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Space is really big!
"Let's start by first shrinking the Earth to the size of a Tennis Ball."
blog  article  science  astronomy  space  education  interesting 
5 weeks ago by milkmiruku
Brain wiring a no-brainer? Scans reveal astonishingly simple 3D grid structure
"Far from being just a tangle of wires, the brain's connections turn out to be more like ribbon cables -- folding 2D sheets of parallel neuronal fibers that cross paths at right angles, like the warp and weft of a fabric,"
news  article  brain  neuroscience  physiology  science  medical  biology  interesting 
8 weeks ago by milkmiruku
5 Torrent Files That Broke Mind Boggling Records
"Today we’ll bring you a list of 5 single torrent files that each broke an impressive record, from the largest through to the oldest, and the one that transferred most data."
article  bittorrent  technology  software  media  download  storage  history  interesting  hdd 
8 weeks ago by milkmiruku
Q&A: Hacker Historian George Dyson Sits Down With Wired's Kevin Kelly
Dyson: In some creation myths, life arises out of the earth; in others, life falls out of the sky. The creation myth of the digital universe entails both metaphors. The hardware came out of the mud of World War II, and the code fell out of abstract mathematical concepts. Computation needs both physical stuff and a logical soul to bring it to life. These were young kids who had just come through World War II, who could repair the electronics on airplanes and get them flying the same day, and von Neumann put them together with mathematical logicians who could imagine a universe created entirely out of 0s and 1s.
interview  article  history  technology  computing  hacker  maths  engineering  narrative  myth 
february 2012 by milkmiruku
drinking games
"...in the end, culture is a more powerful tool in dealing with drinking than medicine, economics, or the law."
blog  article  alcohol  anthropology  culture  psychology  social  education  interesting 
february 2012 by milkmiruku
How the BBC's HD DRM plot was kept secret … and why | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"So what did Ofcom do? Naturally, it listened to the public, ignored the uncompetitive rent-seeking proposals from the commercial sector, adhered to EU law, and rejected the proposal. Well, that's what they did in a parallel universe. In this universe, Ofcom accepted the self-serving arguments of the companies they're meant to be regulating, ignored the public whose interests they were meant to be safeguarding, and gave the BBC what it asked for. Why did it do this? It's a secret. But not any more."
news  article  bbc  drm  ofcom  legal  software  technology  video  media  streaming  licensing  business  rights  hdtv  tv  politics 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
The Gayest Story Ever Told | Why did the ‘New Yorker’ reject this R. Crumb cover? | VICE
"People are capable of any sexual thing. To ban their marriage because someone doesn’t like the idea of them both being the same sex, that’s ridiculous."
article  news  usa  lgbt  art  politics  comics  hate 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
Unlimited Novelty: Node.js has jumped the shark
"That way you'll have a truly roflscale Fibonacci web service."
programming  blog  article  humour  internet  server  maths  fibonacci 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
brain of mat kelcey | do all first links on wikipedia lead to philosophy?
"this raises a number of questions: Q: though i wouldn't be surprised if it's true for most articles it can't be true for all articles. can it? Q: what's the distribution of distances (measured in "number of clicks away") from 'Philosophy'?
Q: by this same measure what's the furthest article from 'Philosophy'? Q: are there any other articles that are more common than 'Philosophy'? Q: what are the common paths to 'Philosophy'?"
blog  article  philosophy  knowledge  wiki  wikipedia  interesting  graph  data 
august 2011 by milkmiruku
HTML5 Rocks - How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers
"In the years of IE 90% dominance there was nothing much to do but regard the browser as a "black box", but now, with open source browsers having more than half of the usage share, it's a good time to take a peek under the engine's hood and see what's inside a web browser. Well, what's inside are millions of C++ lines..."
technology  design  reference  web  html  internet  software  opensource  article  research  interesting  dom 
august 2011 by milkmiruku
Self-Defeating Sentences « Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP
"Today Ken and I want to talk about a different kind of special sentence, one that is self-defeating. A self-defeating sentence is one that ensures it cannot achieve its desired end, which in this instance is to illustrate a self-defeating sentence."
