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Although it isn't exactly off-base to say that this (article/comic?) is an attack on the current state of society, it IS off-base to equate the attack to the "oft-repeated wail tha…

"The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating it…

Learn the shortcuts and remove the toolbars.

Up-voted because I sort of agree: although it's fun to see achievements pop up, and some of these are comical ("I’m Sorry – Created a new Visual Basic Project") some others might e…

Darn, I was planning on having a Submit! button for when I become supreme dictator. Of course I'd have my own website.

That being said, I just pulled some stuff out of my code that I really shouldn't have :) Thought I was going to start a revolution there.

Point taken - but are we talking about "common wisdom" in general, or "common wisdom of what's possible"?

"One of the traps of age is growing to accept the common wisdom of what’s possible and not." Only if you accept it.

Kurzweil's retort falls apart in several places: "It is true that the brain gains a great deal of information by interacting with its environment – it is an adaptive learning syste…

If this comment was meant to be sarcastic then it was expertly executed! BTW, you really don't need a teacher to learn meditation... just sit down, shut up and focus on your breath…

Back in school we used to call them "Think Sticks" in spite of those that called them "Cancer Sticks". In reality I guess they are both, as nicotine does have proven cognitive bene…

I woke up on time this morning.

It's like saying that voting for Nader was taking votes away from John Kerry :P

I found that turning off addons helps a tremendous amount - on both Windows and Linux. Also, 3.6 appears to be much faster. I don't think Chrome is a safe browser.

yup

Just thought that was hilarious.

Furniture porn always reminds me of the scene in Fight Club where Ed Norton is cataloging the furniture in his apartment. Still, I want that chair.

"These technological details are, at their core, indistinguishable from the previous technologies" cough cough

There are too many points on the path where something could go wrong. Given that this is the first time that I am hearing about Google Calendar being a problem, I doubt it's the ac…

"When most of us think about computer programming, we think of typing in lines and lines of code with semicolons and complex syntax. This common perception about computer programmi…