March 2011
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“90% of coding is debugging. The other 10% is writing bugs.”
– Bram Cohen, author of the BitTorrent protocol. (via alt-4326)
“Evolution is more than a theory, it’s a fundamental scientific principle”
– Dr. Phlox, Star Trek: Enterprise
115 arguments for why god exists.
atheism-:
1. TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENT, a.k.a. PRESUPPOSITIONALIST (I) (1) If reason exists then God exists. (2) Reason exists. (3) Therefore, God exists. 2. COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT, a.k.a. FIRST CAUSE ARGUMENT (I) (1) If I say something must have a cause, it has a cause. (2) I say the universe must have a cause. (3) Therefore, the universe has a cause. (4) Therefore, God exists. 3. ONTOLOGICAL...
“Me and my friends been too busy bathing off the southern coast of St Barts for...”
– Hansel, in the movie Zoolander
(via hiremebecauseimsmart)
House Repubs Vote That Earth Is Not Warming →
and pi = 3.0
flapjacksblog2 asked: What is your favorite Cartoon Network show?
the shuffle mode on my iPod seems to have gotten stuck on Beatle songs
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Beannachtam na Femle Padraig!
somebody spoke and I went into a dream
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Google's microsite with info about Japanese... →
facebook page →
“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library,...”
– Ray Bradbury (via magiktrip)
During the Russian revolution, the mathematical...
iseetheseainyoureyes:
Posted by John Barrow in his article “It’s All Platonic Pie In The Sky,” in 1993
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What's your favorite Sci-Fi movie?
2001: A Space Odyssey
go ahead, make my day (no, really)
inception - The movie, explained through C code →
thechangelog:
I’ll be honest: this is one of the cooler things I’ve seen recently:
/*
* Create separate threads for the main protagonists involved in the inception
*/
static void *inception(void *unused)
{
struct sched_param param = {.sched_priority = 99 };
int policy = SCHED_OTHER;
if(!getuid()
||
!geteuid())
{
output("Setting policy to real time...
A Smarter Planet: Book excerpt: Educating Watson -... →
smarterplanet:
Book excerpt: Educating Watson - Stephen Baker
FEBRUARY 2011 • Stephen Baker In 2007, IBM computer scientist David Ferrucci and his team embarked on the challenge of building a computer that could take on—and beat—the two best players of the popular US TV quiz show Jeopardy!, a trivia game…
Tell the Texas Board of Education: End the War on... →
10102323454577 is the smallest 14-digit prime... →
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient...”
– Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)
“I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with...”
– Bertrand Arthur William Russell
(via scienceisbeauty)
Read dogs: nonjudgmental greyhounds that listen to... →
Inspired by an American scheme, a primary school in Staffordshire, England is using “read dogs” — specially trained greyhounds that listen patiently and nonjudgmentally while small children read aloud to them.