blog  article  language  linguistiics  humour  interesting  war  art 
july 2011 by milkmiruku
Lyric clouds, genre maps and distinctive words
"One of the interesting things that sets even superficially similiar genres of music apart is their lyrical content. Last.fm tags can overlap to a great degree, but we were interested to see what the words can tell you about the subtler shades of meaning that go along with those tags. As usual around here, the best way to answer questions like these is by asking the data."
article  blog  music  statistics  linguistics  language  interesting 
june 2011 by milkmiruku
Quake’s 3-D Engine:  The Big Picture
"If you want to be a game programmer, or for that matter any sort of programmer at all, here’s the secret to success in just two words:  Ship it.  Finish the product and get it out the door, and you’ll be a hero.  It sounds simple, but it’s a surprisingly rare skill, and one that’s highly prized by software companies.  Here’s why."
article  quake  3d  software  internet  programming  interesting 
june 2011 by milkmiruku
New Statesman - Alan Moore: "I've disproved the existence of death"
One question remains: how do you celebrate finishing a 750,000-word novel? Moore pauses. "I'll probably have a bit of a lie down."
news  literature  books  article  fiction  humour 
june 2011 by milkmiruku
Why I am an amoral, family-hating monster…and Newt Gingrich isn't
"So, just a suggestion: if you want a relationship that lasts, don't rely on god, lawyers, and social pressure to force it to work. Love and reciprocal trust are the only chains that last, and the only ones that make you feel happy while wearing them."
morality  marriage  relationships  sociology  psychology  interesting  article  op-ed  legal 
march 2011 by milkmiruku
The Node Ahead: JavaScript leaps from browser into future • The Register
"So Node is neither The New Rails nor The New PHP. It's something else entirely."
article  development  javascript  programming  web  protocol  server  interesting  efficient 
march 2011 by milkmiruku
Dems push for Congressional investigation of HBGary Federal
Hunton & Williams, the middleman law firm in all this (and the middleman between a major US bank and Team Themis' similar plan to take down WikiLeaks), has steadfastly refused to comment on the whole story. But it too may find itself in trouble after a professional conduct complaint (PDF) was lodged against it last week in Washington, DC"
article  news  anonymous  security  lulz  legal  usa  government 
march 2011 by milkmiruku
Information overload? Time to relax then | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"There are fascinating implications for a world of probabilistic resource use: for one thing, it points up the importance of "signal amplification" through retweets, reposts, and other recycling of interesting tit-bits – these are critical to the successful use of a medium that can't be consumed by any one person from tip to tail."
article  productivity  media  web  internet  social  filtering  tools  attention 
march 2011 by milkmiruku
Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack
"Over the last week, I've talked to some of those who participated in the HBGary hack to learn in detail how they penetrated HBGary's defenses and gave the company such a stunning black eye—and what the HBGary example means for the rest of us mere mortals who use the Internet."
security  anonymous  hacking  email  it  article  news  humour 
february 2011 by milkmiruku
Dutch Design Week
"He transformed a machine retired from a Chinese production line into a large scale, low-res 3D printer."
blog  article  video  3d  printing  technology  cool  furniture  plastic  art  design 
february 2011 by milkmiruku
Door Closer Adjustment
"CAUTION: DO NOT COMPLETELY UNSCREW DOOR CLOSER HYDRAULIC ADJUSTMENT SCREWS OR YOU WILL RUIN THE CLOSER AND VOID THE WARRANTEE. Also, hydraulic fluid will leak out of the closer and make a mess. This will make you unpopular. "
article  howto  hardware  housing  door  hydraulic  technology 
august 2010 by milkmiruku
Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan on Faith, Religion, Tolerance, Moderates, Bible, God, Islam, Atheism, Jesus, Christian Nation
"You have simply declared your faith to be immune to rational challenge. As you didn't come to believe in God by taking any state of the world into account, no possible state of the world could put His existence in doubt. This is the very soul of dogmatism."
atheism  religion  blog  article  culture  science  interesting 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
China and Iran: two ways to do family planning.
"Many countries are debating whether they should have population policies. Here are two – very different – examples of nations that rapidly reduced their birth rates."
article  education  children  iran  china  culture  society  law  interesting  family 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
NCBI ROFL: Don’t ask, don’t check my gag reflex.
“In a study of consititutional psychopathic personalities especially the sexual deviants, it was found during a routine physical examination that the gag reflex was frequently absent. This was a more definite finding in those homosexuals who admitted fellatio. ... The positive test, i.e., the absence of the gag reflex, depends on the desensitization of this area due to conditioning, this being brought about by the repeated control of the reflex during the act of fellatio … Frequently it proved valuable in detecting the malingerer who attempted to obtain a discharge by professing homosexuality. Presented with the gag test findings the soldier would invariably change his story or admit having lied for selfish gains.”
blog  article  history  usa  army  lgbt  felatio  sex  physiology  interesting 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
BBC News - Vegetative state patients can respond to questions
"Scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts."

The research, carried out in the UK and Belgium, involved a new brain scanning method.

Awareness was detected in three other patients previously diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.
news  bbc  article  science  research  health  brain  neuroscience  ethics  computer  medicine  belgium  uk  biology  interesting  fmri 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
OnLive Game Service Preview - Is this the future of PC gaming?
You can see that there are clearly a lot more questions that need to be answered about gaming services like OnLive both in terms of the user experience and how it will interact with the rest of the gaming community at large, both PC and console. I see a lot of potential for OnLive to revolutionize gaming and how this entertainment medium works across any number of platforms.
news  article  gaming  computer  streaming  technology  pc  interesting  prediction 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
ignore the code: Realism in UI Design
"The trick is to figure out which details help users identify the UI element, and which details distract from its intended meaning. Some details help users figure out what they’re looking at and how they can interact with it; other details distract from the idea you’re trying to convey. They turn your interface element from a concept into a specific thing. Thus, if an interface element is too distinct from its real-life counterpart, it becomes too hard to recognize. On the other hand, if it is too realistic, people are unable to figure out that you’re trying to communicate an idea, and what idea that might be."
article  blog  design  graphics  interface  development  gui  psychology  web  software  usability  cognition  logos  icons  resources  howto  reference  interesting  ui  ux  webdesign 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Wired 1997 | Wiring the Jet Set
Boeing is equipping factory-floor workers with a modified VR setup - and rapidly cutting the time it takes to wire new jetliners.
article  augmentedreality  mobile  technology  hardware  aeroplane  electronics  business  visualization  cool  interesting  prediction 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Google Wave: we came, we saw, we played D&D
"I wasn't the least bit surprised to quickly discover a handful of Wave-based roleplaying games already in progress, and many more in various stages of planning. In the past few days, I've watched games from the sideline and talked to some Game Masters and gamers—there seems to be an emerging consensus that Google Wave has as much RPG potential as any platform since the venerable and proverbial tabletop."
news  article  rpg  gaming  internet  wave  software  games  google  culture  interesting  emerging 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries
"It seems that more expressive typography will be working its way to the Web soon. But Kew isn't stopping at basic font support via WOFF. He has also been experimenting with implementing support for advanced typographic features like ligatures, discretionary forms, alternate forms, tabular figures for easier to read tables, and more, all via CSS properties."
article  news  fonts  metadata  typography  format  css  html  openformat  web  firefox  w3c  woff 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
Online Dating Advice: Exactly What To Say In A First Message « OkTrends
"We analyzed over 500,000 first contacts on our dating site, OkCupid. Our program looked at keywords and phrases, how they affected reply rates, and what trends were statistically significant. The result: a set of rules for what you should and shouldn’t say when introducing yourself online. This is the second post of our statistical investigation into the optimal online dating message; a note about how we protected user privacy is here."
blog  article  communication  statistics  social  relationships  language  linguistics  psychology  culture  dating  humour 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Dumpster Diving | ReadyMade Magazine
“He is making pools out of dumpsters"
article  blog  design  diy  space  cool  architecture  collaboration  swimming  dumpster 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Poynter Online - Writing Tools (On Twitter)
"The moral is that the brevity of an e-mail message, a blog post, a text message, even a tweet, is no obstacle to powerful information, a persuasive argument, a literary moment, a zinger, a joke."
