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05
Jul
[Food] Recipe – Fried Rice Mess
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Particularly easy way to use up food that’s near (not past!) the end of its shelf life 2 cups of rice (I like brown long-grain)...
02
Jul
Wonderful thing: OpenParliament
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Total props to this guy for a very simple, usable precis of Parliament, which desperately needs one of those.
14
Jun
The Vault
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I mentioned the vault in passing the other day, but I figured I’d take a moment and explain what that is. If you follow any...
13
Jun
I think about this almost every day
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There’s a new book out that talks about rebuilding civilization from scratch. I think about this topic all the time; it’s a moving target, and...
12
Jun
Ars waxes poetic
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The Ars Technica anticiparticle on Interstellar is a great piece of writing. It summons the GWB speech for Columbia and Tennyson’s Ulysses (which I had never actually...
04
Jun
A simple proposal: job destruction numbers for politicians
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If someone like Tim Hudak decides to cite ridiculously, confirmably liartastic job creation numbers during an election campaign, maybe someone else should take a look...
03
Jun
Living in the future: Speech is no obstacle edition
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This didn’t really happen today, but seriously? The computer is an automated (not great, but still automated!) realtime, inline many-origin-language speech-to-text, text-to-alt-language, many-destination-language text-to-speech translator....
03
Jun
Color, vision, perception
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Man, it’s a busy day for awesome stuff. This article on Boing Boing deals with the old philosphical saw about seeing “the same” colours, which...
03
Jun
Dear Canada, can we Man the F**k Up Yet?
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Apparently the US president has finally stepped into the climage change breach. I would really like to think that my own country, which is at...
03
Jun
Basically, gay genetics are awesome
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I saw this on BoingBoing. I’m not sure the theory is well-established or supported, but damn does that ever make a lot of sense. It has some...