I wonder what would happen if there was a language without superlatives and dichotomy. If instead of being able to say object x has property y, one would have to also state to what extent x embodied y. Instead of 'the cup is red' it would be 'the cup is mostly red' or 'the cup is very red.' Instead of 'men are pigs' it would be 'men are somewhat ( Read more... )

According to a recent survey, IT workers are 32% less likely than workers in other fields to wear clean clothes everday.

:-(

For those of you interested, here is a debate between the founder of Wikipedia and the founder of The Encyclopedia Britanica. It's really interesting reading, especially the discussion at the end. Enjoy.

Here's the debate

I laughed, I cried, I techgasmed so hard I need a cigarette.

Steve Jobs is just that good, even via satellite. And for those of you who didn't follow the keynote live, you have some amazing surprises in store for you, coming very soon.

Vladimir looks at my watch, tells me to show it to Will
"He has a belly dancer in his watch"

Q. What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?
A. A stick.

No more bellydancing, chief!
--Vlad to me

"In a move that has been termed 'positively Orwellian' by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Executive Director Jeff Ruch, George W. Bush is ending public access to research materials at EPA regional libraries without Congressional consent. This all-out effort to impede research and public access is a [loosely] covert operation to ( Read more... )

A senior product manager at Microsoft made an announcement today at a tech conference in Australia "that full HD content shall only be played at the full resolution where only signed drivers are used - only in the 64-bit version of Vista." None of it will play on 32 bit processors. All of you with your 1 year old laptops, the ones that say Centrino ( Read more... )

I never expect people with blond hair to smoke. It always surprises and slightly disappoints me. Oh well. I get over it pretty fast.