article  technology  culture  twitter  writing  grammar  newmedia  journalism  language  web  tools  interesting 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
XMPP: Catch the Wave
"At the Google I/O developer conference earlier today, Google made a big splash by announcing Wave, a radical rethinking of communication over the Internet. As Tim O’Reilly noted, the Wave vision is to combine the best of different conversational media and collaboration tools, including email, IM, phone, microblogging, and file sharing. Little noted among hoopla is the fact that “The Google Wave Federation Protocol is an open extension to XMPP core [RFC3920] protocol to allow near real-time communication between two wave servers.”
blog  article  news  google  web  im  jabber  xmpp  standards  openprotocol  interesting  wave  communication 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Complexity and the Global Ecological Crisis, by Kay Summer and Harry Halpin
"A second possible basin of attraction is a system of decentralized, cooperative communities, whose relations are based on affinity—because we all share the same biosphere—and which maintain a high level of connectivity with one another. This form of social organization is perpetually open and always seeking new connections. In the spirit of complexity theory—and unlike previous revolutionary movements—this system embraces no determinism. The logic of autonomy allows the components of the system to optimize their own connections, and so connect to people, materials, passions and places in a manner that takes optimal advantage of material and energy flows."
article  capitalism  socialism  anarchism  prediction  economics  interesting  cooperatives  society  politics  business 
august 2009 by milkmiruku
Behind the music: The real reason why the major labels love Spotify
"So, in the light of recent revelations, I'm afraid I'm going to have to withdraw the virtual Fair Trade stamp I gave Spotify a few months back, until they prove that they are, indeed, concerned about treating artists right."
news  article  music  technology  streaming  digital  licensing  internet  business  interesting 
august 2009 by milkmiruku
The Web's Dirtiest Site (Douglas Rushkoff does 4chan)
But the whole episode reminded me that, in spite of the Web's seemingly secure and consumer-friendly facade, there is still some Wild West left out there. And 4Chan is the OK Corral. So like a middle-aged Australian businessman going on walkabout, I decided to spend a couple of weeks embedded in this famously depraved, raucously fertile community.
article  op-ed  culture  internet  web  society  4chan  censorship  hacking  interesting 
august 2009 by milkmiruku
The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting. - By Emily Yoffe - Slate Magazine
"It is the liking system that Berridge believes is the brain's reward center. When we experience pleasure, it is our own opioid system, rather than our dopamine system, that is being stimulated. This is why the opiate drugs induce a kind of blissful stupor so different from the animating effect of cocaine and amphetamines. Wanting and liking are complementary. The former catalyzes us to action; the latter brings us to a satisfied pause. Seeking needs to be turned off, if even for a little while, so that the system does not run in an endless loop."
article  psychology  neuroscience  science  interesting  technology  internet  search 
august 2009 by milkmiruku
www.phpguru.org: Whats new in HTML5?
"HTML4 has been with us for a while now, roughly ten years. And it hasn't really seen a major update. Sure there's XHTML, but that did little more than make things slightly stricter - making you write better quality code if you were at all concerned with compliance. HTML5 does more than that. For one thing it adds a few new features. Not a huge amount, but the ones that it does add are very useful. "
article  reference  guide  html  html5  web  internet  design  interesting  browser 
july 2009 by milkmiruku
My Nethack YAAP
"The ultimate computer game for the imagination. That sounds like a pretty outlandish title, huh ... but I mean what I say. By accident as much as design, Nethack has evolved as a game that is uniquely suited to exercise the imagination. It takes place in a complicated, colorful world, and it describes that world using a method that shows you exactly what's going on ... but which also demands - insists - that you use your creative skills to visualize, hear, and feel the environment. This unique game doesn't draw you into itself - it compels you to draw yourself into it. "
article  gaming  nethack  howto  software  history  interesting  rpg 
july 2009 by milkmiruku
When divorce is the wiser option
"We all know some: parents who can't stand each other, but have made a hard-headed decision to stay together nonetheless. They are exactly the kind of people who would be glued back together by Cameron's policies if they succeeded in their goal. It turns out their children do worse than any other group – including those of divorcees or single mums. If you are raised by arguing parents who stayed together only for you, then you are 33 per cent more likely to become a binge-drinking teen than if you have a single parent, for example."
article  op-ed  politics  society  social  relationships  children  interesting 
july 2009 by milkmiruku
How the Google Chrome 3.0 Dev, Firefox 3.5 RC, Safari 4.0 for Windows, and Opera 10b web browsers manage memory on Vista.
