oh, which reminds me - that Dialog emailed offer? Yeah, well - when people stampede to the offices, they are told that most of the stuff has sold out. It was a con jawb
- drac
I'd think an iPhone-Air would consist of a tin can and a string. No numpad, EVAH (microphone and speaker sold separately)
- drac
damn those con jobs! I googled a few, but gave up when I realized almost all those phones were four to five years old and kind of ass.
- tezcat
gah, drac. you saved me a trip to the dialog opis.
- hnlk
The whole Chinese subplot is hilarious, too. There's a similar thread here, isn't there? Balangoda Man and all that.
- tezcat
I thought that the Balangoda Man thing pointed to when the first folks came here - it was approximately 35,000 years ago - nowhere near old enough to challenge the oldest human
- drac
Indeed. But the "people vaguely sort of evolved out of H. erectus everywhere" argument mentioned in the FA has been applied here. I distinctly remember reading this as written by some doddering local archeo-geezer.
- tezcat
ideonexus: Each generation's scientific neologisms adorn the labels of the next generation's quack cures. - Charles Seife - http://twitter.com/ideonex...
3 hrs later and endless RTs of outrage but not one person has tweeted or blogged about the content of what was said at #TEDxCol. How many retweeting actually heard what was said?
Same thing happened with Arthur C. Clarke, no?
- tezcat
He allegedly liked young lads but I'm can't remember if it was a case of molesting them or if it was consensual. Of course, they might have been too young for them to give consent but wasn't his tastes supposed to be more towards strapping young adolescents rather than little kids?
- Rajit
Grin. I am just saying words. Also when Clarke died I did the whole "Pah, kiddy fiddler" thing and people were offended
- tezcat
The gallery presented a selection of Kannemeyer’s works on paper from The Alphabet of Democracy-series, a new series entitled Cursed Paradise and drawings from recent sketch books; all of which raise extremely uncomfortable questions in the debate about racial stereotypes and South Africa cultural and socio-political landscape. (via Anton... - http://rjt.tumblr.com/post...
Scrobble Swipper is a small Perl script designed to rip all of a last.fm users scrobbles and places them into a cleartext file line by line of: Track, Artist, Timestamp.
- Régis Gaidot
"The Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS), headquartered in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, is a permanent organ of the SCO which serves to promote cooperation of member states against the three evils of terrorism, separatism and extremism."
- minnesotan
from Bookmarklet
*sigh* I hope it works etc. I'm already seeing problems with the fancy new JS engines that everyone seems to be producing. Yes, they're faster - but they deviate from spec in (surprise!) incompatible ways
- drac
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Jayantha Wickramaratne has claimed that several journalists, mostly Sinhalese, were on the payroll of the LTTE and were thickly involved in the insurgency, according to latest investigations. - http://rjt.tumblr.com/post... (via http://friendfeed.com/rjt...)
Should we then look for a third scenario? Alas, the only third best thing that I see is our losing the war and being assimilated. But thank God for small mercies, assimilation preserves lives. After all, the right to life is higher than the right to language and culture and must be respected as such. It is important not to lose sight of this... - http://anuruddha.tumblr.com/post...