February 2012
39 posts
“in October 1985, Alpha Group would be dispatched to Beirut, Lebanon after the...”
– And that, kid, is how you do business!
Alpha Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Submit stories to win a galaxy tab and a year of box ;)
“My daughter got this in the mail!” he said. “She’s still in high school, and...”
– How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did - Forbes
The powerful effect of big data is coming into your daily lives
Patent US5443036 - Method of exercising a cat -... →
Classic example of what’s wrong with the current copyright system in the US: Playing with your cat with a laser is patented. WTF?
Electronic Security a Worry in an Age of Digital... →
Why you shouldn’t bring your files into China
The Scale of the Universe 2 →
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I...”
– Buddha quotes
How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy - Magazine - The... →
Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he’s now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia? A biologist’s science- fiction...
What is the most humane way to kill a fish... →
I don’t like to kill things, but when I do I made sure I read these first
AFP: France convicts Google Maps for unfair... →
France: where clueless idiots sit in court and judge people. First Yahoo is liable for search result, now Google have to pay a fine because it’s free? C’est quoi ce bordel?
January 2012
37 posts
Disney easter egg
Visual Studio Achievements - Visual Studio Gallery →
How to play while you code: FPS-like achievements for Visual Studio now available!
List of countries by credit rating - Wikipedia,... →
Vietnamese government’s bond is rated below ‘junk’ by most credit agencies, meaning that despite the astronomical interest rate, they are not profitable at all.
Stay rates of various countries after obtaining a... →
Includes a list of highly ranked universities based on discipline
Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops - ABC News →
TIL Police officers in the New York is required to be stupid because if they are too intelligent, they will get bored with the job
Gadsby (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
TIL: There’s a 50 110 words novel that doesn’t contain a single instance of ‘e’
