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Shared by 100rabh™ (0) Aaron Davies (4) ab_aditya (2) achal (1) Adam (0) adam (152) adamconner7 (13) Aerial (10) Ahsan Navid Hussain (12) Alex (5) Alex Lomas (3) altblue (2) alyska (1) Andrei Neculau (0) Andrew Ferguson (0) Andrew Kotalik (1) Andrey Ivanov (0) andronin (0) ani625 (19) Army of Gnomes (16) Atilano S. (5) Avi (124) Azeem (19) Bikran Sandhu (6) Bill (2) BiSScuiTT (0) Blaenk Denum (6) Bolsoman (2) Brandon (5) Brian Veverka (5) cbsmith (9) Chris (19) chris (0) Chris Olstrom (2) Chuck Lawson (1) Chung (10) Clint Maher (96) Crutis (2) cw360 (0) D-Arb (0) Damir (0) Damon (0) Daniel (15) Daniel (59) Danny (0) darkeye11547 (10) Datch (2) Dave Keffler (20) David (1) Dennis Gonzales (4) Denubis (2) Derrik (3) dH (19) Divya Mistry (0) Dominic Foster (83) Dr. Azrael Tod (23) Dre (1) Drew Olanoff (14) dvd (0) Eli (0) Emmanuele (1) Erik (1) Ethan (0) Etienne Tremblay (2) Frank (2) Franklin (1) Friar-Zero (9) Gandhi (1) Gavin (0) George Brickner (32) Goyal (0) Grant (2) guy (59) haggaret (11) Harshul (0) ios (0) issa (5) Istvan (0) Jakob (24) James (1) Jan (0) Jason Joo (2) Jeff (5) Jenner (2) Jeremiah (6) Jeremy Marx (0) Jessica (0) JesusDQ (0) JiM (10) Jim Graham (0) Joao Azevedo (0) Joe (4) Joe Thackery (0) John (9) John (1) John Boitnott (42) John Rust (5) JohnTheJohnMan (4) Jojo (2) Jon (1) Jonnie (2) josece (7) Joseph Matthew McCullough (4) Justin Yost (6) Karin (2) Kimme Utsi (8) kmohr25 (10) Kraki (20) Kunal (0) Lance (123) Lars Juel Nielsen / Ebi (0) Leena (227) LJF Wolffe (1) Louis Rossouw (6) LuisManson (10) Luke G (0) Lullis (10) mac (6) Marc Ashwell (2) Mark (10) Mark Trapp (17) Marko Sultsing (2) Martin Eberhardt (2) Matt Allen (0) Matt L. (3) Mattia (2) Mauro Martini (3) miasarmento (23) Michael (0) Michael Johnson (1) Michael Mior (17) Mihalcea Razvan (43) Mike (3) Mike (0) Mike Aizatsky (0) mikehillwig (5) Misa (3) Mitch (3) mjc (11) Mohamed Amine (84) Mr. BabyMan (49) Nate Pilling (3) Nathaniel Dean (2) neal (61) neeke (9) Neil Carpenter (0) Neil Saunders (1) nervioso (11) nesh thompson (9) Nicolas Figueroa (0) Nihar (2) Nikki (20) norti (16) Oscar Alcala (0) Pat (3) Patrick Binder (0) Patrick Tomas (0) Paul Sharrock (3) Paulino (1) peteresch (0) phillprice (6) philos (7) Plasmie (3) Pramod (11) Puck (0) Punning Pundit (17) Ramkumar R. Aiyengar (1) Raoul (23) redbaks (1) Redrum (1) Richard (14) Rick Butterfield (2) Ritu (18) Rob (19) robdiana (24) Rohith (1) rony john (47) Roshni (2) rushabh doshi (0) Russell McCormack (5) ryan.capote (13) ryanc (0) Samantha (6) Sandaruwan (3) Sandesh Devaraju (0) schauba (22) ScorpFromHell (0) Scott Warren (1) Sean (5) Sean Rasmussen (31) silpol (3) SiRGt (4) Solon (3) Spencer (1) SSDTyphon (3) Stacey B. (4) Steve (1) Steve (18) Steven Perez (35) Stuart Gibson (2) stvalentine (51) Sun Tzu (186) swined (4) t94xr (0) Tal Siach (51) Tanath (19) Tanka (2) terry (5) The Bat (0) thefinn93☺ (0) thefluffanutta (3) Thomas Paine (3) tim (0) Tim (24) Tim Bennett (0) Titus Ferguson (0) toco (21) Todd Eddy (3) Tom (0) Tor Erling (3) Tsudohnimh (15) Tudor Bosman (1) tuli0 (2) Ubqtous (1) Venci (0) Victor Barrera (179) vim (22) Vinuth (0) Wayne (6) Whiz (0) wiktar (0) wkelly (7) wolfger (3) xrx (6) Yada (0) Yatin Vadhia (89) yuan yong (0) Yuvi (11) Zak M. (185) ziizii (0) Zim (0) Zoram (8)Explore read 13 notes- ani625 said: Mythbusters ftw!
