November 2011
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Psychologists’ golf trick shows superstition... →
“How can you make people better at sports? Tell them they’re using equipment that previously belonged to a professional athlete. No, really. A new study finds that golfers significantly improved their putting ability when they believed the putter they were using belonged to a celebrity golfer.” Read more…
(source: ScienceNow, via Wired)
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Sprint's miserable 3G speed problems explained →
“If you have used 3G on your EVO lately, chances are you’ve noticed the network is getting slow very quickly. Blame has been cast on the iPhone’s recent adoption into the Sprint network as the slowdowns coincided, but the issues are actually a bit more complicated than that.” Read more…
(source: Good and EVO)
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Yet another huge security hole uncovered on all... →
“Well, it looks like we should be expecting another OTA security update from HTC fairly soon. This time, there’s a security hole that seems to effect all WiMAX-enabled HTC Android devices; in other words, all members of the HTC EVO family.” Read more…
(source: Good and EVO)
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Scientists create brain-like, massively parallel... →
“A group of Japanese scientists have built a massively-parallel, brain-like computer out of an organic molecule called DDQ. This computer, which is built from 300 DDQ “neurons,” has successfully calculated how heat diffuses through a medium, and the mutation of normal cells into cancer cells.” Read more…
(source: ExtremeTech)
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Will Firefox stand in the way of the cloud? →
“With more and more of our everyday activities moving to the cloud, you would think that Mozilla — like Google — would be over the moon. The browser is the portal through which the entire web is experienced, after all. In actuality, cloud-based computing represents a serious conflict with Mozilla’s primary purpose. In the words of Mitchell Baker, Chairperson and Chief Lizard Wrangler,...
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Why laptops should be banned at board meetings →
“We now have ultra-lightweight laptops (MacBook Airs) or iPads and totally available Wi-Fi connections. So every board meeting I’m at has laptops opened and iPads on. They are just there to “be productive” and review your material. Um, yeah. This is a mistake.” Read more…
(source: TechCrunch)
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Sprint says iPhone is 50% more network efficient... →
“During the company’s earnings call on Wednesday, Sprint’s CEO Dan Hesse said the iPhone is more than 50% more efficient on Sprint’s network than Android devices. ‘iPhone users are expected to use significantly less 3G data than the typical user of a dual-mode 3G/4G device,’ Hesse added, noting that his company has found that iPhone applications take better advantage of...
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Do kids learn more without computers? →
“Waldorf schools ban computers to help kids learn through creative, tactile tasks. Funny enough, many Silicon Valley bigwigs are on board.” Read more…
(source: The Week)
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New independent analysis confirms global warming... →
“The University of California’s Richard Muller launched the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study, yet another analysis [of global warning], this one independent and aimed at the skeptics. … The new study lined up almost perfectly with previous efforts, according to a Nature post. Spoiler alert: the planet is indeed heating up. Not that a new study is going to win over...
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Wind farms float among the clouds →
“Imagine a city floating above the clouds and powered by a fleet of inflatable turbines, each one turning wind into electricity. While that city and its residents may still be in the realm of science fiction, the idea of airborne wind factories is slowly becoming reality. Several tech firms are trying out new designs to harness the potential energy of winds that travel faster at altitude...
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Microsoft cracks open a window to the future,... →
“In the future, we’ll all be slaves to rectangles. No, really. Well, at least that’s the prognosis, albeit sanitized, Microsoft has slickly pieced together in its Productivity Future Vision concept video. It’s a mostly seamless world where all of our interactions are made to be mobile, virtual, efficient and white-washed, but it actually just reads as too darn fussy and...
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October 2011
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Pat Robertson: Idiot of day!
Robertson: Christians should not join Occupy Wall Street
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(source: Gotcha Media, via BuzzFeed)
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Here we go! More Sprint cutbacks in service... →
Sprint sends final issue of Sprint Premier Connection
Here are all the cutbacks Sprint has made in the last few weeks:
No more annual upgrades for customers who qualified for Sprint Premier Gold status
No more one year contracts
No more $75 early upgrade discount
Increased upgrade fee of $36 (formerly $18)
Reduced exchange and return policy to 14 days (formerly 30)
No more “bill to...
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Is Perl better than a randomly generated... →
[Slashdot] submitter QuantumMist writes:
“Researchers from Southern Illinois University have published a paper comparing Perl to Quorum(PDF) (their own statistically informed programming language) and Randomo (a programming language whose syntax is partially randomly generated). From the paper: ‘Perl users were unable to write programs more accurately than those using a language...
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“I’m Rick Perry and I approve of climate... →
“Rick Perry released his first paid campaign advertisement for the 2012 election in Iowa today. Talking exclusively about energy jobs, Perry grins as he explains his plan to open up every crevice in the U.S. to oil, gas and coal extraction — all while stripping the environmental protection agency of its ability to keep the environment clean. Yes, that’s an inspirational plan all...
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Michele Bachmann: Idiot of the day!
