December 2009
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“Fischhoff calls this phenomenon “creeping determinism”—the...”
– gladwell dot com - connecting the dots
The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia →
…and if that doesn’t eat up your whole afternoon, here are 50 more.
“TMZ says that during a phone conversation with a friend, Tiger said that his...”
– Tiger Woods is killing it.
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It was the 32-year-old’s second successful attempt to break into Buckingham Palace. On his first attempt, he scaled a drainpipe, briefly startling a housemaid who called security, but they decided not to act. Fagan entered through an unlocked window on the roof and spent the next half hour eating cheddar cheese and wandering around. He tripped several alarms, but they were faulty. He...
"It's like twitter. Except we charge people to use... →
classic.
“I believe when you can do this with multiple people, when you add more...”
– [Blog] Twitter updates, hackathons, YCombinator « think27
Barack Obama to send 34,000 more troops to... →
Change we can believe in!
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if you haven’t figured out the deal with your/you’re, we can’t be friends.
WatchI flew home for an early thanksgiving this weekend and snuck my sister home with me.
“best surprise ever.”
“But the other reason programmers are fussy, I think, is that evil begets...”
– Apple’s Mistake (via Instapaper)
“So I bought it, but I bought it, for the first time, with misgivings. I felt the...”
– Paul Graham on Apple
“For instance, suppose there’s a glass here. You might know about a glass. But...”
– Kenya Hara
Watchdavidhoffman:
(via maniacalrage)
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Charlie’s Dating Profile
One of those rare television episodes you can go back to and watch again. and again. and again.
“I didn’t believe in the theory that human beings—thinking, loving...”
– Sarah Palin. Yeaaahhhhh….so maybe you shouldn’t be in charge of anything…
“Yes, this is exactly what is happening. There’s a rounding-error bug in...”
– Motorola Droid camera autofocus fixed in secrecy? - Engadget
The Pirate Bay tracker shuts down for good →
In the fall of 2003, a group of friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker named ‘The Pirate Bay’. It soon became one of the largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet, coordinating the downloads of more than 25 million peers at its height.
Despite this success, The Pirate Bay operators today decided to pull the plug and close down the tracker permanently. The evolution of the...
“There’s only so much time in the day, and only so many days in our lives....”
– Marco.org: (via peterwknox)
“We’re all fighting for everyone’s attention. The internet has made...”
– .: What the fuck is going on?
“But I believe Apple is not just doing this to get advertising and an app store...”
– An article wherein it is explained why everything written so far about Apple’s iPhone launch in China is beside the point. « Ultimi Barbarorum
“In user interface design, programming language design, and ergonomics, the...”
– Principle of least astonishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The dirty little secret about simple: It’s actually hard to do. That’s why most...”
– How Chipotle, Pinkberry, and others win big by doing just a few things well - (37signals) (via hiten)
Today's Class: That's Too Bad
tommichael:
There have been a couple of times that I have wondered what the hell I’m doing here, and having a class of 30 Korean sixth graders yelling “I have Diarrhea” at me was definitely one of them.
That’s Too Bad, indeed.
My friend Tom is living in Korea teaching English to grade-schoolers. (If you’re wondering, he doesn’t speak Korean.) Instant comedy.
WatchHoly shit this is awesome. (via)
“Economics and politics confront the same fundamental problem: What everyone...”
– Thomas Sowell : The “Costs” of Medical Care: Part III
“Is the House bill better than nothing? I don’t think so. It simply throws more...”
– Marcia Angell (via azspot)
Dear Every Site That Paginates Articles
marco:
I’m sure you split stories like this into two pages for a good reason: to save my bandwidth. After all, the remaining 3,126 characters of the story’s body (1,530 bytes as transferred with gzip compression) would have increased the page’s total size by 0.0032%.
No, I’m just yanking your chain. I know you’re double-charging your advertisers for the same story by artificially inflating...
“I feel like I’ve made myself perfectly redundant.”
– Charlie Kelly
Always stay for one more drink. That’s when things happen. That’s when you find out everything you want to know.
“Godwin’s Law (also known as Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies) is a...”
– Godwin’s law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Millions of dollars are spent each year at conferences that people attend to be...”
– Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World . Ideas
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.... →
(via Instapaper)