- Bolsoman said: I mythbusters sono grandiosi!
- achal said: absolutely killer!
- Todd Eddy said: told ya it was solar flares
- Kunal said: "that was mean", but totally hilarious :)
- Gavin said: I'd pay to see mythbusters bust the lhc.
- wiktar said: Я тоже так частенько поступаю :)
- Dre said: LOL! Poor Mythbusters. I wonder how they will simulate this. Ha ha ha!
- Rohith said: @satya you bloody asses aren't the only people on my greader friend's list There's my thought :P
- Kraki said: brilliant!
- mjc said: Hahahahahaha
- haggaret said: Like Dave said - Awesome!
- andronin said: XKCD on keeping Mythbuster on TV
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Supermodels and curves (of an entirely different kind) (1)
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StyleCrave has a post on the supermodels who made the most money last year. Three thoughts flashed into my head when saw it: 1. Hawt! 2. Actually, more anorexic than hot. Ugh. 3. Zipf's law! Of course, I had no choice but to fire up a spreadsheet and see for myself :-)I did expect what you see in the graph, but it's still creepy how well it fits. Pretty much the only deviants from the ...Shared by Sandesh Devaraju (0)Contribute comment -
Happy Birthday, Dear Turing Machine (1)
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Well, happy belated birthday. November 18th was the 71st anniversary of the publication of Turing’s seminal paper, “On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem“. As described on Wikipedia: In mathematics, the Entscheidungsproblem (German for ‘decision problem‘) is a challenge posed by David Hilbert in 1928. The Entscheidungsproblem asks for an algorithm that will take as input a description of a formal language and a mathematical statement in the language and produce as output ...Shared by Sandesh Devaraju (0)Contribute comment -
dear audio diary! this afternoon was that library thing, but this EVENING found me playing paddycake with a monkey. nice. (8)
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about - archive - cast - comments - sexy exciting merchandise - messageboard - search - reader art - links if you're buying dinosaur comics stuff for your sweetie, and she doesn't live in the US or Canada, you should order by November 30th in order to get Christmas delivery! Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 November 21st, 2008: Thanks to everyone who emailed me the Mega Man ...Shared by Chung (10) fernandop (1) Graham (3) Kris (11) Matthew (2) Nathan (0) Sandesh Devaraju (0) Will Robinson (0)- Graham said: Not found in most library job postings: must be skilled in protecting libraries from being eaten by dinosaurs.
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Secrets from the Future (1)
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One of my crypto students pointed me to the "Nerdcore Hip-Hop" group MC Frontalot. Here's a trailer for their tribute film, Nerdcore Rising. You can download their song Secrets from the Future that makes a good point about the life of crypto. From the (slightly explicit) lyrics Best of all, your secret: nothing extant could extract it. By 2025 a children's Speak & Spell could crack it. You can't hide secrets from the future with ...Shared by Sandesh Devaraju (0)Contribute comment -
Oh, Ted… (3)
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the internets will miss you so! I just the other day got, an internet ...Contribute comment -
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My one big brush with celebrity since moving to LA came over a year ago. I was contacted by Brad Grossman, cultural attaché to Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment. (The position of “cultural attaché to Brian Grazer” is sufficiently interesting the search for Brad’s replacement after he eventually left became the basis for an article in The New Yorker.) Grazer is one of the biggest producers in Hollywood — he’s the partner of Ron Howard, ...Shared by Bruce Cordell (0) Sandesh Devaraju (0)- Bruce Cordell said: Looking forward to seeing less movies like the Core and Armageddon.