"Problem. You are interested in how the Google Chrome 3.0 Dev, Firefox 3.5 RC, Safari 4.0 for Windows, and Opera 10b web browsers manage memory on the Windows Vista operating system over moderate usage, such as with 150 top web sites. These numbers can be measured but there are complexities involved in measuring memory. Solution. Here we look at a program that simulates a user visiting the top 150 web sites from Alexa from the command line, with visits occurring at short but varying intervals in many tabs."
article  browser  software  web  firefox  opera  safari  chrome  windows  memory  vista  test  research  interesting 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman
"It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette."
bbc  article  technology  music  history  uk  mp3  mobile  hardware  interesting  humour 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
Shock jocks: Voice of unreason - Americas, World - The Independent
"Put bluntly, right-leaning talk's audience is dying off. A recent profile of Limbaugh by Vanity Fair claimed that the average age of his listeners is 67 and rising. Fox's average viewer is said to be in their seventh decade. In a changing world, against a President catapulted to power with a staggering majority of the youth, they may (in the long term) turn out to be onto a losing bet."
article  op-ed  usa  radio  politics  media  interesting  culture 
may 2009 by milkmiruku
Johann Hari: How to spot a lame, lame argument - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
"The best way to respond to what-aboutery is to state a simple truth. Say it slowly: there can be more than one bad thing in the world. You can oppose American atrocities, and Chinese atrocities. You can be critical of Israel, and of Islamism. You can condemn Dubai's system of slavery, and the fact people are detained without trial in Britain. You can stand independent of governments - including your own - and criticize anyone who chooses to abuse human rights. The world is not divided into a Block of Light, and a Block of Darkness; you don't have to pick a tribe and defend its every action. "
op-ed  politics  article  debate  psychology  argument  logic  rights  uk  dubai  journalism 
april 2009 by milkmiruku
Why we procrastinate and how to stop | Eureka! Science News
"Even though all of the students were being paid upon completion, those who thought about the questions abstractly were much more likely to procrastinate--and in fact some never got around to the assignment at all. By contrast, those who were focused on the how, when and where of doing the task e-mailed their responses much sooner, suggesting that they hopped right on the assignment rather than delaying it."
article  science  research  productivity  psychology  life  lifehacks  motivation  interesting 
january 2009 by milkmiruku
How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio
"Much of what we think of as being out there actually comes from in here, and is a byproduct of how the brain processes sensation. In recent years scientists have come up with a number of simple tricks that expose the artifice of our senses, so that we end up perceiving what we know isn't real - tweaking the cortex to produce something uncannily like hallucinations. Perhaps we hear the voice of someone who is no longer alive, or feel as if our nose is suddenly 3 feet long."
article  science  neuroscience  psychology  brain  interesting  cool 
january 2009 by milkmiruku
Journal of Religion and Society
"The approximately 800 million mostly middle class adults and children act as a massive epidemiological experiment that allows hypotheses that faith in a creator or disbelief in evolution improves or degrades societal conditions to be tested on an international scale. ... the data examined in this study demonstrates that only the more secular, pro-evolution democracies have, for the first time in history, come closest to achieving practical “cultures of life” that feature low rates of lethal crime, juvenile-adult mortality, sex related dysfunction, and even abortion. The least theistic secular developed democracies such as Japan, France, and Scandinavia have been most successful in these regards."
research  article  culture  science  religion  sociology  psychology  crime  statistics  health  evolution  atheism  interesting 
january 2009 by milkmiruku
Exclusive: Oil Immersion Cooling Goes Mainstream with Hardcore PC's Reactor | Maximum PC
"The future today! Switched on, the Reactor looks like a PC snatched from the future and placed on your desktop. Production machines promise to be quiet and as ominous as it looks here."
news  article  technology  hardware  computer  cool  geek  design  pc 
october 2008 by milkmiruku
Homegrown Evolution: Build a Solar Dehydrator
"Our solar dehydrator is constructed out of plywood and consists of a heat collector containing a black metal screen housed in a box with a clear plastic top. ... We ... have used it each season for tomatoes, figs and for making dried zucchini chips."
