January 2010
58 posts
Kids' sex talk leaves teachers 'helpless' | ... →
“The students are talking about what they have done on the weekend, sexual experiences that they are having,” She said at a recent AEU forum, teachers had described what children in grades 4 and 5 talked about.
I heard the same conversations from other kids when I was in grade 4 and 5.
Tag Clouds →
Tag clouds seem to be the current way to display tagged data. A cloud of tag words with the more popular ones being bigger and bolder than the less popular ones so as to get your attention. The…
Kevin Rudd keeps opinion on sex before marriage to... →
“In a personal interview with The Australian Women’s Weekly, Mr Abbott has said he doesn’t think women should give away their virginity too lightly. The father of three qualified his comments by saying he was speaking as a parent and not issuing instructions to the world.”
This guy is so funny, he has also stated that he supports beating children at school.
3D movies →
I went to Avatar 3D a few weeks ago and saw a lot of previews for more upcoming 3D movies. which means this will be a growing trend in movies. The 3D in Avatar was awesome, once I stopped feeling…
“Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, make it illegal to teach fishing...”
– Give a man a fish, make it illegal to teach fishing. | Digital Copyright Canada
michaelv.org →
woo! windows 3.1!
Scientists create the first transistor made from a... →
The news is a month old, but fuck yeah! We are well on our way to reaching the physical limit to computing power.
USENET Cookbook - CHEESECAKE-1 →
Rob Pike, research!rob AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ Recipe last modified: 29 Jan 86
“The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it...”
– John Carmack
Polyamory
I like my data relations like I like my love life, many-to-many
“One of the issues which occupied officials in Washington for months was what to...”
– BBC News - Why Guantanamo Bay closure deadline was missed
riffito comments on Users residing in countries... →
Orthodox Jew triggers plane bomb scare | ... →
Good to know we’re still as terrified as ever
“The former Mickey Mouse Club member insisted on speaking in the voice of...”
– Britney Spears displays bizarre antics at LA hotel | News.com.au
Southern Cross used like swastika →
nice to see this guy is worried about a symbol instead of the actual racism.
40 rods per hogshead in mpg - Wolfram|Alpha →
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent...”
– — Bertrand Russell (via quotes | logik.li)
SUCCEED Blog: A collection of the world's most... →
You can get anything you want at Alice's... →
thenewsh: The Acme environment in Plan9 →
Videos tutorials on using the Acme text editor. This is awesome!
“The terrorists have won. We’re afraid of our own shadows.”
– forth | forth elsewhere: British police arrest man under terror legislation for internet joke
“You have been told that real life is not like college and you have been...”
– Meryl Streep (via nancysun)
so true, people with their power struggles for insignificant amounts of power.
Science project prompts SD school evacuation -... →
Who needs book burning when you can just scare the fuck out of anyone that shows an interest in science.
Defence repelled 2400 cyber attacks in 2009 | The... →
Seriously, the Australia government needs hire some computer scientists to explain computers to them.
“It portrays indigenous Australians in the most unsavoury light possible, and you...”
– Google Removes Racist Site | Indigenous Australians
If our education system is producing children that would believe what they read on Encyclopedia Dramatica then we have much bigger problems to worry about…Retards.
The story of Mel, a Real Programmer from FOLDOC →
“Yet, you wanna know something funny? I purposefully placed two direct errors in...”
– If You Hate How I Write, Why Comment Like Me?
Zed Shaw is fucking awesome!