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Randall Munroe and the Size of the Observable Universe (1)
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Randall Munroe of the fabulous webcomic xkcd has a great logarithmic height poster showing the size of everything from folks all the way up through the edge of the Solar System, on to the radius of the observable Universe. As a logarithmic plot, each gap of the same size vertically on the plot represents a doubling of the distance from the surface of the Earth; this is why he can show things of such vastly ...Shared by Sandesh Devaraju (0)Contribute comment -
Congrats to Tika and Welcome to the Lucene Stack! (2)
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Congratulations to Apache Tika (nevermind the incubator address, it’s still in the process of migrating) for graduating from Incubation! And welcome to the Lucene project! Tika is a content extraction framework that wraps many other content extraction libraries such as PDFBox, POI, and others into a single, easy to use framework that makes it easy to add extracted content to Lucene, Solr and any other text application. This is something many of us do whenever ...Shared by Sandesh Devaraju (0) Stuart (2)Contribute comment -
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App Engine Fan: Last month, I wrote I would not post the sql connector's source code until it was a little more functional. Guess what? I changed my mind: you can find all the code at http://code.googl.... From the code.google.com project page: This is a module that will allow you to run Google's App Engine development server with an SQLite backend. The concept is intended to be generic enough that other databases (mysql, SQL Server, ...Shared by Sandesh Devaraju (0)Contribute comment -
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This is the biggest map I've been able to make of Second Life (abusing the Mappa Novus tile server, sorry about that) without hitting the image size limit in ScreenGrab. Click through the thumbnail for the 13MB version, or try this dynamic map. There's also an official version of the map API [documentation], but this version seems to show a smaller section of the world:Shared by Sandesh Devaraju (0)Contribute comment - iCombinator : Hacker News (1)
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onabout - archive - cast - comments - sexy exciting merchandise - messageboard - search - reader art - links Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 November 10th, 2008: Alex pointed me towards this story of two people who found money in the walls of a house, couldn't agree on how to split it, and so both ended up with pretty much nothing. It is the ultimatum game ...Shared by Andrew (0) Crutcher D (9) James (0) Jordan T-H (1) Joseph Matthew McCullough (4) Kris (11) Matthew Lafferty (3) Nathan (0) Richard (3) Sandesh Devaraju (0) Todd (12) Torgny Bjers (0)
- Todd said: BWAHAHA.ALT TEXT people. ALT. TEXT.
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I love the BBC: A North East writer has been given a grant of £2,000 to use sheep to create random poems, which also utilise the deepest workings of the universe. The money has been provided by Northern Arts for Valerie Laws to create a new form of “random” literature. Each of the animals has a word from a poem written on their backs and as they wander about the words take a new poetic ...Shared by ChrisLeonard (4) Sandesh Devaraju (0)Contribute comment -
Comic: The Realness Gradient (12)
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New Comic : The Realness GradientShared by Blaise Alleyne (20) Chimpadink (0) Chris Olstrom (2) Damon (0) Dan N. (0) hank (0) James (0) Joseph Matthew McCullough (4) rOckY (27) Sandesh Devaraju (0) The Bat (0) Yerameyahu (19)- Dan N. said: maybe the nyquil is hitting me, but I thought this was pretty funny
- Damon said: But does the sword purr like a kitten while ripping zombies in half? Yeah. Didn't think so.
- Sandesh Devaraju said: Gotta get me the new Gears Of War
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Bradley Effect: R.I.P. (1)
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by David Epstein OK, so I stayed up entering all the data by hand just to answer one question: what was the final word on the Bradley Effect I've had to discuss about a million times in the past few weeks. The answer is: nada. I took the last polling projections from 538.com and compared them to the final results from the election, state by state. These numbers don't include Alaska or Hawaii, which aren't ...Shared by Sandesh Devaraju (0)Contribute comment -
Election 2008: what really happened | Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State (13)
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After a quick look at the election results and exit polls (from www.cnn.com), some thoughts: 1. The election was pretty close. Obama won by about 5% of the vote, consistent with the latest polls and consistent with his forecast vote based on forecasts based on the economy. 2. As with previous Republican candidates, McCain did better among the rich than the poor: But the pattern has changed among the highest-income categories: 3. The gap between ...Shared by dst (1) Edmundo (0) Felipe G (0) Jacob Christensen (15) K. M. Lawson (0) lionel lindemann (36) Mark Jensen (0) Oneiros (12) Piaw (14) Sandesh Devaraju (0) Snowmit (1) Stephen H. Ensley (0) Tibet Sprague (0)- Snowmit said: This is really interesting, especially the chart that subdivides the very rich.
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The California State Supreme Court has determine that marriage laws that don't include homosexuals are incompatible with the state constitution.The electorate has declared that marriage laws that do include homosexuals are incompatible with the state constitution.The logical conclusion is that all marriage laws are incompatible with the state constitution and that all California marriages are henceforth dissolved.Welcome to your new freedom.Shared by Radu (0) Sandesh Devaraju (0)Contribute comment -
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If you do find yourself reanimated in a zombie state after having been recently buried, you will hopefully be lucky enough to have been buried with Walter J. McKnight’s 1899 “electric device for indicating the awakening of persons buried alive,” U.S. Patent N°. 652934.Shared by Sandesh Devaraju (0)Contribute comment
