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i did something like it 6-7 years ago with friendster when it got 'who looked at me' new feature then. i scrapped million ids of teenagers to below-age-30 women. my friend list wen…

ember -- flame that burns bugs

there is trend in the 'key cause of cancer' down in the article, throat and colon cancer follow power distribution, while breat cancer kinda follows uniform dist for breast cancer:…

i find it interesting that 'meat' is not written (thus not searchable) in the main article (it's down there in 'key causes of cancer' as icon) FTA (scroll down): Colorectal / Bowel…

what happens when luxury becomes comodity?

i'm actually switching to archlinux after using mint for a year or so

or what if there exist many goods with same unique barcode, scattered around the world. this requires a mean to identify where the unique good is (if it exists at all). would rfid …

for you who don't have flash and don't feel like clicking to download, you can download an xml format file from http://metated.petarmaric.com/metalinks/TED-talks-grouped-by... then…

Can OpenBSD use Android USB tether? (I use Android Wifi Tether but my milestone battery runs too hot)

of the three countries that have highest (and surprisingly parallel) slope: japan, south kore, mexico ... it suggests that #visit correlates with LE ... and health coverage is unim…

the graph gives an important ratio that's hard to capture in scatter plot age/cost (the slope) also, how do you identify your datapoints in scatter-plot neatly? to me this graph gi…

it's because the y axis is linear ... i don't sense any overdoing

i always ask myself, "would woz (or any other heroes) better off using these luxuries 'back then' when he first did apple ?"

i wrote about masturbation back in high school. i got 4/10 mark with a big red X across the page corners :D

your china emperor story only suggests that the parent post's averaging scoring scheme consist of reviewers who dream about a 'test-taker' and then give a score (repeat as many as …

using chickenfoot in firefox: //begin include('~/jquery/jquery.js'); b=new Button('hide comment heads', function() { $('.comhead').hide(); }); insert(after('add comment button'), b…

these great doers who shape the world don't seem to like unit testing. i'll follow them, at least because they are smarter than those bloggers.

0) no test is perfect

car insurance doesn't automagically make you accident-proof. driving defensively is a better approach -- you probably will never need insurance. that's why insurance companies give…

i'm delighted to see that solidworks (cheap) was used while other unis were still using pro-e/i-deas/catias (expensive) maybe it's a stretch to say that schools which use cheaper, …

activating from preferences doesn't always work, i ended up installing tightvncserver. eventually i'm frustrated with ubuntu (i needed to use bluetooth) and goes back to openbsd. b…

no have you read the china study yet? if you haven't, please restrain from commenting, thx

i'm more impressed with how much conflicting misinformations floating around while seemingly scientific claims like x improves y are abundant. sadly we don't often see the %quantit…

no discussion about cancer is complete without mentioning "the china study" by Collin Campbell conclusion? eat whole food, plant-based diet and we don't need labels like vegetarian…

i used math notations when i applied to grad school something like ... there exist such that bla result? i got in and studied there