January 2011
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Sleep resolution
Dislike New Year’s resolutions, kind of late for one anyway. Still, as a regular resolution, or rather as a stated commitment, need more sleep and this year is as good a time as any to start. I have made it a habit to go days without sleep or get only 4-5 hours of sleep per 20 hours of consciousness, taking a toll on my body, I think it is a contributor to a higher level of stress than what I am...
February 2010
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I always wondered about this…
This reminds me of “The Chronicles of Narnia”, specifically “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”. The children in this story spends years in Narnia at the end of the story & grow up & mature. When they go back home, its as if they never left & they still behave like children, or maybe they never actually matured in that world (although in one book, Queen Susan was offered...
December 2009
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re: Geeks ♥ Google
marco:
Would they really fall apart? Or is it more likely that they could gradually add more features and policies that do screw around with search results, and it wouldn’t matter because most consumers wouldn’t notice or care and most geeks unconditionally love and defend everything Google does?
Google will only get Geek ♥ Love so long as they continue to generally not suck. Even if the...
October 2009
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“ I am Sarda. And I am Older than time, I possess a power beyond mortal...”
– Sarda, the wizard who did it.
August 2009
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June 2009
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English mania →
This video is worth watching just to hear the clips of Chinese kids screaming in English. I don’t mean that it is funny, it is actually quite beautiful. I have long held the belief that school children, if you can get them together to sing in chorus then they can turn even the worst song with the worst lyrics in the world into þe most beautiful song ever imagined for just a small moment...
May 2009
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Too cute not to link to ^_^ →
You never would have guessed that this koala is not only a neoconservative, but will also kick your ass in any word game.
“The very first thing the President did was to show me the new Presidential Seal,...”
– Winston Churchill
EFF Report on the FBI's Investigative Data... →
By September 2008, the IDW had grown to nearly one billion (997,368,450) unique documents. The Library of Congress, by way of comparison, has about 138 million (138,313,427) items in its collection.
The rest of the report goes into detail about what the FBI actually keeps inside of this “everything bucket” & the infrastructure the FBI uses to power it. I’ll probably be up for half...
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Everything buckets →
Everything Buckets discourage the use of structured data by providing a convenient place to commingle “structureless” data like RTF and PDF documents.
I am also very much against “everything buckets” in favor of structuring my data in directories. However even that can be a time consuming process so I’m looking to store my data in a higher-level system that keeps everything in...
March 2009
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“It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what...”
– Terry Pratchett
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Medpedia →
Found this on Ars Technica, it’s supposed to be a medical encyclopædia in the form of a wiki that only physicians and those with a PhD in a biomedical field can edit, though everyone else is free to make suggestions and they want wiki-veterans to help with formatting.
November 2007
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“The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution...”
– Alan Kay