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Exactly. So far they've demonstrated nothing more than a camera.

McNulty really wasn't very good at covering up his accent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg_3ZSeHL4g

One Intrade commenter from London claimed he was set up to earn about $20,000 in arbitrage against Betfair. If you expect the manipulation to continue over a period of time (which …

Google doesn't teach your kids the narrative structure against which they measure their own lives.

But what happens once people get used to the new duration of the yellow light? Do they approach it based on what they're used to from all the other yellow lights they've ever seen?…

Given that three people posted a link to the same parody video within three minutes of each other, I'm forced to assume that Adam Curtis is a brilliant filmmaker.

Sued by who? Holders of CRT patents?

I had no idea you could get faculty from another institution to be on your thesis committee. More importantly, I had no idea PhD students could do summer internships to supplement …

What separates Rothko and Pollock from the artists in the link is that other people have tried to capture what they captured, and failed. I never got it until I finally saw other r…

Tell me when they can grow me a new inner ear and cure tinnitus. I want to experience the tranquility of true silence, and I want it from something other than the cold embrace of t…

I think he's referring to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPILhiTJv7E

Does he mean he's writing a book about this experience? I guess it will be like Flowers for Algernon, but inverted.

It's easier than general relativity, is that good enough?

I've been wondering how easily a situation could arise in which an underdog could try something like this on Kickstarter and give up, and end up having done nothing but provide fre…

Am I really in a <1% minority of people who right click site logos to open the main page in a new tab and start a separate browsing path?

More importantly, it explains why both the world and the overlays appear in focus. I have yet to see an explanation for how Project Glass does the same. Apparently it's based on th…

I purchased your fancy new razor but the blade snapped off when I tried to slice Korea in two. I want a refund.

I think that one could be interpreted as merely warped.

I don't think the exclusivity was a long-term strategy, but rather a natural progression from its beginning as a site for Harvard undergrads. It was really useful at providing spec…

"there are good perks (company issued iPhone!)" That sounds like a source of stress right there. If the company gives you a phone I assume it means they own your ass every moment o…

Maybe it would work if you designed a language with structured editing in mind from the start.

Now I'm disturbed by the lack of parens. What about situations where I have one pair of parens exactly contained in another, like in a one-argument defmethod? Edit: Now I see that …

"... they are encouraged to exercise and build up their strength by being given their own gym equipment (pieces of Velcro to which they can anchor themselves in order to stretch an…

That documentary showed pretty well that the MPAA is harsher on films with gay themes, but it wasn't convincing in other areas. There's a good reason that sexual content is more li…

You can see R movies as long as there are no Mormons in your class. Poor Mormons... I bet none of their friends called them for at least a month after the big movie-watching week a…