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I've only ever had one TSA agent realize that I didn't have a cartridge razor in my dopp and confiscate my blades. Since that happened (but before I became an enormous beardo), I'v…

Oh man, I can confirm this. I had to take a course of SSRI's last year and my gut-mind was so relaxed and happy on them that I completely lost the sensation of hunger. It was . . .…

The MPEP

It's a rite of passage for some recreational riders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_ride

The Australian Innovation Patent isn't really a patent. When an application is filed a formalities check is completed, but no prior art search is conducted. Also, the inventor and …

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Is this satire? I think it's satire. http://www.tineye.com/search/50f79f0ea3bb24bbe2217c14e27e7b7...

Aimed at fighting Big Brother, or preventing others from implementing the method?

What I'd be very interested in knowing is how many people have decided to get print subscriptions because of the paywall. Doesn't it seem like the digital offerings are priced so t…

improv

I did wonder if the meant Hobson's choice.

Ohh... and just now do I get the joke.

If you log into Public Pair ( http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair ) and look at the prosecution history (tab labeled "Image File Wrapper") you will see that the examiner d…

The problem that I can see with this document is that there's no clear indication of when this document was first made available to the public. I get that the lectures were publish…

I'm not sure that the indep claim covers the way podcasts are delivered nowadays. Claim 1 seems to require a single channel which both provides notification of new content and from…

Have any of your designer friends ever seen an issue of Army Man ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Man )? That was the first thing I thought of when I saw the page. Anyhow, It lo…

I have the same problem! How do you deal with it? Whenever I'm exposed to a new thing I want to learn, I ask if it's something I can and will apply relatively immediately, or somet…

That's a really neat idea. Even just a Flesch-Kincaid score ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch-Kincaid_Readability_Test ) of the dupes responses might be interesting. On a relat…

Well, one of the most interesting things about puzzlers is that a significant (but perhaps still small) proportion of them like making puzzles as well as solving them. If this were…

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Books(In this order, if you know no Ruby): 1. Agile Web Development w Rails 2nd ed. It's available as a pdf direct from the Pragmatic Programmers -. Skip the Pickaxe book for now, …