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Archive for August, 2012

Thursday, August 16th, 2012

How low (power) can you go? – Charlie Stross looks into the future (as Sci-Fi authors often do) and predicts what 2032 could look like with one square millimetre computers everywhere.
American Baby Names Are Somehow Getting Even Worse – Bastian, Sincere, Copelia, Luxx
Race, IQ, and Wealth – Is IQ just a function of GDP/Wealth ?
Terminator 2 – 20 years ( July 3 1991 – July 3 2011) (Youtube) – You may remember “8-bit trip” by Rymdreglage a couple of years ago. Here is their stop-motion tribute to T2 ( which I’ve seen 5 times in the theatre).

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Wednesday, August 15th, 2012

10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America – A list of stuff that Americans don’t know about how the rest of the world perceives them or how it is compared to them
The 7 Most Common CGI Screw-Ups (Explained) – I know cracked.com is just a content farm but it has really good articles. In this case a bit more informative and technical than usual.
How to play in someone else’s band - The subtitle is “gain twenty years of road experience with a five minute read” and it is really good. The main point to remember is your number one job above all else is to make the leader sound good, look good and feel good.
Fun with Energy Consumption Data – The “Fun” bit is estimating how many servers Google and Facebook have.

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