September 2nd, 2011
In a study published Sept. 1 in Nature, Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have found substances in the blood of old mice that makes young brains act older. These substances, whose levels rise with increasing age, appear to inhibit the brain’s ability to produce new nerve cells critical to memory and learning.
So now it’s scientifically ok to leech off of younger brighter talent. I can already see hordes of elderly roaming the streets with syringes. Siblings bloodying each other in front of grandma just to get some extra pocket money. Factories of children with tubes coming from them. Young Bloodplasma is now the leading rapper. Third world countries rise up. Blood is the new gold.
via http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2011/august/aging-brain.html
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June 28th, 2011
For any particular skill, incompetent people will:
- 1. overestimate their own level of skill
- 2. fail to recognize genuine skill in others
- 3. fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy
- 4. recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill, if they can be trained to substantially improve
And there’s actual proof: http://mastercodeprofessional.com/library_files/Kruger-Dunning—Unskilled_and_Unaware_of_It_(2009).pdf
via: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/jun/28/1
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June 17th, 2011
http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec
“I chatted with some girl’s boyfriend and told him that I would never fuck him again. He said “no problem, I understand ” wtf.”
“Ordered a large pack of condoms for an elderly woman on Amazon.”
“Envelope yourself in the sickening realization that you secretly love fucking someone’s Facebook life beyond repair. Admit it”
“We already hacked your twitter account, we just tweeted from it asking ourselves to hack it to create classic hipster irony.”
Hacking for the hell of it… With a nice twist of irony. Seems like their followers still don’t get the whole privacy message. Giving up their own anonymity by tweeting from their personal twitters about the committed cybercrimes with the hacked accounts and passwords.
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May 6th, 2011
Braben has developed a tiny USB stick PC that has an HDMI port on one end and a USB port on the other. You plug it into an HDMI socket and then connect a keyboard via the USB port, giving you a fully functioning machine running a version of Linux. The cost? $25.
That means it will handle web browsing, run office applications, and give the user a fully functional computer to play with as soon as it’s plugged in. All that and it can be carried in your pocket or on a key chain.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/06/122233/A-25-PC-On-a-USB-Stick
Don’t you just hate it when someone with actual technical know-how runs off with ideas you haven’t even thought out?
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February 9th, 2011
http://blog.shamsports.com/2011/02/mike-hall-wants-you-to-know-that-things.html
In a series of tweets, Mike Hall forcefully challenged the notion, offering perspective on quite what the supposed easy street of Europe truly encompassed. And then from there, he snowballs into a rant about the NBA lifestyle, and those who live it. Here are those tweets for you now.
There’s a metaphor waiting to happen here about work, arrogance, wrong expectations and expats. If you replace ‘professional basketball’ here with any line of office work you’ll get an article by someone who’s either feeling highly threatened by expats or who’s about to go postal.
“Im done but please believe theres going to be a whole lotta unnecessary flagrant fouls this summer if you think ur taking our jobs in Europe.”
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January 3rd, 2011
- So sorry I can’t read your mind. *giggles*
- *hihi* Yes there’s no connectivity between our systems.
- Sadly I have only one internal processor. *giggles*
- *hihi* We need to free up budget so we can build an interface.
- We could also go online and cloud compute. *giggles* *hihi**giggles* *hihi*
- OMG STFU U MF NERDS!
..don’t sit next to a married IT couple.
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December 17th, 2010
Today’s annoyance level:1/5 Feel the Burn annoyance factor:5/5
Paying attention right now would suck every single Joule of energy out of me. Leaving me only two options; depression or jabbing a pen in my eye. Writing has now turned into a means for survival. If I stop and listen to this nonsense I’ll be facilitating my own burnout. My curiosity had better not get the best of me. Tempting me into paying attention. Curiosity is in love with knowledge. Love makes blind and the information they’re attempting to share with me is butt-ugly. Whatever is said in this presentation will never be used by anyone. My physical presence is needed not my mental. Hear but not listen. A simple task one would say.
If you click here you can actually read MORE»
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November 15th, 2010
If a video has “Crazy Japanese” or “WTF Japanese” as a tag it will probably be sent and linked all over the web(or any funny, nasty or disturbing adjectives in combination with ‘Japanese’). But what kind of Western clips would the Japanese forward to each other or link to?
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October 12th, 2010
An article about how to create a computer in Minecraft. The evolution of (nano) computing? Is it possible to run another program in this computer which is also a computer which runs a program in a computer?
And another computer learns from the internet:
A computer at Carnegie Mellon University is reading the internet and learning from it in much the same way that humans learn language and acquire knowledge, by soaking it all up and figuring it out in our heads. People’s brains work better some days than others, and eventually we will all run out of steam, but the creators of NELL, the Never Ending Language Learner, want it to run forever, getting better every day in every way, until it becomes the largest repository imaginable of all that’s e’er been thought or writ.
Now what would happen if you combine these two?
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