March 2010
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“You’re like the guy in bad romantic movies whom accidentally say something...”
– ozamosi
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Jonathan Coulton - Re: Your Brains
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“The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is that vampires are allergic...”
– Richard Pryor
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“It appears that Glenn Beck has come up with his new sign off phrase. His “Good...”
– Jon Stewart
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“We should be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brain falls out.”
– Richard Dawkins
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“It’s weird enough living in a country where a man can legally own an arsenal of...”
– Matt Taibbi - Shorting America Rocks! - True/Slant
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“You might think that’s the alcohol talking but he says the EXACT same...”
– ozamosi, trying to unconfuse our new friend about me.
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The team Dr Paabo assembled to look at this bone, led by Johannes Krause, assumed it was either from an early modern human or a Neanderthal, both of whom once lived in the area. What they found shocked them. It was neither.
The new, as yet unnamed species—the first to be defined solely by its DNA—is unveiled in this week’s Nature.
The finger bone was found in strata dated to between 48,000 and...
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WatchJason Scott. That Awesome Time I Was Sued for Two Billion Dollars. DEFCON 17.
Jason Scott tells a gripping tale of how a bat shit insane person kept sending mock legal documents and all kinds of crazy things because he believed Jason Scott was in copyright violation of a book.
A book that the author had made freely available but then later announced to the Internet at large that it was no longer...
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“Last year was the first in Europe’s recorded history in which not one person was...”
– Banyan: A matter of life and death. The Economist.
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When is a string, not a string? When it’s a duck - @rem
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Daniel: btw my agilent stock is up 61.77% from what I paid for it
Daniel: really entertaining
Kit: Wait wait
Daniel: that's $973.81 of just gain
Daniel: from that stock
Kit: You have stock in the company that pays you to do nothing?
Daniel: yup
Daniel: its beautiful how that works
Kit: I'm at a loss for words.
Kit: Congrats I suppose.
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When the guru’s initial efforts failed, he accused Mr Edamaruku of praying to gods to protect him. “No, I’m an atheist,” came the response. The holy man then said he needed to conduct a ritual that could only be done at night, outdoors, and after he had slept with a woman, drunk alcohol and rubbed himself in ash.
The men agreed to go to an outdoor studio that night — all to no avail. At midnight,...
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In the pilot scheme the bond will raise up to £5m ($7.5m) to finance various private-sector organisations to work closely for six years with 3,000 short-term prisoners jailed in Peterborough, both inside prison and after their release, to help them resettle into the community. At present, prisoners like these have a tendency to reoffend and end up back in jail, costing government and society a...
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borste: one of the organizations I'm a member of is running for Linköpings municipal election.
ozamosi: borste: NSF?
borste: lol, no, Linköpings socialistförening
ozamosi: I understand why linköpings socialistförening is running in linköping, but it's not entirely clear why a Gothenburger is a member of it.
Kit: Hahahaha, my thoughts exactly.
borste: Linköpings socialistförening are a suborganization of the Socialists
borste: ...that also are in the run with Västerviks Socialistförening and Kindas Socialistförening :P
Kit: borste are you winning any seats in municipal elections anywhere?
borste: They've got one spot in västervik :P
borste: which is taken by the 23 year old "party leader"
Kit: I was going to write something about communism leading to them stealing babies and educating them in group think but then I realized that's a good thing.
Kit: Then you don't have to worry about catching something just because you aren't using birth control.
ozamosi: I.. eeeeeh
ozamosi: You know..
ozamosi: Your brain works in odd ways.
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@pbakaus points out that Number.MAX_VALUE is close to infinity, but not too close.
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Each speaker gets five minutes to explain their research, with a human metronome banging a waste bin with a big stick after every minute. After five minutes, an eight-year old girl (last night, actually two twins) walks across the stage and says “Please Stop, I’m Bored” and repeats it until the speaker does indeed stop.
Ian Mansfield. The Night the IgNobel Awards Came to London. (via Simon...
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WatchTom Eston and Kevin Johnson. Social Zombies: Your Friends Want To Eat Your Brains. DEFCON 17.
The talk lays out how someone would get at your information on social networks and why, while giving concrete examples. The speakers also stresses the dangerof allowing developers to run unvalidated third party applications that they can change at any time through social networks like Facebook.
I found...
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This is because parseInt accepts a second argument for radix. If it is not supplied and the string starts with a 0 it will be parsed as an octal number. Riiiiiiight, of COURSE.
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It is estimated that 15-20% of gay men in America marry heterosexual women. But Liu Dalin, a pioneering sexologist now retired from the University of Shanghai, has put the share in China at 90%.
[Wifes to gays] typically have little sexual experience before marriage, and little knowledge of homosexuality.
China has no powerful gay lobby. But Mrs Li has used her reputation to campaign for same-sex...
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Some argue this makes sense. Some ppl also like to sniff glue.
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Tom_Ass: Programming in World of Warcraft, 7.5 hp
Tom_Ass: Nice summers course..
Tom_Ass: all WoWers gets a reason to do school work all of the sudden :)
ozamosi: …wait…
ozamosi: Does that mean you can be a wow-tard and get uni-credits for it?
ozamosi: Could you check if there's a course on irc or slacking?
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“A lot of people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– The Economist
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As we know, one man once got on one plane in a pair of exploding hiking boots and as a result everyone else in the entire world is now forced to strip naked at airports and hand over their toiletries to a man in a high-visibility jacket.
Then we have calls to ban sexually provocative pop videos from the television until 9pm and put Loaded magazine on the top shelf. Will this prevent teenage boys...
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Of course, people can sidestep the harvesting process entirely by spending real money to purchase in-game items. This is the major source of revenue for Zynga, the company that produces Farmville. Zynga is currently on pace to make over three hundred million dollars in revenue this year, largely off of in-game micro-transactions. Clearly, even people who play Farmville want to avoid...
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“They all want to become vets until they’re actually practicing operating...”
– Belgian girl explains Belgian girls
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