August 2009
87 posts
“The global launch of Pocket Fritz 4, based on the Hiarcs 13.0 chess engine,...”
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ChessBase.com
“If something complicated is obvious, such as anything that anybody seriously...”
– Obviousness is not what it seems « Meteuphoric
πn-logic →
“Two New Zealand schoolgirls humbled one of the world’s biggest food and...”
– Schoolgirls rumble Ribena vitamin claims | World news | The Guardian
“Still feel confused about which generation you belong to, and which generations...”
– Final words on Generations X and Y - Brainiac - The Boston Globe
“What we would gain from P = NP will make the whole Internet look like a footnote...”
– The Status of the P Versus NP Problem | September 2009 | Communications of the ACM
“Indeed.” Gianni grins. “There’s more to that than mere...”
– Accelerando!
“Cellular economic theory suggests an alternative to linear growth: circular...”
– The Next Evolution in Economics: Rethinking Growth - HBR Now - Harvard Business Review
“It is not that the fluke of history which preserved this living fossil...”
– Unqualified Reservations: From Cromer to Romer and back again: colonialism for the 21st century
“Marxism uses the notion of “labour” as what-workers-do to get its moral rhetoric...”
– Thinking Out Aloud: The falsity of the labour theory of value
“I had never heard of Giovanni Arrighi. Should I be embarrassed about this? I’m...”
– What We Are Not Embarrassed by - Will Wilkinson
“Potter discovered, however, that geographic location alone could determine...”
– Placebos Are Getting More Effective.
Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers... →
“There was a time, and really not that long ago, that all physicians were in the...”
– intueri: to contemplate
“Should craigslist ever be sold, the price likely would run into the billions....”
– Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess - Wired
“Craigslist gets more traffic than either eBay or Amazon.com. eBay has more than...”
– Why Craigslist is such a mess - Wired
“Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.”
– Richard Dawkins
“The difference between something that is well-designed and something that is...”
– Designy-ness vs. Design - Blogs - Dwell
“The three categories of individuals who were most interesting for finding out...”
– Cranioklepty « Cheap Talk
“The release of Snow Leopard is not about new features; rather, it is about...”
– Fortune Brainstorm Tech
“There is no constructive logic beyond intuitionistic logic: modal logic, inside...”
– Jean-Yves Girard, Linear logic [PDF link]
“As it stands, the entire world’s system of measurement hinges on the...”
– This Kilogram Has A Weight-Loss Problem : NPR
“He speed reads a new pop-philosophy tome while he brushes his teeth, then blogs...”
– Accelerando
Psychiatric Diagnosis →
“The financial crisis of 2008 can now be traced back to weaknesses in the United...”
– Ross Garnaut em China’s new place in a world in crisis, ed. Brookings
Ten Year Old Child Produces Homemade Aerogels →
“When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb.”
– What is your best programmer joke? - Stack Overflow
“A man flying in a hot air balloon suddenly realizes he’s lost. He reduces height...”
– What is your best programmer joke? - Stack Overflow
Pra quem ainda duvida do mal que essa família faz...
marinadobairro:
Breu. O sinal da MTV no Amapá, domicílio eleitoral de Sarney, caiu anteontem durante a transmissão do Debate MTV, cujo teve foi a crise no Senado. A retransmissora, que pertence a um irmão do senador sarneysista Gilvam Borges, alegou queda de energia. Já a Companhia de Eletricidade do Amapá diz que não houve corte de luz na região.
(Painel da Folha de S. Paulo de ontem,...