blog  article  diy  food  solar  howto  garden  reference  guide  cooking 
october 2008 by milkmiruku
How to care for your leather clothing and leather lingerie
"The care of your leather clothing and leather lingerie is very important to keep it in like new condition. The most important thing to do is to follow the manufacturers care instructions. Some other things that you can do are:"
article  reference  resource  clothing  leather  care  howto  guide 
october 2008 by milkmiruku
Don't Judge New Media by Old Rules, Written by Cory Doctorow
"But there's another reason that these new media tell stories in different ways from their old media predecessors: They're telling different stories."
article  op-ed  internet  media  newmedia  oldmedia  web2.0  technology  web  communication  publishing  blogging  interesting 
september 2008 by milkmiruku
Warcarting: the low-cost alternative to wardriving
"Warcarting: the hobo's approach to wireless communications interception."
wireless  hardware  security  technology  article  video  wifi  humour  diy  hack  hardhack  mit  internet  radio 
august 2008 by milkmiruku
HP shatters excessive packaging world record | The Register
"What the überbox did contain was 16 smaller boxes "which in turn [each] contained (wrapped in foam so they wouldn't get broken) exactly two sheets of A4 paper"
article  technology  computing  license  environment  sustainability  humour  wtf 
july 2008 by milkmiruku
Employment tribunal has “legitimised homophobia” - Pink News
"Religious people could have the legal entitlement to discriminate on conscientious grounds against gay people after an employment tribunal ruled in favour of a Christian council worker."
article  news  uk  law  lgbt  religion  discrimination  rights  hate 
july 2008 by milkmiruku
Where is the centre of the universe?
"careful studies of the distribution and motion of galaxies confirm that it is homogeneous on the largest scales we can see, with no sign of a special point to call the centre."
article  space  science  astronomy  physics  interesting  research  universe 
july 2008 by milkmiruku
New map IDs the core of the human brain (7/2/2008)
"An international team of researchers has created the first complete high-resolution map of how millions of neural fibers in the human cerebral cortex -- the outer layer of the brain responsible for higher level thinking -- connect and communicate."
news  article  biology  brain  science  technology  visualization  neuroscience  network  mapping  interesting 
july 2008 by milkmiruku
Bad Science » All time classic creationist pwnage
"The following exchange is mirrored humbly and verbatim in case of disappearance. It represents pwnage on a scale most of us can only dream of."
article  research  science  religion  evolution  biology  creationism  humour  interesting 
july 2008 by milkmiruku
IT vs. initiative: The Internet age comes to the battlefield | The Industry Standard
"Unfortunately, high-speed communications and bold initiative do not always go hand in hand. With such an abundance of information available simultaneously at all levels, micromanagement can creep unnoticed into the chain of command and pull it apart."
article  op-ed  iraq  usa  military  technology  computers  communication  e-mail  im  interesting 
june 2008 by milkmiruku
White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail - NYTimes.com
"The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened, se
news  article  email  environment  politics  policy  usa  corruption  wtf 
june 2008 by milkmiruku
Washington's Farewell Address - Wikisource
"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at le
usa  politics  essay  article  speech  history  consensus  democracy  interesting 
june 2008 by milkmiruku
Basic Principles of Constitutionalism
Essays on the basics of and rationals behind constitutionalism.
politics  essay  article  interesting  constitutionalism  law  government 
june 2008 by milkmiruku
Nick Clegg: Democracy? What a great idea... - UK Politics, UK - The Independent
Five months in, Nick Clegg gets mad.
uk  politics  libdems  democracy  liberalism  authoritarianism  interesting  article  op-ed 
may 2008 by milkmiruku
OpenID Status Check: A Guide to Getting and Using Your OpenID - ReadWriteWeb
"OpenID is convenient for end users, allowing them to login to numerous web sites using one set of credentials - their OpenID. But how is OpenID doing today? Where can you get one? And more importantly, where can you use it?"
openid  internet  web  dataportability  blog  article  reference  social  web2.0  interesting  resource 
april 2008 by milkmiruku
B3TA : INTERVIEWS : WES CHERRY
B3ta.com interviews Wes Cherry, the creator of Solitaire for Windows.
