Where’d it go!? [x-post from /r/funny]
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#102 – Strong
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Oh man. Sorry….and I’m done ( for now ). Should be another comic up next week.
Normally-respectable news provider the BBC interviews “terrorist puppet?”. WTF, BBC?
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ELI5 “TheRedPill” and its incomprehensible terminology
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A couple of recent posts in /r/bestof (one, two) drew my attention to /r/TheRedPill, which I’d not come across before. I looked at that subreddit… and I still don’t get it.
It’s… something like The Game, right? All that stuff about “easy, foolproof” ways to get laid? But the entire subreddit just talks about red pills and blue pills and other mysterious terms that make it sound more like The Matrix than anything that’ll help you pick up women.
Anybody explain?
The Community Solar System
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We need to talk about TED
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Science, philosophy and technology run on the model of American Idol – as embodied by TED talks – is a recipe for civilisational disaster.
In our culture, talking about the future is sometimes a polite way of saying things about the present that would otherwise be rude or risky.
But have you ever wondered why so little of the future promised in TED talks actually happens? So much potential and enthusiasm, and so little actual change. Are the ideas wrong? Or is the idea about what ideas can do all by themselves wrong?
I write about entanglements of technology and culture, how technologies enable the making of certain worlds, and at the same time how culture structures how those technologies will evolve, this way or that. It’s where philosophy and design intersect.
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Yo dawg, I heard you like gold on your gold on your gold.
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habeas corpus
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Inefficient Rulers
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Golomb Rulers and Costas Arrays.
Social engineering
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GoldieBlox have been in the news (by which I mean the blogs) a lot lately because of their Princess Machine video. In case you missed the memo, GoldieBlox do engineering toys for girls, by which they mean a) they’re pink, and b) they’ve got stories, because girls need everything to have a story. Think I’m…
Visual Cryptography
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How to create perfect secret messages that can be decoded using just your eyes.
Dressing up
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A few months ago now (OK, this post has sat in drafts for a while) when I came to pick my daughter up from nursery I found her wearing a pink ‘fairy skirt’ (something like a tutu). “Her trousers and her spare trousers both got wet and it was the only thing we could find!”…
I’m worried about whatseventhepoint on /r/self
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Posted 3 hours ago; sounds like they could do with some help:
I don’t know what to do anymore. I’ve exhausted any little hope I’d had, and now there’s nothing.
I just want it to be over. By any means necessary.
http://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/1qw4tm/i_feel_like_everything_i_do_is_inherently_stupid/
Why You Should Never Use MongoDB
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Disclaimer: I do not build database engines. I build web applications. I run 4-6 different projects every year, so I build a lot of web applications. I see apps with different requirements and different data storage needs. I’ve deployed most of the data stores you’ve heard about, and a few that you probably haven’t. I’ve picked the wrong…
The story of how the Diaspora social network adopted the hip new database technology without for a moment thinking about whether it was the right database technology.
“We. Are. Carnivore. Period.” (TIL that eating plants, language, and science are destroying the world)
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