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You are trying to decide what policy best helps the environment, or how to improve the lot of the poor, or maybe you just need to know how to vote in the primaries.
Let’s have a look at the field: the right is too religious, war-mongering, corporatist and at times overly naive. The […]
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I have just finished v0.1 of Gargoyle (yes, it’s a Snow Crash reference).
Gargoyle is a python application that periodically queries your location via GPS and then checks to see whether you are withn range of an item on your watch list. It is written to run on Maemo devices such as the […]
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I’m just wondering why you can only make appointments at places by phone rather than email.
When you email them (if they have one posted) they might deign to reply with availability but request you call them.
Do they think that a phone is safer in regards to identity? or are they just afraid […]
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Other good ones are nigger, kike, spic, wop, chink, gook, what have ya.
Still reading? Good. Words carry meaning, they carrry feelings and intentions. And sometimes they are meant in an aggressive manner, sometimes they’re meant to hurt you. However, unlike a bullet, a fist, or a blade, they can’t really stop you […]
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In the early 20th century London was full of electric busses that soon went away, displaced by internal combustion machines. Why did they go away?
The Economist has a great article telling the story:
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Whether the fraud was truly a tipping point for electric vehicles is, of course, impossible to say. But it is […]
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The best explanation of what the Higgs Boson is, what it means to science, and generally talking about particle physics in a widely accessible way thot I have ever read:
The Higgs boson..the “God Particle” (ick…sorry Leon). The Holy Grail of particle physics. (Um, also there’s that dark matter stuff but who knows […]
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Apparently, Yamaha has been developing a new MIDI instrument called the Tenori-On.
Here’s an overall demo video that shows many of the awesome functions of this device:
Now, it’s finally commercially available. one sold on ebay just recently for $1202 or so. Guess what I want for $gift_giving_holiday?
Here’s the music video for Simian Mobile […]
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The most compelling fiction, science or otherwise, often depicts a breakdown of society. Here’s a list of 50 dystopian movies some of which are actually good! My personal favorites are Equilibrium, A Scanner Darkly, Akira and Dark City. Some other movies on the list are also quite good, but don’t deserve a […]
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While I slowly write more abstract and long posts, I decided I can have smaller posts with links and reccomendations and such. This is the first, we’ll see if the habit sticks.
A post on one of my favourite computer scince blogs about speeding up integer arithmetic using fractals should show you they’re […]
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