disaster Recovery Batcave:... →
This is pretty interesting. Just how do you replicate essential equipment in a disaster area? For AT&T, you call in Optimus Prime, no wait. They’re not transformers, just large numbers of trailers.
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Halo 2600 by Ed Fries →
This is epic. Halo as it would have been on the Atari 2600! Quite hard, but also a fun nostalgia trip. I’d recommend it heartily.
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Microsoft Quashed Effort to Boost Online Privacy -... →
Lack of privacy is big business. Engineers have been trying to address the issue in many places, but there are those who really can’t afford to let us have any.
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Students finally wake up to Facebook privacy... →
It looks like we’re not all displaying everything to the world! Facebook privacy matters, and students are aware of this.
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