Archive for January, 2009

Putty

Posted in Humor, Science by Sean on January 29th, 2009 @ 8:26 PM

This isn’t going to be good for business.

Posted in Politics, Travel by Sean on January 28th, 2009 @ 12:20 AM

“This isn’t going to be good for anybody.” –Seinfeld
From the Christian Science Monitor:
Two Saudis formerly jailed at the US prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have joined Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch, and authorities here worry that two other ex-Guantánamo inmates may have strayed back to militancy because they have recently disappeared from their homes.
Mas aqui.

Captchas

Posted in Books, Science by Sean on January 26th, 2009 @ 10:11 PM

From the BBC:
To thwart spammers many websites force visitors to transcribe obscured words or characters before they get access.
Now instead of random words many sites are taking text from old books and documents that have been scanned by character reading software.
The words supplied are those the software cannot read but humans can, helping to complete [...]

In the interest of science

Posted in Science by Sean on January 25th, 2009 @ 11:10 PM

From the NY Times:
During shots of lesbian coupling, heterosexual women reported less excitement than their vaginas indicated
Ahem. More here.

Presidential interweb refresh

Posted in Art, Economics, Jesus, News, Politics, Rant, Science, Work by CJ on January 20th, 2009 @ 8:23 PM

Did you guys see the new whitehouse.gov? It has been updated nicely.
Check the before and after:

Obama and his team keep raising the bar design-wise. Keep up the good work guys!
Also, we’ve come a long way since 1999

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