Bachmann miscalculates cost of doctor visit
“When she was a child, [Michele Bachmann] said, a visit to the doctor in Waterloo, Iowa, cost just $5, and people who couldn’t afford that often would receive free care at the physician’s discretion. Such prices and charity care are impossible today, she argued, because of government intervention into the health-care system and the threat of...
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Five ways popular American culture breeds... →
“If you have a relationship with a narcissist, even a malignant narcissist, you’ll probably end up with your dignity, heart, and maybe even bank account, damaged. If you have a relationship with a sociopath, you’ll be lucky if you end up with your body and property intact.” Read more…
(source: PsychCentral)
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How to spot psychopaths: Speech patterns give them... →
“Psychopaths are known to be wily and manipulative, but even so, they unconsciously betray themselves, according to scientists who have looked for patterns in convicted murderers’ speech as they described their crimes.” Read more…
(source: MSNBC.com, via Crabby Go Lightly)
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Yes, Google "stole" from Apple, and that's a good... →
“The important question isn’t whether such “stealing” occurred, it’s whether we want to live in a world where it’s illegal. Do you want to live in a world where only Apple is allowed to make phones with pinch-to-zoom capability (and dozens of other features) until 2027? I sure don’t.” Read more…
(source: Forbes)
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Coming soon: Caffeine you can inhale? →
“If you need a fog-clearing jolt of caffeine in the morning but dislike the taste of coffee, you may be in luck. A Harvard University professor has come up with a new product, AeroShot Pure Energy, that delivers a dose of caffeine in an energizing, lime-flavored puff.” Read more…
(source: The Week)
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Narcissists know they're obnoxious, but love... →
“It’s a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm. They will talk endlessly about themselves, but when they ask about you — well, never mind, because they never do.” Read more…
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Strange tales from the Royal Society →
“The world’s oldest scientific academy, the Royal Society, has made its historical journal, which includes about 60,000 scientific papers, permanently free to access online.” Read more…
(source: BBC, via Slashdot)
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Visa, MasterCard to use buying history for ad... →
“All the purchases you make with your MasterCard or Visa could be used to provide you with more-targeted ads as you surf the Web, a new report claims.” Read more…
(source: CNET, via Slashdot)
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Feds order YouTube to remove video for containing... →
“The number of takedown orders received by Google from authorities based in the United States rose dramatically over the past year, with demands to remove information, including videos containing “government criticism,” increasing by 70 per cent.” Read more…
(sourcr: Fact Over Fiction, via Current)
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Narcissism a front for low self-esteem →
“According to the new research, people who are narcissistic are likely to tell psychologists that they feel good about themselves. But when the psychologists trick these narcissists into thinking they’re hooked up to a working lie-detector test, the truth comes out and the narcissists admit to lower self-esteem.” Read more…
(source: MedIndia)
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IBM simulates 4.5 percent of the human brain, and... →
“IBM is trying to simulate the human brain with its own cutting-edge supercomputer, called Blue Gene. For the simulation, it used 147,456 processors working in parallel with one another. IBM researchers say each processor is roughly equivalent to the one found in a personal computer, with one gigabyte of working memory. So configured, Blue Gene simulated 4.5 percent of the brain’s...
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The narcissistic leader: Not as good as he (or... →
“In most circumstances, narcissism doesn’t go over well. We tend not to like individuals who exhibit arrogance or too much dominance or hostility—all traits associated with the narcissist. But there’s one big exception to the rule: leadership. For some reason, when we rate narcissists on leadership qualities, we put them up there with the best, ranking them high on those attributes that we...
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Patriot Act turns 10, with no signs of retirement →
“The USA Patriot Act, the law granting the government vast surveillance powers that was adopted in the wake of September 11, turns a decade old Wednesday. But despite its namesake of “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism,” the law seemingly is being invoked far more to target domestic crime than for fighting...
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Inductive car charging: No plugs or exposed wires,... →
“Inductive charging works for your electric toothbrush and your iPhone’s external battery pack, so why not for an electric vehicle? HaloIPT, a New Zealand-based startup, sees inductive charging pads as a solution to the hassle of daily recharging of your EV or plug-in hybrid. Instead of remembering to plug in, a charging pad the size of a bath mat in the center of your garage floor would...
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Jay Leno: Idiot of the day!
Jay Leno jokes about accidents at Love Ride Motorcycle Rally, two bikers soon die
“Every year, [the organizer] says, ‘Drive safe’ I’m gonna say, ‘Don’t drive safe.’ I wanna see somebody go down. So it’ll be fun. I want it to be in front or behind me and see a whole row of bikes go down. Get drunk, fall off the road. We’ve all become too damn...
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WatchFrom Broadcast News (1987):
“It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you’re the smartest person in the room.”
“No. It’s awful.”
(via standing-6four)
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Is Tumblr over?
Barack Obama is now on Tumblr…
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(source: barackobama.tumblr.com, via BuzzFeed)
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