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There was a thread on HN some time ago and I saved this link, which has some instructions on where to find the data and a description of the format. ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/dat…

I always thought that the Strunk and White was about style - it's up to the reader to decide whether it's good advice or not - but to call it clueless is just wrong. My English imp…

It should be in the vicinity of http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&q=-77.733333,162.166667&...

There is a book that has some of the same questions, and a lot more. It's "How would you move Mount Fuji" by William Poundstone ( http://www.amazon.com/Would-Move-Mount-Microsofts-…

The layout is neat, but the purpose of the site is not obvious at first. Is it a review site? A shopping site? It's only after clicking around a bit that one can understand what th…

It is a derivative of oCaml and Haskell, but it's also a multi-paradigm language that borrows from C# and Python. It has elements of imperative and OO. I don't know if it really is…

Accoring to this article, the income/home price ratio has gone 1950 -> 2.21 1960 -> 2.11 1975 -> 3.15 2008 -> 4.40 With housing bubble and all, it seems that this is part of a long…

He has corrected it to "infinite loop" now.

There is a vast difference between Windows 95 and Windows 7.

As an amateur photographer, I have often noticed how the best nature images are often of curves, or other geometrical shapes with some amount of symmetry. Lines that converge to th…

They complain about lack of video, but I have to imagine that holding up this object to take pictures or record video would be quite awkward. It is a large object. It would look ki…

it’s not hard to imagine Apple doing their best to phase out the Macintosh in the next decade, just as they phased out OS 9 I completely disagree. There's a need for high end machi…

Depends on what you mean by "normal"... However, now that the me-too effect is wearing off, it does seem like its use has become more esoteric and "exclusionary", as the author wri…

There are also dead links on the other images. I really wanted to know more. Pity.

Cool. It looks like it would be a big strain on the neck, having to hold your head up like that, but on the other hand, it's only for short flights... But the real questions is: ho…

In IE7, the CSS is being completely ignored and the page does not work (Note: I am behind a proxy, it might have something to do with it). It works with Firefox. Also, I know of a …

The website probably needs a redesign for various reasons, but in the meantime you should know that in IE7, the text in the features page is partially hidden by the blocks on the r…

My sentiments exactly. Thank you for expressing it so well. If I could upvote your comment more than once I would.