*puts chin on hands, looks up and to the side*

This article on how fans verbalise differently to society's 'average' is absolutely fascinating. It's ten years old and more - I wonder if there's been any followup since then ( Read more... )

An interesting psychology experiment with potential applications for AI.Would YOU let the genie out of the bottle ( Read more... )

Random "this is me" post for anyone who's browsed here and wondering what the deal is and why I switch back and forth between topics so much ( Read more... )

Wireless HMD running Linux:

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Is it cruel to trawl general answer-providing websites looking for obvious cut-n-pasted poetry/prose homework questions with no effort put into any solution prior to dumping it on the site, and post in response beautifully crafted tracts which fulfil the original requirements - but which when decoded by an English teacher translate to "I asked the ( Read more... )

I think we all have some form of this list, even if it's just vague "pay off the debts, nice house, nice car, world cruise" thoughts which occasionally drift by when we pay the bills ( Read more... )

Right ( Read more... )

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Is it just me, or are most internet and paper references of 'modern' Australian slang actually about 20% accurate and 80% stuff which hasn't been heard in the wild since before your grandparents were knee-high to a duck ( Read more... )

Found the anime intro theme song on Youtube along with directly translated lyrics, and reworked them into English lyrics which actually matched the melody, along with keeping the English words which were part of the original song.

This does not mean that the result was necessarily anything like the English dub lyrics.

I've done this before, for ( Read more... )