I’d like to talk to someone who remembers going to high school with Brian Tamaki. I want to know if he was bullied ( Read more... )

I like to collect questions that imply the wrong answer. Many of them are quite well known, for example:
What animal are the Canary Islands named after?
How long did the Hundred Years War last?
How long is Ninety Mile Beach?

Here's one that may not be new, but was new to me: Which is heavier, a pound of gold or a pound of feathers?

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One of the things that distinguishes a human intelligence from a computer is that we can have degrees of belief.  A computer is binary, it either believes something or it doesn't.  But humans can believe something just a little bit, we can have opinions of the form "Right now I'm tending towards thinking x" or "I'm pretty sure that y".  And we can ( Read more... )

Today is the last day for public submissions on the Electoral Finance BillThis is the Bill that creates a licensing regime for political speech ( Read more... )

Hmm, that was a new experience.  Just saw an episode of a New Zealand comedy TV show... starring a large number of ex-Shortland Streeters... and I can only assume that someone at New Zealand On Air neglected to crank the "suck" knob to 11.  It was called Serial Killers.

I had never heard of this show before tonight.  poing_critter was just randomly channel ( Read more... )

Help!  I have run out of options here, I'm hoping one of you has some idea what could be causing this ( Read more... )

One exam down and passed!  I am now MCP closer to my goal of having more letters after my name than I have in it.  (And I don't just mean "Alasatyr".  I mean my proper name, first and last ( Read more... )

Here's a somewhat high-level geek litmus test. Is this funny?

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"
KTHXBYE

If you just sniggered, then go to http://lolcode.com immediately.

I had the best out-of-context religious quote *ever* used on me yesterday.

So I had been working out with starfirenz, doing a bit of boxing with bag and focus pads.  We were at the cool-down stretches part of the session.  She started doing a shoulder stretch that, from the point of view of a heterosexual male, did some rather interesting things to the ( Read more... )

Coming to you from the same deranged mutant who brought us the "Meow" comic, here is some new linky goodness:
Phone counselling with a being from another reality!

I can foresee a time when this comforting philosophy will be of great assistance to me when dealing with stress and anxiety.  Other people's stress and anxiety, that is.