This is really cool. There's a fun GIF-roulette aspect to it. Click to select a random next one.I found every animated GIF on Wikipedia... then made a site where you can browse them, one-by-one.

via jwz

There's this idea that sexism (in the traditional direction of the term: men are superior to women) largely hurts women, but it causes issues for men too. There's a TED talk about the "Man box": acceptable activities for men are limited by what is manly. Here's an example about
how sexism hurt laptop adoption.
Though Hawkins doesn't quite say it ( Read more... )

I never understood what hash salting was until I read this. A really good article which explores all the angles on making a basically secure web-app, with a lot of examples.
So the lessons for developers:

1. Password storage should always be done using a strong hashing algorithm. IT should be one designed for password storage and also use a ( Read more... )

It's amazing to think about the inspiring heights NASA has reached, the complicated problems they have solved, and the edge-of-seat hanging feeling they still give you with descriptions of the real things they are doing. I would love, one day, to go to space and another planet, so long as it didn't mean saying goodbye forever to my friends and ( Read more... )

This is incredible. Robots that work as a team to accomplish a goal in a relatively free-form environment.

via Pharyngula

It really seems like, soon, all humans are going to have left over computers is creativity. Would that be enough when a robot can spot what a human is doing and beat it 100% of the time (in this case at Rock Paper Scissors)?

via jwz

This has been an ongoing question for a while: why are some genomes huge (hundreds of billions), and others small (hundreds of thousands)? (Humans are toward the upper range at ~3 billion.)

According to Dr. Gregory's theory, having extra DNA generates a certain level of metabolic baggage. Weight scales as base pairs, and organisms with larger ( Read more... )

Here's a great compilation of images demonstrating some patronizing and disempowering portrayals of women. Also check out some of the even more ridiculous galleries linked in that one: women laughing alone with salads, and women struggling to drink water.

Also, this is already going around the internet in many forms: Rebuttal to a terrible NY ( Read more... )

Introduction to Objectivist C

• In Objectivist-C, an object - every object - is an end in itself, not a means to the ends of others. It must live for its own sake, neither sacrificing itself to others nor sacrificing others to itself.
• In Objectivist-C, there are only two colors:[code snipped demonstrating they are black and white]
• In Objectivist-C, ( Read more... )

Michael Geist column on CRTC and television subscription packagesWouldn't it be nice to a have a government body enforcing your all-or-nothing product packages? Then, the only way people can get a small amount of content is by paying for everything ( Read more... )