July 2009
“The glass is multicoated, hence the “MC” designation. (I have to admit that I love that name MC Zenitar. It sounds like an outer space rap star. “Yo, yo, MC Zenitar aboard the space station, y’all.”)”
—MC Zenitar 16mm fisheye lens for EOS
“But somehow, I just get a wierd kind of irrational feeling that if we were to do a survey, we’d discover that a lot of SEOs are also homeopaths.”
—How Many SEO’s Are Also Homeopaths? - Software People Inspiring
“It’s not a crime to be black, that is merely a social inconvenience. The crime now is not being a cop. If you’re not a cop you’re not a full citizen.”
—Prominent Black professor arrested for entering own home while Black - Boing Boing
“In reality, what’s left on the Moon now is an American flag, an old car, and some sports equipment. So mankind’s collective ‘giant leap forward’ basically turned the Moon into a meth head’s front yard. And there’s nothing more American than that.”
—Jon Stewart, The Daily Show (via inothernews) (via kindacarsick) (via asprettyasasong) (via mikehudack)
“We have estimated the effect of the introduction of the potato on Old World population growth and urbanization. The nutritional and caloric superiority of the potato, and its diffusion from the New World to the Old, allows us to estimate causal effects using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy. According to our most conservative estimates, the introduction of the potato explains 22% of the observed post-1700 increase in population growth. These results show that food and nutrition matter. By increasing the nutritional carrying capacity of land they can have large effects on population.”
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Well done potato, well done.
The Potato as Disruptive Innovation
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“Rather than pulling an Apple on us anymore, Google has picked up the nasty habit of pre-announcing technology. Guys, you stole the wrong playbook. And, uh, we don’t want it back.”
—Daring Fireball Linked List: Mini-Microsoft on Microsoft and Google
“Internet griefers descended on an epilepsy support message board last weekend and used JavaScript code and flashing computer animation to trigger migraine headaches and seizures in some users.”
—Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer
