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March 13 2010
fpletz
French village went insane after CIA spiked its bread with LSD
March 12 2010
Slow to the touch
People are slower to respond to tactile words (e.g., “itchy”) than words from the others senses:
Psychologists think the answer may have to with attention. Perhaps we’re not so good at keeping our attention focused on the tactile modality compared with the others. Now [reseachers] have added to the picture by showing that the tactile disadvantage extends to the conceptual...
March 11 2010
Ten Word Wiki
Like Wikipedia except all entries are ten words long. Or:
Ten Word Wiki is an Encyclopedia for the ADD generation.
(via @ettagirl)
Tags: Wikipedia wikis
Philip K. Dick on Blade Runner
Philip K. Dick never got to see Blade Runner, Ridley Scott's film adaptation of his book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, but he did catch a snippet of the film on TV a few months before he died and was over the moon about it.
I can only say that I did not know that a work of mine or a set of ideas of mine could be escalated into such stunning dimensions. My life and creative work are...
Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking
Wikibooks Cryptography Textbook
Over at Wikibooks, they're trying to write an open source cryptography textbook.
March 10 2010
“ You've chosen to block this site in your hosts file. ”— That was close.
“ Those faced with the problem of how to verify a person's identity would be well advised to ask themselves the question, 'Identity with what?' An enquirer equipped with the answer to this question is in a position to tackle, on a rational basis, the task of deciding what evidence will be useful for the purpose. Without the answer to the question, the verification of identity becomes a sadly familiar exercise in blind compliance with arbitrary rules. ”— Schneier on Security: The Limits of Identity Cards
EU Parliament Rejects ACTA In a 663 To 13 Vote
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Gas Powered Games To Include Mac Development Going Forward
Chris Taylor of Gas Powered Games said that he loves Valve's announcement that they are bringing Steam to Apple's Mac platform.
March 09 2010
Surprise Challenger Sets Donkey Kong Record
Move over, Steve Wiebe. Take a hike, Billy Mitchell. There's a new King of Kong in town, and his name is Hank Chien.
SecondBar Puts a Menu Bar on All Your Mac's Monitors [Downloads]
Follow-Up on HP’s ‘License Plate Domain’ URLs
Yesterday, after linking to “http://h20435.www2.hp.com/t5/Voodoo-Blog/The-HP-s-Slate-Device-Runs-The-Complete-Internet-Including-Flash/ba-p/53838”, I asked what the deal was with that crazy server name. A DF reader who works at HP emailed:
Internally it’s called something stupid, like a “license plate name” or somesuch. HP IT does that so they can physically locate a server when it goes...
Rediscovering the cure for scurvy
Maciej Ceglowski tells the story of how the cure for scurvy was discovered, lost, and finally redsicovered, but not before it disrupted Robert Falcon Scott's 1911 expedition to reach the South Pole.
This is a good example of how the very ubiquity of vitamin C made it hard to identify. Though scurvy was always associated with a lack of greens, fresh meat contains adequate amounts of vitamin C...
European Parliament Declaring War Against ACTA
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