Ok, warning. This post is blatantly callous and perhaps veers into sexist territory toward the end, but I think a point has to be made here. I read stories like these and just can’t figure it out. Three girls drown when they drive their Jeep into a pond. They have enough clarity and time to […]
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Like the author of this website, I too have dreamed of the day I had enough time and skillz to build an automated sentry gun. Ever since I saw that scene in Aliens with these automated weapons, I thought it would be pretty sweet to mount a high powered BB gun on a tracking platform […]
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As I stood there at the cash register (a PC running POS software), I noticed an upturned napkin with some writing on it. I couldn’t believe that someone (probably the manager) had written down not only the username and password (clearly marked with labels USERNAME and PASSWORD) but also the site those credentials were used […]
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I always thought the fashion industry was quite strange, but this takes the cake. Hmm, maybe I shouldn’t mention food.
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Every once in a while I have to do an unusual join in SQL and I can’t exactly remember what join type to use. I found this blog post and I think it perfectly visualizes the different types of joins, without a lot of text and fluff. Plus it references pirates and ninjas. What more […]
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Apparently, clean smells promote moral behavior. From ScienceDaily: People are unconsciously fairer and more generous when they are in clean-smelling environments, according to a soon-to-be published study led by a Brigham Young University professor. The research found a dramatic improvement in ethical behavior with just a few spritzes of citrus-scented Windex. Of course, I immediately […]
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From BoingBoing: Researchers have identified the pathway in the brain that causes cognitive impairment when we haven’t gotten enough sleep. In a new study, Penn State biologists and neuroscientists found that when mice were deprived of sleep, a particular enzyme built up in the brain’s hippocampus. The hippocampus is the region of the brain linked […]
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For all those classic read jersey moments in the original Star Trek series, someone has created a nice little jingle and clip montage. The music gets annoying after a while, but the video clips perfectly illustrate just how unlucky it was to cast as a “redshirt”.
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“The FBI today is announcing a rapid DNA initiative,” said Louis Grever, executive assistant director of the FBI’s science and technology branch, during his keynote presentation at the Biometric Consortium Conference in Tampa. The FBI is expanding beyond its traditional fingerprint collection practices to develop a new biometrics system that will include DNA records, 3-D […]
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In this article “More women than men dismissed from military for being gay” about the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, the author (Adam Levine) is basically saying the military is being unfair to women. The article never states this outright, but even the title is written in such a way that is trying to […]
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