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A bit pedantic -- Astley mostly retired from recording his own music by the early nineties but was a prolific song writer. His most famous song he wrote was Celine Dion's "It's All…

NASA requires plutonium-238 for radioisotope power systems for spacecrafts. Plutonium-238 was a by-product of now defunct Cold War–era nuclear weapon factories. Oak Ridge National …

I saw this roll through Twitter the other day: a bot that's as good at detecting toxicity as Google is in 50 lines of code https://twitter.com/toxicitychecker It came from this thr…

"A Tennessee judge has rescinded his controversial program that sought to encourage drug-dependent female and male inmates to cut their jail time by voluntarily agreeing to undergo…

I've sort of switched... DuckDuckGo has !bangs. If you search for "!so javascript", then you just end up on stackoverflow.com with a search term of "javascript". There's dozens (hu…

Lean hogs.

I believe everyone is referencing the index key size length in MySQL. In that case you can get "ERROR 1071 (42000): Specified key was too long; max key length is xxxx bytes" errors…

I used to know IBM'ers who said it stood for "I Be Moving"

Awesome sauce

I'm a co-founder of DigMyData.com mentioned in this article. We are eager for feedback. Drop on by.