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"What happens when you touch the monkey?"

Comic-Sans Physics cannot be taken seriously.

I'm sure this would be do-able at a lower resolution... You'd have to be careful with cameras trying to auto-wind your "film" though.

While it's painful when the bubble pops, it does serve to clean out all the shit that shouldn't have been funded in the first place.

RIP Rumelhart. His 1986 book got me into programming neural networks.

Aren't all LCDs transparent? Are they demoing anything more than an LCD without a backlight?

Fuck you I would.

I don't want a green energy solution that requires lots and lots of new high-paying jobs. Why not? Think about where the money will come from to pay for them. Money that will not b…

Almost this. $2870.00 * 1.15 = $3300.50 $3300.50 (We have a 15% sales tax that also applies to items ordered from overseas over a certain threshold)

My GeoNet RSS feed has been going nuts with all the aftershocks.

Argh... all this makes my head hurt. Nowadays it seems silly to have to have 3rd party plugins for simple audio/video. HTML5 is good for that. Then we have a markup language for re…

We did it with our rail network.

I don't think you understand how things work down here. - The current government will build this at a cost to the taxpayer of (say) $300m. - The next government will sell it for $1…

My boss is one of the people behind the Pacific Fibre project. I can't wait, but it's still a few years away. NZ is stuck in the position of having a fair amount of international b…

It scares me when people with power over things have very little understanding of those things.

When I talk to people about it, there seems to be a general apathy around the privacy aspects. Most are of the opinion "why would someone other than my friends be interested in me …

True, but also consider how those two sites evolved. When I post a tweet, I know that it is essentially the same as me taking out an ad in the paper or shouting it at people in the…