The state of computing
When I write bad software you don’t get your web pages. When other people write bad software people can die, as Larry O’Brien notes in “Computers Suck”:
Today, during my 692nd hour SCUBA diving, my life was jeopardized by a computer malfunction. I was trying out a new piece of equipment, an air-integrated diving computer, that [...]
Mars farts
Methane on Mars could signal life
I’m finding Mars fascinating lately, mainly because the rate of discovery in the past week has outpaced all previous Martian discovery in the past decade. In recent news: Mars has farts:
Methane has been found in the Martian atmosphere which scientists say could be a sign that life exists today on [...]
Mars: Salty
Mars had a shallow pool of briny water on its surface long ago, NASA said Tuesday in announcing what could be the strongest evidence yet that the now-dry Red Planet was once hospitable to life.
The space agency’s scientists announced earlier this month that the Opportunity rover found evidence of water in Mars’ distant past. But [...]
NASA: “Stay tuned”
NASA will announce another “major scientific finding” from its Mars rover Opportunity Tuesday, according to a report.
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“This is the major announcement of the two,” spokesman Don Savage said.
- NASA To Make New ‘Major’ Mars Announcement
If evidence of water was the minor announcement then this ought to be interesting.
Education is for idiots
Down in Georgia the movement to abolish all practical education is well underway. First came literature, then science, and now, once again, literature because as we all know the thing that’s really fucking up their kids is books - them damned ideas what been put into print: Christians Try To Censor Georgia School’s Reading List
Three [...]
Are you truly devout?
This whole article, Gibson Planning Jewish Movie, is gold but this line stands out:
…and jewelry items such as “The Passion Nail Pendant” have become fashion statements for fervent Christians.
A pendant??? C’mon, ff you were truly devout you’d wear that nail through your palm.
Apple’s Cocoa docs updated
Apple has updated it’s Cocoa docs. Change list available at: Cocoa Documentation Revision List.
Also very useful: the complete Reference Library List.
LOL link madness
Courtesy of Adina: Lol.
This will bake your noodle
This is quite possibly the best article on n-dimensional cosmology I’ve ever read, not because I have any idea what he’s talking about because I don’t really, nor will you (no offense intended, neither does the author as he readily admits) but because it’s extremely well written, funny, and actually informative.
Michael Moyer delves into the [...]
iPod: a deadly weapon
Must have been the 40 Gig model:
A Memphis woman was arrested and charged with first-degree murder after she bludgeoned her boyfriend to death with an iPod.
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According to law officers, Mathers was hysterical when police arrived and told them that she killed her boyfriend only after he accused her of illegally downloading music and erased about [...]