"Inconsolata draws from many inspirations and sources. I was particularly struck by the beauty of Luc(as) de Groot's Consolas, which is his monospaced design for Microsoft's upcoming Vista release."
"In particular, I want to convince you that many of the ways we're attempting to apply categorization to the electronic world are actually a bad fit, because we've adopted habits of mind that are left over from earlier strategies."
"A mixture of online game/street art/social network, Lost is a community of people connected through links written down and left in random places all over the world."
"GIMP plugin called Liquid Rescale is a free, open source frontend to the Liquid Rescale Library, which provides an implementation of the Seam Carving algorithm"
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"But since one generation of Squanders gets the free ride and future generations pay in perpetuity for it, there are -- in economist talk -- some pretty dramatic "intergenerational inequities.""
"Where they could use their deep pockets to make a masterpiece of pant-shitting scariness they instead choose to puff themselves up like syphilitic peacocks."
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"A documentary showing how dangerous artificial sweetner Aspartame is. From its history, to its effects. Aspartame is a toxic food that came into the world as an investment By Donald Rumsfeld..."
"LatencyTOP is a Linux tool for software developers (both kernel and userspace), aimed at identifying where system latency occurs, and what kind of operation/action is causing the latency to happen."
""Toy Chest" collects online or downloadable software tools/thinking toys that humanities students and others without programming skills (but with basic computer and Internet literacy) can use to create interesting projects."
"In reality, pirates are altruists that prevent black-market information economies from forming." / "In a sense, we are all pirates. This is in the nature of our relationship with information."
"Economic science establishes existential laws, of the type: if A, then B. Mises demonstrates that this science asserts that laissez-faire policy leads to peace and higher standards of living for all..."
"If you have created or found iMacros that you think might be useful to others, simply tag them “for:imacros”. We will review the submissions and add the best ones to our collection for all iMacros users to enjoy."
"In his book Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantalize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole, Barber says all this material consumption is holding adulthood at bay and killing the citizen in us all."
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"...the further a family of either race slips behind the average income of nearby households of the same race (becoming too poor to compete in the signaling game), the less it spends on these visible goods."
"He was 16 and had come from Syria. "The nurse shaved our heads and poured hot wax on to remove all the hairs from their roots. Then we were sent for radiation. I myself never had ringworm,""
"In 1951, the director general of the Israeli Health Ministry, Dr. Chaim Sheba flew to America and returned with 7 x-ray machines, supplied ... all » to him by the American army."
"People will want artists to return them to certain periods. They will suffer what I call hyper-nostalgia as they look back to a time when people talked robustly about ideas like democracy."
"Every Sephardi child was to be given 35,000 times the maximum dose of x-rays through his head. For doing so, the American government paid the Israeli government 300 million Israeli liras a year."
"Bhutto, who was assassinated on Thursday, wrote to Blitzer that if anything happened to her, "I would hold (Pakistani President Pervez) Musharraf responsible."
"These Mimeses use look-a-likes of celebrities and public figures to create a photographic or filmic image, which challenges the observers' perception of reality by creating a false reality."
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"6 megapixels- the best compromise between number of pixels and image noise. As shown here: the increase of details with more pixels and the increase of errors if the pixels become too small."
"Environmentalists who favor restriction of lead in electronic circuits point out that the reactor didn't actually explode, and that we shouldn't have nuclear reactors, anyway. I don't find that response very satisfying."
"Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut)..."
"This is a functional, if limited, JPEG decoder. It only decodes grayscale, 8-bit images and is overly sensitive to the options used. I thought that people might like to learn a little about the JPEG standard."
"This is according to the laws of the United States, specifically article six of the constitution," which states that treaties are the supreme law of the land, he said."
"And don't EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle."
"The NSC is chaired, of course, by George W. Bush, whose personal authority is invoked for each and every instance of torture authorized. And, according to Kiriakou as well as others, Bush’s answer is never “no.”"
"I found I could intellectualize pain, which allowed me to take a quantum leap in my tolerance of it. Sometimes, though, the problem was staying in touch with reality enough to keep alive."
"But where Americans have seen defensive behavior, the rest of the world has looked on and seen the most powerful nation in human history acting like a caged animal..."
“Initially when we hook up this brain to a flight simulator, it doesn’t know how to control the aircraft,” "The computational property is actually an emergent property of hundreds or thousands of neurons cooperating to produce the processing power o
"These notes are mostly a reproduction of the 文法ノート sections of the chapters in the textbook, An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese by Akira Miura & Naomi Hanaoka McGloin."
"The /etc/aliases file is a raw data file; the actual aliasing information is placed into a binary format in the /etc/aliasesDB/DB.dir and /etc/aliasesDB/DB.pag files by using the newaliases command."
"Play a game against Shredder 11 on our servers directly in your browser. To enter a move, click on a piece and drag it to the desired square. You can choose between three playing levels. Please note that even on “hard” Shredder doesn’t show his ful
"Finally, the social welfare result that a Windows monopoly is not always worse than a Linux-Windows monopoly was also unexpected. This questions the social desirability of policies aimed at guaranteeing Linux's survival."
"Those who advocate coercive arrangements to obtain Pareto efficiency gains are forced to ignore the revealed preferences of the people involved, and thereby commit a fundamental economic error."
"Even if you regard standardized test results as a useful measure, homework (some versus none, or more versus less) isn’t even correlated with higher scores at these ages."
"School didn't have to train kids in any direct sense to think they should consume nonstop, because it did something even better: it encouraged them not to think at all."
"If children could be cloistered with other children, stripped of responsibility and independence, encouraged to develop only the trivializing emotions of greed, envy, jealousy, and fear, they would never truly grow up."
"I cannot pretend to throw the least light on such abstruse problems. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble to us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic."
"In his book, "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower," William Blum warns of how the media will make anything that smacks of "conspiracy theory" an immediate "object of ridicule"."
"Sacks would later describe his vivid hallucinations of the Concerto as a kind of miracle, in which the music "descended like grace," reminding him of his own "kinetic melody." The song had restored him to himself."
"The "KAGUYA," which is currently undergoing initial functional verification, successfully acquired image data using its onboard high definition TV camera (HDTV)."
"As a seeker I explored themes that manifested along my way: "man is a mystery", "man is a dreamer", "man is a beast", "man is on a stage", "man is a puppet", "man is a robot", "man is a split being"..."
"With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places."
"And there is an element of comedy in seeing the United States going to Beijing to borrow dollars, thus putting our children deeper in debt, to send still more foreign aid to African despots who routinely vote the Chinese line at the United Nations."
"None of Subway’s breads are whole grain. Ammonium sulfate (a fertilizer) is also added. Unfinished sandwiches may be composted. The bread also contains azodicarbonamide."
"HIS THEORY: For each conscious experience, a unique set of neurons in particular brain regions fires in a specific manner. HER THEORY: For each conscious experience, neurons across the brain synchronize into coordinated assemblies, then disband."
"Pornography is thus a form of political theater. It's a medium for confronting audiences with exactly those contents that are exiled from sanctioned speech, mainstream culture and political discourse."
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