May 2011
12 posts
Microsoft has received five times more income from... →
What should I do about FunnyJunk.com? (via Google... →
Extended Mind (via Google Reader) →
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via Kevin Kelly)
“The world’s biggest problem is that not enough people are working on the world’s...”
– Max Marmer, Student of Life, January, 2011 (via Kevin Kelly)
“The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether...”
– Edsger W. Dijkstra (via Kevin Kelly, http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/05/found_quotes_7.php )
Zero tolerance for print →
Feature Tablets →
Feature Tablets →
Unintended humour by committee
(Or “The joy of compromise.”)
There is a time notation of Coordinated Universal Time, which is similar to Greenwich Mean Time but more accurate. (It is measured by atomic clocks, dealing with the additional “leap second” that gets added roughly once every 19 months, because the rotation of the earth isn’t as accurate as the atomic clocks that measure International...
Hard work vs. Long work →
Google and Aperture Science
I’ve just finished the single player storyline of Portal 2. I’ll write more about it when a) I’ve found the time and b) I’ve figured out how to talk about how great the game is without talking about what happens in the game and spoiling it for anyone who hasn’t played it (suffice to say that you should play Portal, then Portal 2 as a matter of priority if you have any...
