May 2009
“Billions of dollars are at stake here along with our national secrets....”
– Tim Mather, “chief security strategist” for RSA Security. Everything is run over cyber.
“Put three grains of sand in a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more...”
– Sir James Jeans
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“I’ve never seen him so down, or ever before.”
– Scruffy, from Futurama. Thank you, aedison, for making me look up paraprosdokian again.
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16VOLT makes back catalogue free to download →
We have decided to give away our entire back catalog and make it freely and openly available to anyone and everyone who wants to hear it. All files are 192 kbps, 44.1kHz mp3s. We want you to give it to your friends, your enemies, your family, share it with everyone, everywhere. Our goal is to get it out to the people more than it ever has. We want everyone to hear it, own it and share it....
My latest hobby: Crude, bilingual haiku
Here is my first attempt:
吸う、涎。クソッ、獅子がいる！車、急く！ (Suu, yodare. Kuso, shishi ga iru! Kuruma, seku!)
Slurping and drooling. JESUS CHRIST it’s a lion!
Quick, get in the car!
(A more literal translation would be: “Slurping, drool. Shit, there’s a lion! Car, hurry!”)
Pick One →
Which is better: A or B? Click. Click. Click. Click. This site is brilliant.
As proof of the theory of crowd wisdom, here are the ten worst things ever, as voted by Pick One users:
AIDS
Cancer
Disease
9/11
Famine
Fascism
War
Hell
Hate
Ugg Boots
Update: It asked me to choose between Women and Tea. This is why there is no god.
Bully algorithm →
The bully algorithm is a method in distributed computing for dynamically selecting a coordinator by process ID number…
Note that if process P receives a victory message from a process with a lower ID number, it immediately initiates a new election. This is how the algorithm gets its name — a process with a higher ID number will bully a lower ID process out of the coordinator position as...
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Agoraphobic Nosebleed – First National Stem Cell...
“Don’t underestimate this guy just because his puppet was funny in...”
– reddit on Kim Jong-il
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“If you move your mouse pointer continuously while the data is being returned to...”
– Microsoft Help and Support
“I tell you what, we are going to this party, because I’m trying to picture...”
– Bernard Black
Hello California, this is the 21st century...
Three tweets in a row:
Warren Ellis: ‘Wow, California’s turned into a bit of a shithole. Prop 8 upheld, moves to decimate social welfare… nice place to visit, but…’
Avery Edison: ‘The irony of not being considered fully human by a state that might as well be “home of the breast implant” is delicious. Fuck you, CA.’
Joe the Peacock: ‘At a...
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Black Books
Bernard: You want the price put down?
Customer: Well I was thinking two pounds.
Bernard: Because three pounds is just naked profiteering on a book a mere… 912 pages long. What'll I do with that extra pound? I'll add another acre to the grounds. I'll chuck a few more koi carp in my piano shaped pond. No, I know, I'll build a wing on the National Gallery with my name on it.
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inky – Shoot At It Until It Dies (0:54)
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