article  game  games  windows  interview  interesting  software  microsoft 
april 2008 by milkmiruku
Technology Review: Moving In on the Wii
"the Motus Darwin measures absolute position with respect to earth itself. Using gyroscopes and accelerometers, the controller orients itself to the magnetic north, and senses the direction it is pointing."
hardware  gaming  inputdev  wii  electronics  cool  interesting  news  article 
february 2008 by milkmiruku
Introducing the XMPP application server: The Twitter example - Process-one
"This article introduces this new concept and explains how to build a distributed event-based infrastructure for social networking. The example application that illustrate this article is a distributed Twitter-like microblogging platform."
xmpp  jabber  twitter  server  ejabberd  programming  service  xml  article  cool  interesting  im 
february 2008 by milkmiruku
SolutionBase: Boot Windows XP from a USB flash drive
As title.
windows  usb  tools  xp  howto  article  software 
january 2008 by milkmiruku
Corkscrew cups could keep space drinks flowing - tech - 17 January 2008 - New Scientist Tech
"These forms should function much better as containers for holding fluids in microgravity, they say surface tension holds liquid inside the coil and the properties of the shape's surface allow fluid to be sucked out in one go."
article  news  space  technology  cool  science 
january 2008 by milkmiruku
Decriminalize File Sharing « Karl Sigfrid
"The article, calling for decriminalization of all file sharing, has started a loud debate in Swedish media."
article  blog  politics  p2p  news  law  copyright  sweden  filesharing  technology  privacy  democracy  interesting 
january 2008 by milkmiruku
chadzilla: making vodka pills in 24 hours
"I use this word to describe the process of making liquid-filled candies by pouring flavoured alcohol syrups into cornstarch and letting it set until a hard outer shell forms."
article  blog  alcohol  food  recipes  cooking  interesting  cool 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
Viacom opens up Daily Show archive - FierceIPTV - IPTV News, IP Videos, Quadruple Play, Set-top box
"Viacom has put online the entire eight year archive of its top rating comedy series, Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a move which will be closely watched by all the major networks, advertisers, telcos and the burgeoning new media video industry."
news  usa  tv  article  video  humour  satire  politics  cool 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
A Mock Columnist, Amok - Steven Colbert - New York Times
"Second, winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don’t need to care about science, literature or peace."
article  op-ed  satire  parody  usa  politics  humour 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
AlterNet: Four Myths Government and Media Use to Scare Us About 'Dictators'
"Now we are creating a new fog of mythologies -- about a "dictator" who isn't one, about "appeasement" that is completely inapplicable, about nuclear weapons that don't exist, about a country that is "evil" -- that make it seem like we must do something."
article  op-ed  war  usa  iran  iraq  policy  politics  media 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
Mobile VoIP waits on 4G networks | The Register
"Mobile VoIP services have yet to make their mark on the telecoms market, despite the availability of suitable technology."
news  article  voip  technology  telephone  internet  business  wifi  prediction 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time
To watch.
article  blog  movies  film  list  sci-fi  prediction  technology  history  reference  dystopia  geek 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
How problem families learn self-respect | Focus | The Observer
"In the battle to tame 'neighbours from hell', one scheme is at the cutting edge of government strategy. Amelia Hill was granted unprecedented access to see how violence-prone families are helped and given hope."
article  psychology  society  uk  family  interesting 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
Language Log: Like, I care whether semantics are or is?
"I mean, it's not just a question of neither being pleased about Mr. Long's choice of verb form nor not pleased; we are talking about a deep and unbounded apathy here, a cosmically profound level of apathy down to which few people's refusal to give a monk
blog  article  language  grammar  semantics  humour 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
alasdair: Better Living Through Chemistry
"But whisky, on the other hand, still is something I love. So, let's talk about whisky, then."
blog  article  whisky  reference  history  alcohol  drugs  chemistry 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
Language Log: The Barry White effect
"And this particular form of sexual dimorphism is apparently not shared with our relatives the chimps and gorillas, so it must have evolved during the same period that human speech and language did."
blog  article  research  language  speech  evolution  biology  physiology  psychology  music  interesting 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
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