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Archive for the ‘Asides’ Category

Make money surfing the net

2007.02.07.

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AGLOCO: is claiming (promising?) to enable you to own the internet. This is what they say: Advertisers, search providers, and online retailers are paying billions to reach you while you surf. How much of that money are you getting? If they will be successful - you might earn some …

Simplicity vs. complexity in design

2007.01.11.

Don Norman: Logic and reason are wonderful virtues, but they are irrelevant in describing human behavior. Trying to prove a point through intelligent, reasonable argumentation is what I call the â??engineerâ??s fallacy.â?? (Also, the economistâ??s fallacy.â??) We have to design for the way people really behave, not as …

Who needs the books?

2007.01.10.

Jon Swift: This guy deserves his pen name - an excellent article about libraries throwing out the boring classic books. You want some names? - Aristotle, Faulkner, Hemingway, Kerouac, Pasternak, Proust, Bronte, Marlowe, Solzhenitsyn, Harper Lee…

Your computer guilty of global warming

2007.01.03.

Localcooling.com: Join the fight against global warming! The CO2 emissions from just 15 computers are equivalent in energy terms to the gas consumption used by one car. Save computer power, your money and the environment with a simple application… Sounds crazy but you can check it out!

Prairie Immigration

2007.01.02.

University of Manitoba: a digitized archive of the prairie immigration experience - you can browse it for hours…

Saddam Hussein is dead

2006.12.29.

Source CBC: Another dictator disappeared. That’s good. Too many people had to die for it to happen - that’s bad.

Women can urinate in standing position

2006.12.22.

Source: It’s not a joke, you can buy the Magic Cone for about 50 cents - it’s called disposable urination funnel but looks like a artificial penis made from cardboard. Have fun!

Another one about the tree

2006.12.15.

The Alberta Spectator: So all those Political Correctness Soldiers have not been fighting for more tolerance, but have actually done the exact opposite: they have been fighting for the “rights” of intolerant bigots from other countries. -

The politically incorrect X-mas tree

2006.12.15.

The rabbi called the removal of the Christmas tree a “terrible thing“. He should tell this directly to the judge that gave the order…

Platonic

2006.12.14.

Is there platonic friendship? Find out here. Good stuff!

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