After one month of using it, I’m very happy to confirm that SpamBayes (via the ThunderBayes plug-in for Thunderbird) is absolutely as awesome as I’d heard it could be! The scoring is so accurate that I decided a while back to let it automatically delete messages with 100% spam probability as read, so that I …
…because he was protected by the DVD in his pocket. Maybe we’ve finally found a good use for all the “Waterworld” DVDs that were made. 😉
Joel Spolsky has an interesting article in February’s Inc. Magazine (readable online here). It might explain something I’ve never been able to figure out: why no one else seems to be seriously pursuing Project X, even though the idea behind it is hundreds of years old.
Wow… don’t mess with Germans, their idea of a vacation sounds pretty harsh. Though I suppose it’s arguably better than being locked up in a US jail. UPDATE: Really harsh.
Science meets science fiction, and people benefit, once again. 🙂
Someone actually purchased the movie rights to John Dies At The End. In case you hadn’t run across it yet, John Dies At The End (JDatE) is a “ridiculous horror novel” from David Wong, the mind that brought you the Pointless Waste of Time website (and is now an editor at Cracked Magazine). Un-frickin’-believable. To …
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Interesting, but do we really need more garbage floating around in Earth orbit?
Tomorrow night, 10:01pm US Eastern time, a total lunar eclipse begins. Don’t miss it, it’s the last one for nearly three years.
An amusing look at the trustworthiness of your memories, perception, and other facets of your brain.
This page made me think… not so much about the movies mentioned (I’ve never seen most of them, and don’t care to), but about how fiction can teach us the more important things about life better than reality can, in some cases. I learned much of what I know about people and their relationships from …