My new order of importance for things to read when I’m on the web:
My new order of importance for things to read when I’m on the web:
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Why Harry Potter Should Really Be All About Hermione Granger
And when Snape assigns homework, Harry is all, “Wah-Wah, there is sport tomorrow, fulfilling my responsibility will be so hard.” MEANWHILE Hermione is MOVING ****ING TIME so she can take more classes. Because girl knows SOMETHING is happening and she needs to STUDY THE EFF UP.
Apple is now the largest mobile phone manufacturer by revenue
Based on revenue, Apple is now the largest mobile phone provider in the world, surpassing even global leader Nokia.
Overcoming Bias : Opinion Warning Signs
Signs that your opinions function more to signal loyalty and ability than to estimate truth.
Some great ones here, and they pretty much sum up conversations with religious people:
- You have little interest in getting clear on what exactly is the position being argued.
- You find it easy to conclude that those who disagree with you are insincere or stupid.
- You are reluctant to change your publicly stated positions in response to new info.
- You care more about consistency between your beliefs than about belief accuracy.
- Your opinion doesn’t much change after talking with smart folks who know more.
- You find it hard to list weak points and counter-arguments on your positions.
This is what high-end smartphones looked like in 2007:
Smartphones were an established consumer-electronics market with devices that people thought were pretty cool, but often frustrating and with serious shortcomings and design flaws.
Then this happened:
State of the Climate: Warming, with No sign of Waning
NOAA has released an annual report detailing the state of the climate for the past twenty years. Each year, the message is the same. The world is warming. This past year was no different.
Trust the government to give a job like this to BT, and give them a blank cheque to do what they want with it.
In our company, if we produced a website like Business Link – and all of us worked full time on the project, even hiring some extra staff to work on research, and content provision, not only would we make a much more attractive and easy to use site than the current Business Link website, but it would cost a fraction of the price. Literally. Like less than 0.1%.
The Government should give their contracts to small businesses and get real value for money.
Drinking coffee doesn’t make you more alert, caffeine study reveals
The millions of people who depend on a shot of coffee to kickstart their day are no more alert than those who are not regular coffee drinkers, say researchers.
BBC News – Caroline Lucas celebrates first Green seat
Caroline Lucas will be Britain’s first Green Party MP after winning the Brighton Pavilion seat. She told Jeremy Paxman it signalled the start of a new political force in Westminster.
(Well this is a good thing at least!)
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Flower for Mum
A flower painting I did for my Mum on Mother’s Day.I drew and painted it with watercolour.
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Pikachu watercolour
My first watercolour painting in a very long time. I decided to do something cute instead of just a landscape.I realise it is something a small child could do, but it was just fun
A caring god would not have designed us like this
Our mindless mess of genes destroys the case for an intelligent creator, argues John C. Avise in Inside the Human Genome.
The worst of it is that extroverts have no idea of the torment they put us through. Sometimes, as we gasp for air amid the fog of their 98-percent-content-free talk, we wonder if extroverts even bother to listen to themselves. Still, we endure stoically, because the etiquette books—written, no doubt, by extroverts—regard declining to banter as rude and gaps in conversation as awkward.
Ha! This is so true.
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Traumatic Insemination
Traumatic insemination, also known as hypodermic insemination, is the mating practice in some species of invertebratesin which the male pierces the female’s abdomen with his penis and injects his sperm through the wound into her abdominal cavity. The sperm diffuse through the female’s hemolymph, reaching the ovaries and resulting in fertilization. The process is detrimental to the female’s health. It creates an open wound which impairs the female until it heals, and is susceptible to infection. The injection of sperm and ejaculatory fluids into the hemocoel can also trigger an immune reaction in the female. (via Shane Vigil)
And some people believe God divinely created this utterly barbaric method of copulation? Or did it evolve?
Mac OS X 10.5.8 available through Software Update
The latest update to Mac OS X (which is sent to every Mac owner) automatically upgrades your Safari 3 install to Safari 4.
This is excellent and exactly what should happen on all operating systems. There is no reason not to upgrade your browser, but every reason that you should. Some people cannot be bothered to go find the download though, so bringing it automatically to people like this is perfect. Well done Apple!
Wikipedia: List of common misconceptions
This is an absolute goldmine of common misconceptions — many of which I already knew but some I had taken for granted. Fantastic!
JK Rowling outs Dumbledore as gay
She said she regarded her novels as a “prolonged argument for tolerance” and urged her fans to “question authority”.
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