Because my brain is too small to rememeber all these junks…
Looks like a scene from Gulliver’s Travels.
Liam is New Y! Mail mascot. New Y! Mail came out of Beta a few days ago. I must admit, I’m starting to like it. It’s more responsive than ever, and you can accomplish almost anything with keyboard shortcuts (tho, I can’t figure out how to check/uncheck message using keyboard. Why not ‘x’?) Still no threading… :-/
Any guesses as to why he’s named Liam? :)
Slice: Korean Shrimp Roll and Hot Dog Pizzas
Check out “Tong-Cheese Bite” Pizza and “Royal Crust” Pizza (with commercial video)
Not sure about these exotic crusts, but Kimchee topping on pizza is excellent.
Dyson Airblade: No Sucking, Just Blowing
Just saw Dyson Airblade at the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle. And I must admit, I was impressed. Unlike the hair-dryer type dryer, you don’t need to rub or clap your hands. You just insert and slowly pull out. It drys your hands very quickly - Mr. Dyson claims 12 seconds. He also claims it uses less electricity, and is cheaper. Sounds like a winner to me.
However, I still ended up grabbing a paper towel to open the door on my way out. Just one of my pet peeves… What good is washing and drying your hands cleanly when you’re going to high-five some stranger who just wiped their arses and didn’t wash their hands? :-/ They should either make the door automatic, or make sure people can push it to exit, not pull (so you can kick it open).
Cute. Get it? :D
[from someone at Y!]
At least he had the accurate foresight!
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Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing
Wow, this is pretty amazing. If you are even remotely interested in photography, you should watch the video.
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How To: Get Eight Watch Batteries From a 12-Volt Battery - Lifehacker
Um… watch this before you buy watch batteries.
Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch - New York Times
Dr. Bostrom assumes that technological advances could produce a computer with more processing power than all the brains in the world, and that advanced humans, or “posthumans,” could run “ancestor simulations” of their evolutionary history by creating virtual worlds inhabited by virtual people with fully developed virtual nervous systems.
Some computer experts have projected, based on trends in processing power, that we will have such a computer by the middle of this century, but it doesn’t matter for Dr. Bostrom’s argument whether it takes 50 years or 5 million years. If civilization survived long enough to reach that stage, and if the posthumans were to run lots of simulations for research purposes or entertainment, then the number of virtual ancestors they created would be vastly greater than the number of real ancestors.
My question is that (and the article attempts to answer little bit at the end, but not at all satisfactorily) what happens if the super-computer in this instance of simulation becomes more powerful than the one that is hosting it? Will the simulation will end well before that? Maybe it’s scheduled to terminate in 2012… (you read it here first!)
One of the first commenter of the article offers this as disproof:
It’s unlikely that we live in a simulation. To accurately model the universe, a simulator would require at least as much information as contained in the universe itself. Since the amount of information is well-nigh infinite, there really is no way to do this. An inaccurate simulation could be made, but the aggregate of all inaccuracies would either become noticeable or nullify the purpose of running the simulation in the first place.
Hm… convincing. But one can argue that not everything in the simulation need to be as accurate as possible - just accurate enough for the subjects being simulated will not realize one day wtf?!
So, what should we do, or how should we act if we are, in fact, living inside a simulator? One economist offers this advice
If you might be living in a simulation then all else equal you should care less about others, live more for today, make your world look more likely to become rich, expect to and try more to particpate in pivotal events, be more entertaining and praiseworthy, and keep the famous people around you happier and more interested in you.
Ok, sounds good to me, regardless I am inside a simulation or not.
The Myth, the Math, the Sex - New York Times
One survey, recently reported by the federal government, concluded that men had a median of seven female sex partners. Women had a median of four male sex partners. Another study, by British researchers, stated that men had 12.7 heterosexual partners in their lifetimes and women had 6.5.
What’s wrong with that result? Read on to find out. The study seems to confirm one thing though, that
If asked, a man, believing that he should have a lot of partners, may feel compelled to exaggerate, and a woman, believing that she should have few partners, may minimize her past.
Can’t believe I didn’t realize this earlier… D’uh!
First, enable keyboard shortcut by ticking Edit | Preferences… | General | Use single-key accelerator to access tools.
RTFM. Press [F1] and skim through Keyboard shortcuts section.
These ought to cover most usage and liberate you from mouse:
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