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Wolfram|Alpha is racist (wherein I channel Angry Asian Man)
Check out Gizmodo’s post: Wolfram Alpha: A Bit Racist? Searching for the word “dumb” brings up “results for Racist synonym trees that associated the word dumb with black.” W|A explained this essentially as follows: “One thing Wolfram|Alpha gives is synonyms for dumb. An example is “dim”. …So, “dim” is a synonym of “dumb”. But what are synonyms of “dim”?” What this doesn’t explain, in my mind, is the results and synonym trees for the “N word.” Better yet, contrast that with the the synonym tree for “honky”: Now can someone please lexicographically explain the fuck out of that shit?
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The Kuj is back
Total damage: 9,400 Baht (about $300 US) An unwelcome expense but much much better than losing my car. Plus the aircon compressor was replaced and a new fan installed so the cooler works better than even some new cars I’ve been in. And the compressor is now tuned to the engine so it no longer stalls when the RPM suddenly dips like it did before.
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Star Wars ABC Illustrations
A is for Ackbar, B is for Bantha… LINK
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Close call (the Kuj, the Kuj, the Kuj is on fire)
Just as I left for work in the Kuj today, not even half a kilometer from my house and still inside our neighborhood, the air conditioner (under dash box unit) cut out and black smoke started pouring out from the dash. I stopped the car and cut the engine, but smoke continued to pour out and I could hear either the sound of something shorting out or the sound of plastic burning from the cable bundles under the steering column that are encapsulated by the dash. Then, through the hole where the original ignition was mounted (it’s now on the steering column like a modern car), I saw flames. All…
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Fallout 3 Trailer
I know this is all backward because you usually watch a trailer before a game is released or you actually play it (and I know I found about about all this so late), but Fallout 3 is so good… The last time I felt even close to this way about a game is when BF1942 was first released.
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Wolfram|Alpha is retarded*
No, I’m sorry, it just is. And all the people who called it a “Google killer” are also retarded (in an ” isn’t sure what to do with your input” sense, that is). * don’t worry – like all post-1999 web sites it will “learn over time”
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Where food ends up
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Firefox bold text problem (that wasn’t actually a Firefox problem)
As the title indicates, I noticed a sudden problem today in Firefox (on Windows XP) when checking Gmail – all of the text was bold. So I fired up Chrome to see if FF was the problem and all of the text in Chrome was in italics… These two problems together indicated a corrupted system font. If you have ever have this problem, you need to reinstall the Arial font family (TrueType). The executable installer can be found here or here.
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Sunday Backup Organization
Max and mommy went to his grandparent’s house so daddy took the time to organize five years of DVD (originally all DVD-R but more recently DVD+R for Improved! Error! Correction!; everything important is on genuine “That’s” brand Taiyo Yuden 16x media, everything else is on TDK or SONY 8x or 16x [end historical optical media note]) backups. I must say, we are in a fairly sucklical state of backup media at this point in history. Optical media like CDs and DVDs (and presumably BluRay Disks as well) apparently degrades in a matter of a few years in extreme cases, and keeping things on a form of media (HDs) that constantly…
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Max loves keys and locks
Linky, linky: The Ultimate Lock Picker Exposes Weak Military Installations, Corporate Systems Wired arranged a picking test for the best locks Medeco had to offer, and filmed the results.
