Also Ulam Spiral

Dan Gilbert, Harvard psychologist, and one of the scientists behind the data used in the article, made an excellent talk at TED. Definitely worth viewing. Why are we Happy?

My head comes close to exploding every time I hear someone say we evolved from chimps or monkeys. We didn't. We are closely related but we are not descended from them. None of our closest ancestors are alive today, and haven't been for many hundreds of thousands of years. It's questions like "if we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys around?" that make it so hard for me to have an intelligent debate with creationists. I mean seriously, TRY to understand other viewpoints and theories besides your own.

I, for one, measure the success of a country not on its economic or military power, but by the freedoms its people are able to enjoy responsibly. We aren't here on this Earth to make more widgets than the next guy. We're here to enjoy life. A government that dominates its people's time is a government that has failed to protect it's people's freedom to be happy.

That article points out that the Hoover Dam is not in fact connected to the internet. I'm actually surprised by that. Why don't we fix this problem by making sure that all critical systems are not connected?

What the hell? I RTFA and have no idea what this is about. What is a polymino? Guess what? I still think it's a horse.

No, I'm pretty sure it matters whether or not the consumers of the product will have any interest in consuming said product.

I can't believe no one has come up with some stupid sexual double entendre joke about penetration. I thought I knew you /.

As well as the shortest path to borderline homosexual behavior.

They couldn't get enough energy from pollen, so they moved to plan bee.

You know you're a nerd when you spend half of an entire day trying to get a fancy wallpaper to work.

I doubt an acquittal would be "swept under the rug." Sure, the government would love that, but Assange has big allies in the media. They'd be all over that, just like they are with everything else the man does.

"Feel-good programs where everyone gets a prize and self-directed learning isn't going to make the kind of change that is needed." Exactly. High school in the US is much to easy to graduate. I will never understand how some people managed to get diplomas, and yet still know essentially nothing about the world around them.