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Not true. Links from daringfireball.net to older episodes of the Talk Show are still intact: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/09/30/the-talk-show-61

I bet this will be possible whenever a PC driver for Kinect becomes available: http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/ControllerManip... About a year ago, I was working on a …

You've got to get some statistical mechanics on this list. One would have a very difficult understanding quantum field theory without at least some experience considering phase tra…

Don't you have to give mpg123 an explicit path to an mp3 file? dhun lets you play mp3 files by searching for them, through the Spotlight database.

Anyone who likes this should also check out mpd: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki More work to configure, but also works on Linux. There's a wonderful ncurses int…

Wrong book, dude. You're thinking about Of Mice and Men .

Z bosons decay into a lepton (electron, muon, or tau particle) and its anti-particle. Those decay products pass through a magnetic field and eventually collide with a material that…

Where is Be now?

With known equations, then yes, dimensional analysis is essentially just a form of bookkeeping that helps you verify your math as you go. But once you get into using quantum field …

> Start putting stuff in likely equations where the units work out to the desired answer. Working physicists call this 'dimensional analysis' and it's pretty much the foundational …

I couldn't agree more. Grant money is precious. Instead of spending three or four grad student salaries to pay a programmer a competitive wage, it makes more far more sense to fund…

No longer true. Indiana is mostly observing DST as of a couple of years ago.

Fraternity membership is voluntary. Race isn't. "Frat" is not analogous to a racial slur.

Many retailers tack an extra $1 charge when you use a bank card as a debit card... so I always run it as credit.

Well, if 18 year olds are good soldiers because they aren't fully mature, why not allow 14 year olds to be soldiers? Or 8 year olds for that matter... after all, as African warlord…

I'm so pissed that I upvoted you, now that I've seen your contributions to other threads. But hey, you managed to finally make a comment that didn't call someone gay or disparage g…

Yes, but be careful to stay on Nurse Ratchett's good side.

Yes, the parents of Mitchell Henderson are indeed pussies. It's unbelievable that they could be so thin skinned about a few harmless prank calls... come on, it's only the suicide o…

No. Even though particle physics gets all the media attention, theories like this (and string theory for that matter), are shallow in comparison to statistical mechanics and thermo…

There are two ways you can look at an aphorism such as this "brick wall" business. Either: 1. These words of wisdom are a useful way to motivate myself when things are rough. 2. Th…

Nonsense. You're talking about politicians jumping on a bandwagon that earned them cheap family values points, which is neither surprising, nor indicative of the attitudes of liber…

Yes, but being the market leader is meaningless unless your site actually generates revenue. YouTube's founders are in a nice position now, but as I recall, Google is still saying …