This is the practicality of the thought coming out of high transhumanism? Let's dismantle a planet in 25 to 50 years?

"One Googler authorized to speak for the company on background (meaning I could use the information he gave me, but not directly quote or attribute it) told me something that I found shocking. Google isn't primarily about search anymore. Sure, search is still a core product, but it's no longer the core product. The core product, he said, is simply Google."

"The massive work by New Zealand scholar Sally-Ann Lambert is extraordinarily detailed, and the product of years of effort.

The problem is: The language in the book is not recognizable by contemporary scholars, or Native Tlingit speakers."

"On December 24th, 2011, McDonald's, Burger King and Taco Bell quietly announced they would discontinue the use of Pink Slime in their products.[1] BPI officials said they still have other fast-food chains as customers but would not identify them.[1]" mmmm

helpful for guessing dates of things found in basements

no injuries, but released a toxic cloud (recalling "white noise")

doug says the photo could use a caption in the style of unhappy hipsters

document classification, like spam detection; displayed 1-3 chilis. see also "potential problems".

"The resulting 'Rousseau Banquet' was a resounding success, an all-night extravaganza whose details have been lovingly told and retold for the last hundred years. Today, it is regarded as the symbolic highlight of the Parisian Belle Époque."

"Here's how it works: You purchase bids in pre-packaged blocks of at least 30. Each bid costs you 75 cents, with no volume discount. Each bid raises the purchase price by 15 cents and increases the auction time by 15 seconds. Once the auction ends, you pay the final price. [...] But wait -- it gets worse!"

from botoşani county to the turks and caicos islands and beyond

"Most simple instructions on the Core 2 take one clock cycle to execute, hence a third of a nanosecond at 3.0Ghz. For reference, light only travels ~4 inches (10 cm) in the time taken by a clock cycle... reading from L1 cache is like grabbing a piece of paper from your desk (3 seconds), L2 cache is picking up a book from a nearby shelf (14 seconds), and main system memory is taking a 4-minute walk down the hall to buy a Twix bar... Keeping with the office analogy, waiting for a hard drive seek is like leaving the building to roam the earth for one year and three months."