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A very interesting and enthusiastic talk from Brian “Rock Star” Cox, though you wish he had gone more in-depth on some topics. But reading some of the comments makes you remember, rather sadly, that not everyone can reconcile religion with science.
A very smooth DJ mix by Adultnapper, Audiomatique 2.0 features music from the likes of Trentemøller, Gui Boratto, Martin Eyerer and many more. Starting off with stripped down downtempo far …
…the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a prize-winning water-treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.›› San Francisco may name sewage treatment plant after Bush
I’m one of those guys who has to clean his keyboard and mouse quite regularly (to offset the careless eating and snacking habits while using the computer, but I digress). The washable Belkin mouse looks like a promising piece of equipment that would save me a few cans of compressed air when it comes to ...
Unlike most elderly folk who reminisce about things of the past, Freeman Dyson is one old man who’s got a great vision of the future.
I recently discovered some neat (and not so neat) visual search interfacesThe most impressive (visually speaking) of the lot is Searchme.com — it does the iTunes coverflow thing pretty nicely and neatly in Flash. I love the tiltviewer interface but seeing my search results in that style at Bryns Brain felt a little out-of-place. RedZee ...
Looks like the browser wars are upon us again. With the introduction of Google’s Chrome to the party, I cannot wait to see how the loyalty of Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera users will be tested (and I include myself in there). The IHT has a good write-up on how Google doesn’t actually have ...
Just to clear things up, there’s only one girl in the band Brazilian Girls and none of the band members are Brazilian. Their third album, New York City, is a continuation and refinement of their music style which can be described as an almost freestyle world music, down-tempo, electro-funk, techno-dub mishmash with jazz undertones. The ...
Given his age, John McCain is more likely to have invented the Phonograph or something.
Helvetica looked at Arial and remarked, “You’re ugly”.Arial replied “Well, Aksidenz do happen”What type of diabetes is a graphic designer most likely to get d …
I became the proud owner of a 3rd generation video-enabled iPod Nano last week. While researching armbands for bringing my Nano along for runs, I found a good variety of armbands on the Apple Store but surprisingly, the Griffin Streamline is not listed there. It’s a utilitarian armband that is comfortably adjustable and (very importantly) ...
This must be good fun — getting sudo to insult you.
Orbital’s seminal brown album from 1993 was my first real electronic music purchase 15 years ago. Despite the test of time, my CD has held up and the music has more than just held up. Anyone who grew up in the 90s would have heard the outstanding Halcyon + On + On on some movie ...
Really? He’s blocked it? […] Well, tell him to unblock it.It’s our… song.›› Thom Yorke reacting to the news
I saw the trailer for it long ago and I absolutely loved it. I am so glad they have stuck it on YouTube for everyone to watch. Awesome, awesome illustrations and fantastic animation work.
The single thing that comes close to a magic bullet, in terms of its strong and universal benefits, is exercise.›› An epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health



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