August 2010
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Moderate drinkers > Heavy drinkers > Nondrinkers →
Science says we should drink moderately instead of drinking heavily, or even not drinking at all. SEE?
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A Review of Wendy's
runt-of-the-web:
Check out the Wendy’s review at Google. Shit be real.
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Noy interviews Kris →
Hilarious!
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A Rubik's Cube can be solved in 20 moves or less →
Yep. All 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible positions. 20 moves. Why solve useless crap like this? BECAUSE WE CAN. (via Gizmodo)
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Palace: August 23 a regular working day →
“The purpose for observing Ninoy Aquino Day on August 21 instead of August 23 is to avoid the imposition of unnecessary financial burden upon the employers, ensure the continuity of government, business, and commercial transaction, promote productivity, while at the same time preserve the solemnity of the observance,” Lacierda said.
Right. I guess this sounds better than “RA 9492 was a...
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Yakuza review Yakuza 3 the game →
Real life Yakuza review a game based on their lives. Good read.
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Mathematics in Movies →
proofmathisbeautiful:
(via scipsy)
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Fill in the Blanks: Using Math to Turn Lo-Res... →
Compressed sensing, sparsity… this is amazing. :o
I dunno, it feels like looking at a picture of a building and rebuilding it from scratch.
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The Life of a Goomba: A Grunt's Motivation? →
Evolution is required. No longer can we face off against meaningless enemies without reason.
(via Kotaku)
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of... →
One favorite:
1964 - John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an unstructured programming language for non-computer scientists. 1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964.
And another one:
1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.
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Superman Saves Home From Foreclosure →
The Man of Steel has come to the rescue of a family about to be booted from their home. As they packed up to move out of a house that had been in the family since the 1950s, the family discovered a copy of Action Comics No. 1 in their basement.
Swoops in to save the day. (via Consumerist)
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How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any... →
Some of the better ones (or maybe that’s just because I’m not that familiar with half of the languages):
C You shoot yourself in the foot.
Assembly You try to shoot yourself in the foot only to discover you must first reinvent the gun, the bullet, and your foot. After that’s done, you pull the trigger, the gun beeps several times, then crashes.
Python You try to shoot yourself in...
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106 Comic Con 2010 costumes →
Green Lantern, Iron Man, Big Daddy, Kitana, Emma Frost, Ironwoman, Sue Storm… intense.
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