The Minority Report

I think this clip is the money shot but if you program, I think you will find this article extremely interesting. It has occurred to me that the reason for this could simply be that programming is so damned hard it can’t be automated. As a result, there’s no way to produce the gradations of [...]

Freaking awesome. Read the post for the reactions. Priceless. With Microsoft trying to figure out the future of its Live Search site, including the possibility of a new name, we decided to get a reality check on the effectiveness of the company’s current brand. So we went to the central branch of the Seattle Public [...]

While I was investigating the new programming language Newspeak the other day, I ended up “trapped” on a website dedicated to the book 1984. Now if you have never read 1984 then you are a complete retard and need to go get it from Amazon and read it today (its where I stole the title [...]

…ah ya know I luv’s ya!  I’m just funnin’. Completely and totally addicted to my stats (www.statcounter.com), I found that someone clicked through from Google search for the term “free roomba“.  I thought this was cool because this was the first time someone actually read that post and I laughed for hours after coming up [...]

I  noticed this morning that The Minority Report has increased it’s PageRank from 0 to 2.  That is a 2 point jump in the span of 2 months!  Put this together with being an influential blog, an Authority on Technorati, being Sphunn and Reddittededed, that means something! What it means, I have no idea…but YAY [...]

Like we need another reason to hate the French (on the other hand, they did stop using Microsoft…so are they all bad?). A vaincre sans péril, on triomphe sans gloire. While the vote was not expected until next week, the few members in the chamber at the end of the discussion on the Creation and [...]

It’s Friday! and you know what that means! I don’t either but here is another new programming language that I’ve discovered. It’s called Newspeak. Newspeak is a new programming language in the tradition of Self and Smalltalk. Newspeak is highly dynamic and reflective  – but designed to support modularity and security. It supports both object-oriented and [...]

As always gHacks has the skinny on stuff that nerds and nerd wannabes need to know. Jack posted a great introductory article to all the Ubuntu flavors of the day. Here is the list of the distros that Jack covers: Eeebuntu Xubuntu Gobuntu Ubuntu Studio MythBuntu CrunchBang OpenGEU I would read his take on them [...]

I really don’t have too much to say about this except I found it cool. Don’t judge me…just read it. One feature which Windows 95 almost had was floppy disk insertion detection. In other words, Windows 95 almost had the ability to detect when a floppy disk was present in the drive without spinning up [...]

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As seen on The Big Bang Theory which by the way, is one of the best sitcoms on TV right now (rules to the game below the hotness). If you didn’t want to bang the chick, Kaley Cuoco (Penny) before when she was on 8 Simple Rules, and definitely after Monday night when she was [...]

Absolutely needs no setup. How could life get any better? A few years after WWII ended, a young man working in a small restaurant in Sweden developed a new way to process bacon. By precooking it and blending it in a special way, he was able to make a fully cooked 100% bacon paste that [...]

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I follow 5ubliminal and he’s released his super secret PHP library for every known blackhat trick in the book. Obviously he’s shared this with me and a select few a few months ago and we’ve tested, refined and made sure that it works enough for a public release. I have to say that his coding [...]

I don’t know what order to post the clips but I think I’ve decided to paste them in the order that I found them. First we have Dan Grigsby on the Mobile Orchard: Wayne Pan benchmarked JavaScript on the iPhone 3.0 beta as compared to the 2.2 release and found performance improvements of 3-10x for [...]