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March 27, 2009
The Pope wants no condoms
Category: Prime Stream
The Pope has said while in Africa that condoms may increase AIDS problems. What? He is so insulated from science that even the most basic application of science to our problems eludes his comprehension. Who the fuck advises the Pope?...
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Where you Johnny-little-guy can beat Google
Category: Creative commons
Business that requires direct customer service, that's where. If the post's heading attracted you, you should give this HN thread about Google Checkout woes a read. As many on the thread point out, there is a upper bound you hit...
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March 26, 2009
Great User Interface Hacks
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It's TED day at this blog. Here are two videos I watched lately. Viva la User Interface revolution! Johnny Lee's Wii Hacks at TED Pranav Mistry's Sixth Sense...
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Announcements: TEDIndia, iAccelerator 2009 at IIM-A
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TEDIndia Conference: "The Future Beckons" has been announced. It will take place November 4-7, 2009, in Mysore, India. More here. iAccelerator 2009 startup incubator at IIM Ahmedabad is now accepting applications. They help first time technology entrepreneurs. Go here and...
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March 23, 2009
Where there is nothing
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Where there is nothing, there is no thing as there. That's the usual response to 'what's outside the universe'. Evidently, this stands at the very edge of meaning: meaning in the scientific sense, meaning derived from being able to observe...
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March 20, 2009
The Baa-Vinci Project
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Ladies and lads, Extreme Sheep LED Art, a.k.a Welsh herd hacking and The Baa-Vinci Project. via...
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March 19, 2009
Quintilian on Style
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1. grandeur, not excess 2. sublimity, not harshness 3. strength, not rashness 4. severity, not grimness 5. gravity, not dullness 6. joy, not abandon 7. pleasantness, not decadence 8. greatness, not pomposity I like 1, 6 and 8. They make...
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March 13, 2009
Twenty years ago this month
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Twenty years ago this month, something happened at CERN that would change the world forever: Tim Berners-Lee handed a document to his supervisor Mike Sendall entitled "Information Management : a Proposal". "Vague, but exciting" is how Mike described it,...
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March 5, 2009
Bioware wishlist
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Here's a list of things I want to be able to buy in the near future: Better eyes. Check this news at beebs on a man with bionic eyes. I am very hopeful. Spectacles suck, contact lenses suck. I want...
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