June 2010
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Mind hack: get yourself to sleep
I had trouble getting to sleep when I was younger and I was facing a test or something in the morning. Besides the usual no caffeine/moderate exercise/moderate eating etc good advice I came up with a “mind hack” inspired by Richard Feynman.
Summarizing: try to re-play or think about dreams that you had before. If you don’t remember any, think of a story that looks like a dream...
May 2010
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Web servers of the most visited sites in the...
Google has published the 1000 most-visited sites on the web (they mention “Keep in mind that the list excludes adult sites, ad networks, domains that don’t have publicly visible content or don’t load properly, and certain Google sites.”)
An HN user got the response headers from these sites and I just parsed the given file and used Google charts to generate this images...
Keep your computer clean with virtualization →
April 2010
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March 2010
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Mythbusters: they could use a scientist
The Mythbusters guys could use a science guy.
I’m all for practice instead of theory and I love this show but there are some instances where a scientist on the show with some back-of-the-envelope calculations could have predicted some of the experiments’ outcome (heck, I did).
Let’s see:
Checking if a coin (a dime or quarter, can’t remember) dropped from the Empire...
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Things I don't need
I got a suggestion from Amazon, it was a “watch mover” and for a moment I pondered if it was something different from what my initial thought was but no, a watch mover moves watches, what a surprise.
So are you kidding me? what kind of person has a movement-powered watch, doesn’t wear it but needs it to be ticking? Oh well, I guess somebody with 10 expensive watches who picks...
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"You're a joke, go do some real police work"
Teen arrested in Australia for playing ‘offensive’ rap music from car WTF?
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Support Disaster Relief in Chile
On February 27, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Chile. Join recovery efforts mobilizing around the world to assist earthquake victims. Your donation will help disaster victims rebuild their lives and their communities.
http://www.google.com/relief/chileearthquake/
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Who has given more to Haiti?
Canada on top 3 in all categories f*ck yeah!
http://infobeautiful.s3.amazonaws.com/haiti_550_2.gif
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Laptop Batteries: I just take them out
For those of us that use their laptop as desktop replacements, should we leave the laptop plugged-in or should we pull the plug?
My battery life has been very poor in two different laptops (a Dell and a MacBook) when using as regular computer. I tried to use the standard advise of depleting from time to time the battery and charging completely etc to no avail; after 3 - 6 months the battery life...
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Ha ha, it only took One day
Yesterday I predicted “Some “pro-family” (homophobic) Republican or pastor in the US who is a staunch defender of the “sanctity of marriage” (whatever that is, since they don’t oppose divorce) will be caught having a sexual relationship with another man.”, well this is just too easy: Roy Ashburn ARRESTED: Anti-Gay State Sen. Got DUI After Leaving Gay Nightclub, Sources Say
In all...
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The Best Song Lyrics in the World
And the winners are:
TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Prisencolinensinainciusol
Kalluri Vaanil
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Predictions for the new year
Actually this works for basically any year.
There will be some big disaster caused by Nature (earthquakes, hurricane, volcanos etc)
There will be some big disaster in transportation: airplane or train crash. Of course if the train crash is in some distant place then we’ll know only if there are hundreds of victims.
Yet more compelling evidence of evolution will be discovered, yet the...
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Why am I not surprised?
From the Globe and Mail: Immigration Minister pulled gay rights from citizenship guide, documents show . The funny thing is that in 5, 10 or 30 years gay marriage will be as natural (and rightly so) as interracial marriage or woman’s suffrage.
To be fair, next day’s update: Jason Kenney on gay-rights removal: ‘I did not do such a thing’
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Testing 1,2,3
Very original title!
Deciding between ycombinator’s Posterous and tumblr, I guess I don’t need so much the “post form email” feature and tumblr has an iPhone app. I like to have a more personalized design.