Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design 0
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Archive for January, 2008
Sociologists: Studying engineering turns you into a terrorist 2
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A pair of sociologists have produced a piece of research in which they claim that graduate engineers are statistically over-represented among jihadi terrorists. They go on to suggest that engineers have a “terrorist mindset” making them likelier to turn jihadi than other kinds of people.
Voltaire once said:
“He who can lead you to believe an [...]
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Running, Not Riding and the Great Run 0
What have I done? I just signed up for the Great Run and wheras I can quite happily ride my bike for miles until I get bored, the last time I ran anywhere was when I did the cross country at secondary school. Er that was about 11 years ago as well!!
I put on my [...]
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Naturally 0
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Someone once asked Jean Cocteau, “Suppose your house were on fire and you could remove only one thing. What would you take?”
Cocteau considered, then said, “I would take the fire.”
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14 Signs of a Deficient Intellect 0
View all 14 grammatically erroneous signs.
There are some really good ones in the bunch!
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God (Allah) existence – The full proof 7
I came across this post today which presents an attempt to prove the existence of a deity using mathematical methods.
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Based on the concept of prove by contradictions which is commonly known in Algorithms
Analyzing all options then eliminating all impossible options, the remaining possible option is proved.
P(N1)=1-P(N2)-P(N3)-……
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E = Existence (Every [...]
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Archos look to take on Apple TV 0
The new TV+ from Archos is being launched to make sure that Apple don’t get a hold of another digital media market. This new box from the French media player maker does everything the Apple TV does, except for one thing. It does it all better!
It comes with a 250Gb HDD, can record direct [...]
Categories: IT, Tech & Internet
HECToR, Our lovable super computer 0
Britain’s most powerful supercomputer HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resource) will be used to simulate everything from climate change to atomic structures
HECToR will run at speeds of up to 63 teraflops – carrying out 63 trillion calculations a second (equivalent to every person on the planet performing 10,000 calculations every second). But it’s a [...]
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RIAA – New Ideas 0
Original Post on Joy of Tech
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Bhutto Assassination: A blow for democracy 0
Benazir Bhutto, the twice former prime minister of Pakistan was assasinated on the 27th December 2007 whilst campaigning for elections planned for 8th January 2008. Debate still remains as to the exact cause of death; her aids say she was killed by a gunman however the government maintain that she was killed by the impact [...]
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