We've fixed all the bugs. Now we just have to wait to deply the damn thing. So let's clear a few tabs from my browser.

Top Ten Myths about the brain  This article should be publicized on nation-wide TV! Especially the last one.  (hat tip :
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This cogent description of the problem with the Department of Internal Affairs censorship of New Zealand's internet feed

This article about Jack Vance and the Totality of his verbosity.

Styling your garage

"We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission,”

Last night I was sitting here thinking that I should probably empty all the dead insects out of the light shade in the lounge. The problem with these new-fangled long-life low-wattage bulbs is that you don't get to remove the shade as often as you would with normal bulbs, and thus the dead insect collection becomes massive long before the bulb ( Read more... )

Rather than curling up in bed and reading, I found myself curled up in my LazyBoy, browsing the web. In doing so I found a number of things that I at least hadn't come across before.

• FetLife - A Facebook/MySpace-type site run by kinky people, for kinky people.
• Open Fidelity (pdf) That's a cut down version of a new book discussing the concept of ( Read more... )

A new study has found that trained sexologists could infer a woman's history of vaginal orgasm by observing the way she walks. Further analysis revealed that the sum of stride length and vertebral rotation was greater for the vaginally orgasmic women.

• Disasters are getting worse
  Especially floods and storms. But it's not caused by global warming, it's primarily caused by stupid people moving into harm's way.
• The Death of ISOMicrosoft's actions in getting the ISO to approve OOXML have effectively killed ISO as an international standards organization. Several countries have questioned the ( Read more... )

• Autonomous black helicopters?
  Well no, actually they're red! But it's certainly impressive, as anyone who has ever tried to pilot a remote helicopter would know! Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters ( Read more... )

There's an intersting article on ridiculously lavish (and quite geeky) home theatres. It makes me think what one might be able to do with the downstairs "play room ( Read more... )

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  "Pill" Causes Divorce and Damages Our Evolution?Basically, human females are sexually attracted by smell to genetically different males. When they start taking the pill, female's sexual preferences change to more genetically similar males thus reducing our genetic variation. Also, it's reportedly well known among marriage counsellors that one of ( Read more... )

I may play with this guide on making Ubuntu Hardy Heron look and act like Mac OSX Leopard, because it sounds much easier than actually installing OSX. :)

Digg also found this really cute little collection of sysadmin tricks from IBM, including how to tunnel SSH thru a company firewall, and then tunnel VNC thru SSH... *grins evilly*

Purdue has ( Read more... )