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Non Sequitur — UCLICK GoComics.com Always going for a pun, that's a geek. (tags: humor geek comic nonsequitur) FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Is Gallup "upping the sample to black Americans"? "If you're doing a telephone poll and want to oversample Democrats, you can just call states and area codes where more Democrats live. Call New […]

Patient trapped in a 23-year 'coma' was conscious all along | Mail Online "A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it was revealed last night. Student Rom Houben was misdiagnosed after a car crash left him totally paralysed. He had no way […]

Friendly Atheist by @hemantmehta » Stop Using Q&A Time to Pontificate "The problem: Many of those atheists used the time not to ask a question, but to tell everyone about their views of religion. For example, they felt the need to comment on things Wilson argued in the movie. There was no question posed to […]

Official Google Blog: Automatic captions in YouTube "To help address this challenge, we've combined Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video. The captions will not always be […]

★ The OS Opportunity "That’s not the way things are today. Sure, there are massive business markets where Windows remains essential. But the Web is a bigger platform than Windows. The Web is universal. Every computer is on the Web. The Web provides us with a core set of software and APIs that work everywhere. […]

Choosing the Small Screen of a Smartphone for E-Reading – NYTimes.com "Many people who want to read electronic books are discovering that they can do so on the smartphones that are already in their pockets — bringing a whole new meaning to “phone book.” And they like that they can save the $250 to $350 […]

Coding Horror: Parsing Html The Cthulhu Way "So, yes, generally speaking, it is a bad idea to use regular expressions when parsing HTML. We should be teaching neophyte developers that, absolutely. Even though it's an apparently neverending job. But we should also be teaching them the very real difference between parsing HTML and the simple […]

WTF Code "Highlighting exemplary examples of code written by fine programmers." (tags: humor programming webdevelopment development geek computer quotes) Non Sequitur — UCLICK GoComics.com Twitter is being led by the "biggest social retards in the world". (tags: humor comic nonsequitur) Sarah Palin: If you fact-check my book, then the terrorists have already won | Media […]

The law loves American Christianity : Pharyngula "We're getting more of the same from Congress, too. Religion is being given permission to intrude on science once again, with the sanctimonious Orrin Hatch (abetted by a pair of Democrats, Kerry and Kennedy) sponsoring a provision in the mangled health care football to allow prayer to count […]