Here it is. Humorous and completely true at the same time. I’m tempted to print out a copy for a few of my relatives… (Via BoingBoing)
Archive of entries posted on August 2009
“Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop”
Neat information.
The Joys (?) of a New Computer
I have a love/hate relationship with upgrades. On the one hand, it’s exciting to have something new, especially since that something is almost always a major improvement over its predecessor. But on the other, it’s always a major pain to transfer all your data, reinstall all your software, and get used to the new quirks [...]
“The Jedi Logic”
An interesting and in-depth look at why the Jedi in the Star Wars universe might logically choose to use lightsabers instead of something with more range. It all comes down to the Jedi ability to predict the near future.
I hate it when that happens…
Late Tuesday night, I was playing an old game on my Dell laptop, and the machine froze up — nothing worked. It was the first time that had happened since the motherboard was replaced more than a year ago. Rebooting it led to strange errors, so I shut it down and went to bed. Wednesday [...]
“New Hampshire man snares rare, cobalt-blue lobster”
And I thought lobsters only looked weird after they’ve been cooked…
Computer use as a mental illness?
Another developer I work with sent me this link. Under that definition, I might qualify as mentally ill too, for the same reasons as the author of the article.
“Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom”
I really was born too late.
“Virus arms race primes malware numbers surge”
Computer security people have seen this coming for years. Signature-based detection of specific malware variants is less and less effective all the time; there’s no way antivirus programs can keep up anymore, and they’re just going to get further behind. Not to mention the ongoing problems with false positives. (I don’t even bother running an [...]
“Self-Enforcing Protocols”
Here’s something you’d probably never think of: [...] a self-enforcing protocol for determining property tax: the homeowner decides the value of the property and calculates the resultant tax, and the government can either accept the tax or buy the home for that price. Sounds unrealistic, but the Greek government implemented exactly that system for the [...]