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9/2/2010 9:01 PM
Stranded whale in WA killed with explosives | News.com.au

9/2/2010 8:48 PM
Bedbugs Are Spreading Via Google Now

8/13/2010 2:18 PM
Launching the Debugger Automatically

Debug a process from startup.

8/4/2010 7:31 AM
New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say | AdGrok

7/29/2010 9:16 AM
.Net Dust: How To Configure AllMargins Extension For Visual Studio 2010

7/28/2010 10:21 PM
Life without language « Neuroanthropology

7/16/2010 7:50 AM
Marginal Revolution: Is Creativity Declining?

"Those who came up with more good ideas on Torrance’s tasks grew up to be entrepreneurs, inventors, college presidents, authors, doctors, diplomats, and software developers."

7/15/2010 9:34 PM
Disease and intelligence: Mens sana in corpore sano | The Economist

If Mr Eppig is right, the near-abolition of serious infections in these countries, by vaccination, clean water and proper sewerage, may explain much if not all of the Flynn effect.

7/13/2010 7:44 AM
'Double Rainbow' Guy Paul 'Yosemite Bear' Vasquez Was Sober ... This Time - ABC News

"I'm a pretty happy guy," Vasquez admits. "I mean, there's some other videos on my YouTube page where I was a little high, but not that one."

7/11/2010 8:59 PM
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How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

6/22/2010 3:12 PM
Daniel Klein: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? - WSJ.com

Zogby researcher Zeljka Buturovic and I considered the 4,835 respondents' (all American adults) answers to eight survey questions about basic economics. We also asked the respondents about their political leanings: progressive/very liberal; liberal; moderate; conservative; very conservative; and libertarian.

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In this case, percentage of conservatives answering incorrectly was 22.3%, very conservatives 17.6% and libertarians 15.7%. But the percentage of progressive/very liberals answering incorrectly was 67.6% and liberals 60.1%. The pattern was not an anomaly.

6/21/2010 11:14 AM
The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1)

The surveillance tapes were key to his arrest.  There he is with a gun, standing in front of a teller demanding money.  Yet, when arrested, Wheeler was completely disbelieving.  “But I wore the juice,” he said.  Apparently, he was under the deeply misguided impression that rubbing one’s face with lemon juice rendered it invisible to video cameras.

6/17/2010 8:59 PM
Pigdog Journal (Mr. Bad's List) -- Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument

39. This is all covered in Knuth, and we don't have time to go over it again.

5/18/2010 9:54 PM
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High Scalability - High Scalability - 7 Lessons Learned While Building Reddit to 270 Million Page Views a Month

5/18/2010 9:42 PM
Team readies for 520-day simulated Mars trip - Space- msnbc.com

MOSCOW - Six men from Russia, Europe and China are preparing to spend 520 days together in a sealed-off warren to take a simulated trip to Mars to test how long isolation would affect humans.

5/17/2010 12:18 PM
Israel Roiled After Chomsky Barred From West Bank - NYTimes.com

"Late last month, Ivan Prado, one of Spain’s most famous clowns, spent six hours at Ben-Gurion airport in Tel Aviv being questioned by security agents before being sent back to Madrid. He had planned to run a clown festival modeled after one in Spain in the West Bank city of Ramallah but was accused of having ties with Palestinian terrorist groups by the Israelis."

5/17/2010 9:25 AM
Herzog vs. Kinski, with Fitzcarraldo stories

Towards the end of shooting, the Indians offered to kill Kinski for me. They said: “Shall we kill him for you?” And I said: “No, for God’s sake! I still need him for shooting. Leave him to me!”

I declined, at the time, but they were dead serious. They would have killed him, undoubtedly, if I had wanted it. I at once regretted that I held the Indians back from their purpose.”
-Werner Herzog, via his documentary My Best Fiend (1999)

5/12/2010 10:09 AM
13 Things that Saved Apollo 13 | Universe Today



"It was 9:08 pm, and I looked at the console because it flickered a few times and then I saw a master alarm come on," Woodfill said, talking from his office at JSC where he has worked for almost 45 years. "Initially I thought something was wrong with the alarm system or the instrumentation, but then I heard Jack Swigert in my headset: "Houston, we've had a problem," and then a few moments later, Jim Lovell said the same thing."

4/29/2010 3:23 PM
Dangerous Minds | Super-extreme fasting with Prahlad Jani



"Mr Jani is regarded as a breatharian who can live on a ‘spiritual life-force’ alone. He believes he is sustained by a goddess who pours an ‘elixir’ through a hole in his palate."

4/26/2010 7:26 PM
Ghost Army Haunts Michigan Library



"We had one occasion in France where a fellow decided his tank would look better on the other side of the road, it would be a more natural place for it. So these four guys pick up this tank and go walking across the road with it. And there was a Frenchman coming down the road that sees it, and he thought he was hallucinating to see four men pick up a tank."