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Besides the humorous and enlightening marketing lesson, this article points out a mental quirk of our species: the reward you get from something isn’t as important to your happiness as the amount of effort you had to put into getting it. I have perfectly sound and logical business reasons for always tackling the hardest programming …
Nothing I can really add to this. Everything from Scooby Doo to hard science fiction has played with the idea of a way to talk with animals… though I’ve always wondered just what they’d have to say that would be so interesting.
I recently stumbled across a very funny parody site called The Content Farm. Extra funny if you’ve run across real content farms (they constantly steal Geek Drivel entries, so I see more than my fair share), but good even without that. (An as-yet-unidentified content farm, stealing and mangling one of Geek Drivel’s articles, has apparently …
Trash in low orbit is a real and growing problem. Japan’s idea is one of several solutions being explored; I’ve also heard (didn’t save the link, sorry) that the US is planning to try a ground-based laser. (When will our race learn to pick up after themselves? 😉 )
Wow, newspapers are really getting desperate. I just got another call from a newspaper telemarketer (yes, yet again). When I said that I still wasn’t interested in a newspaper, he asked where I got my news, so I told him from the Internet. So far, no different than every other time these guys have called. …
Hey, we were raised on video games. And we never stopped playin’ ’em. 🙂 (And happy World IPv6 Day!)
Finally, the killer app for robotics has been found! 😉
Neat stuff: “Translucent concrete, rubber glass, unwetable sand, suction cup tape, etc.” Stretch-sensing rubber, silver-plated nylon thread, and bendable wood too. Dr. Cal Meacham: (paging through mysterious catalog) A catherimine tube with an endiom complex of plus four. Joe Wilson: What’s that? Dr. Cal Meacham: I don’t know, but this outfit has ’em. — From …
I think I was nine or ten the first time I saw a Space Shuttle on TV. I believe it was one of the first landing tests, and I saw clips of it being carried up, piggy-back style, on a huge airplane, then detaching and gliding to a landing on its own. Even at that …
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Feeling particularly paranoid today? Have the time and inclination to read several hundred pages of information and instructions on locking down your computer systems? Well, you’re in luck. 😉 Apparently the NSA doesn’t like Ubuntu. They provide instructions for locking down Red Hat, but no other Linux distribution.