Can the economist v.s. sociologist Hot or Not? web site be far behind? (pdf)
Here’s a dumb trick you can do with skype. Put a few 800 numbers into your contacts list; it’s best if the ones you put in have automated voice recognition. Then start a conference call and invite them all to talk to each other. Very silly.
I find it amusing that I can get an emulator for my Vectrex in universal binary format before Microsoft can re-release Microsoft Word to run native on the new Macs. Sad, my Vectrex 3D head set won’t work.
Darn! I missed this confrence. Come to the Waterfall 2006 conference and see how a sequential development process can benefit your next project. Learn how slow, deliberate handoffs (with signatures!) between groups can slow the rate of change on any project so that development teams have more time to spend on anticipating user needs through [...]
Paul Kedrosky’s blog is just amazing; the quality and quantity just mind boggling. In one of today’s many entries he find and passes along this marvelous 1932 rant about bloggers: His learning is but a “parade,” the “product of omnivorous folio-bolting and quarto-gulping, urged on and sustained by inordinate vanity”; his method naught but a [...]
I love the way given a heterogeneous audience a single bit of humor can be at once all kinds of humor. Fun Fact about Common Lisp: standard Common Lisp has no networking libraries at all, but it does have a built in function to print integers as Roman numerals — using either the new style [...]
The Pew Global Attitudes project asked “Suppose a young person who wanted to leave this country asked you to recommend where to go to lead a good life – what country would you rcommend?” Everybody is going to end up in Australia! But a lot of people will pass thru Canada on their way there.
Yes, but why do I think this is hilarious? In sum, Shamay-Tsoory and his/her colleagues propose a neural network for processing sarcastic utterances: * 1-The left hemisphere language cortices interpret the literal meaning of the utterance; * 2-The frontal lobes and right hemisphere process the intentional, social and emotional context, identifying the contradiction between the [...]
The VI reference mug, shown at right, is available here. The emacs reference place setting for twelve is not yet available.
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