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European Union will introduce standardized cellphone chargers in 2010. Finally somebody cares about people like me who always lose phone chargers! They are planning to do the same thing with laptop chargers by 2012. Way to go!
С 2010 года в Евросоюзе вводится единый стандарт на зарядные устройства для мобильников. Наконец-то они позаботились о рас ( Read more... ) -
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Tried working in R for the first time. It took me 20 minutes to export an SPSS dataset (in csv format) into R and compute mean and SD on one variable. It turned out that in R it's hard to deal with missing values ( Read more... ) -
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Интересная история с красителем кармин. Этот краситель известен с древних времён и используется в промышленности для получения красного цвета. Кармин вырабатывают из насекомых-червецов. Поскольку этот краситель является полностью натуральным, он широко используется в пищевой промышленности, например, для придания розоватого оттенка йогуртам и ( Read more... ) -
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God damn you people! How am I supposed to sleep now?
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Woman seeks Man for Manly Duties
Check this hilarious ad out (it comes from the Best of Craigslist collection)
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/cin/1013919633.html
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I just learned that Jeffery Amherst, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in North America, started a biological warfare against Native Americans in late 18th century in a course of the French and Indian war. He ordered his subordinate to contaminate blankets with smallpox and then give them to Native Americans as gifts. Since Native Americans ( Read more... ) -
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Finally! Youtube started posting full-length movies online in decent quality! There are only 300 or so movies so far, but some of them are pretty decent, like Hercules in New York (1970) - one of the first movies starring the Governor of California aka Arnold Strong (-:http://www.youtube.com -
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Оказывается, можно вполне эффективно повторять матанализ, слушая в пол уха видеолекции на youtube ( Read more... )
