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The morning coffee is lacking pants

January 14th, 2010

One of the most fascinating things I have read on the Internet in a long time is this interview with an anonymous Facebook employee, where they talk largely about privacy, and a little bit about weirdos on Facebook. It’s worth reading.


(Audrey Deluxe performs Burlesque as Boba Fett. Photo by Shannon Cottrell. More here.)

New York. Subway. No pants. That’s just the way they roll.

Book burning might be out of fashion, but thepublicdomain.org argues here that gradual changes to copyright law over the past fifty years are accomplishing the same thing.

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The morning coffee is more than matter and energy

August 14th, 2009

Something bizarre is happening just outside of Saturn. Something is disturbing the ring.

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What happens when physics meets computer science? Matter and energy bump into a third fundamental concept: information. It is encoded in atomic structures and DNA. Decoded through complex neural firings in the brain, or biological processes that I don’t understand. And this has led one man to believe that the universe is a computer.

Youtube is now host to Ghostbusters. But if you live in the UK (and probably most other places that are not the USA), this link to the video will not work, thanks to outdated copyright laws.

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The morning coffee vs the n00b

August 12th, 2009

THE FUTURE: Where science and blogging meet. That’s right. Here at the Big Bad Blog, you are not just reading about whatever crosses my mind. You are witnessing the birth of future science

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A man is accused of downloading child porn. So he does what any man in such a situation would do: He blames it on his cat.

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