Yucaipa & Goleta Fires Continue to Burn (1)
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Three residents watch as a brush fire burns out of control in the Santa Ynez Mountains near Goleta, Calif. on Wednesday, July 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg) As thousands of fires burn statewide, most all in Northern California, two have hit in or near Southern California. The Ridge Fire in Yucaipa began yesterday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. and quickly burned 100 acres within the fire couple hours. As of 6:00 a.m., the fire grew to ...
Porn, Stimuli, and the Lawn of Unintended Consequences [Mike the Mad Biologist] (1)
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Let us give Levitt another chance! [Greg Laden's Blog] (1)
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Many of you commented that Steven Levitt's presentation at TED about the car seats was not exactly a wonderful piece of work. Cephyn pointed out that Levitt acknowledged this in his NYT spot. So let's look at an older TED talk by Levitt and get a better taste in our mouths. Hopefully. Freakonomics author Steven Levitt presents new data on the finances of drug dealing. Contrary to popular myth, he says, being a street-corner crack ...
Old Scientists Are Conservative [The Frontal Cortex] (1)
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The ideological swings of scientists between age-groups is striking: What do you think explains this shift? And what other differences do you notice between young and old scientists? (I realize all such statements will be absurd over-generalizations, but that's the point.) Update: See Razib for a bunch more figures. Read the comments on this post...
Slaves to The Process (41)
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At large, multinational companies, change is slow because of The Process. Not that Matt had any major problems with The Process — he knew what he was getting into when he started his job. A change begets meetings, which beget approvals, which beget forms that have to be signed in triple-triplicate, which beget more meetings, and maybe after a month or two you will have successfully added a column to a report. All of Initrode ...
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Process for Process. Gotta Love it!
AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet (21)
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Slimey anti-virus provider AVG is spamming the internet with deceptive traffic pretending to be Internet Explorer. Essentially, users of the software automatically pre-crawl search results, which is bad, but they do so with an intentionally generic user agent. This is flooding websites with meaningless traffic (on Slashdot, we're seeing them as like 6% of our page traffic now). Best of all, they change their UA to avoid being filtered by websites who are seeing massive ...
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Podcast Mike said:
Really? How do we disable this? I don't want the hit on my internet connection (or anyone else's).
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Jason Matthews said:
it's really too bad AVG went in the wrong like this. they used to have a good product, but after the horrible performance of the latest version and now this... i'll never use them again.
Rock Band 2 Set List Leaks All Over the Interwebs (1)
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Yesterday, we had the first set list leak, which came from a screen capture as a section of Rock Band 2 was being shown on G4TV. The set list from that list includes the following songs: Panic Attack - (I’m guessing) Finger Eleven Chop Suey - System of a Down Give It Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers Everlong - Foo Fighters Kids in America - Kim Wilde Ace of Spades - Motorhead Hello There ...
Google Middle Ages (2)
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While I was working on a side project, Google served me this ad:Take a look at the middle line item. Pretty awesome, eh? One of history's oldest mysteries solved by Google Ads. Not only is King Arthur real, he lives somewhere in the US, and he's got a phone.
Solar Power From Home Curtains (10)
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kaliann writes "With the push for more sustainable energy, easy DIY kits for alternative energy sources are likely to become quite popular in the coming years. We may see some big improvements in our ability to 'green up' if these photovoltaic curtains become widely available."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Sex, Nerds, and Entitlement (2)
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In Should Bad Boys Win, the question arose of whether the legendary "nice guys" who finish last, are actually nice. Several commenters proposed that "nice guys" feel entitled to sex, and are liars. It does appear to me that many older and more bitter nerds do feel entitled to something. This sounds like a turn-off; but according to the seduction community and other repositories of male wisdom such as Richard Feynman, one of the main ...
Oh noes! Hispanics might not support Obama! Except they are (3)
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Consider all the primary-era bullshit spin we heard the first half of this year, and none was more offensive to me than the notion that Latinos wouldn't support Obama because (a) he was black, or (b) they supported Clinton too heavily, or (c) because McCain had a good relationship with that group based on his pre-flip flop support for comprehensive immigration reform, or (d) because that's what the b.s. convention wisdom told them and they ...
Think you’re good at Guitar Hero III? Not as good as this guy! (1)
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Watch and learn, padawan Hero, as record holder Chris Chilke scores a perfect 100% on Dragonforce’s Through the Fire and Flames in Guitar Hero III. That’s on expert. If his goal is to make me look bad at the game, mission accomplished, friend. I didn’t need your help, though, Chris. Everyone already knows I haven’t beaten it on medium. Warning: there is some amount of profanity at the end of the video. Understandably so. Source: ...
Even McCain can't answer the question (6)
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No one can. McCain became visibly angry when I asked him to explain how his Vietnam experience prepared him for the Presidency. "Please," he said, recoiling back in his seat in distaste at the very question. McCain allies Sen. Lindsey Graham stepped in to rescue him. Graham expressed admiration for McCain’s stance on the treatment of detainees in US custody. He became visibly angry because the answer to the question was "it doesn't". Yet now, ...
Rick Reilly Joke of the Week (1)
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Rick Reilly recently signed a 20-year, $480m contract to write articles for ESPN. This is the kind of excellent humor they're getting for their money:In a droll article about athletes going bankrupt, he muses:It's not just NBA players who have the fiscal sense of the Taco Bell Chihuahua.Some questions.1. Why the Taco Bell Chihuahua? Did the Taco Bell Chihuahua famously live large? Did he make it rain in Chihuahua nightclubs? Are beagles famously more thrifty, ...
