December 2007
33 posts
An open letter to Apple on the matter of...
Mr. Jobs,
I’m not sure I understand your companies reasoning behind suing ThinkSecret.com out of existence. I do most of my work work on a PC as I’m a developer who works a lot with Microsoft’s web technologies, but I’ve had a Mac laptop in the past and I’m thinking once again of returning to a Mac in the very new future. Your company (along with the market of new...
Uncanny valley [Wikipedia] →
Mori’s hypothesis states that as a robot is made more humanlike in its appearance and motion, the emotional response from a human being to the robot will become increasingly positive and empathic, until a point is reached beyond which the response quickly becomes that of strong repulsion. However, as the appearance and motion continue to become less distinguishable from a human being, the...
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a...”
– Sinclair Lewis
Greek alphabet
Alpha
Beta
Gamma
Delta
Epsilon
Zeta
Eta
Theta
Iota
Kappa
Lambda
Mu
Nu
Xi
Omicron
Pi
Rho
Sigma
Tau
Upsilon
Phi
Chi
Psi
Omega
NATO phonetic alphabet
Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-Ray
Yankee
Zulu
“If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given...”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
To Remember Me - I will live forever
The day will come when my body will lie upon a white sheet neatly tucked under four corners of a mattress located in a hospital; busily occupied with the living and the dying. At a certain moment a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function and that, for all intents and purposes, my life has stopped.
When that happens, do not attempt to instill artificial life into my body by...
A Nation Once Again
When boyhood’s fire was in my blood
I read of ancient freemen,
For Greece and Rome who bravely stood, Three hundred men and three men;
And then I prayed I yet might see
Our fetters rent in twain,
And Ireland, long a province, be.
A Nation once again!
Chorus:
A Nation once again,
A Nation once again,
And lreland, long a province, be
A Nation once again!
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“Ransom Stoddard: You’re not going to use the story, Mr. Scott? Maxwell...”
– The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill
“Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one.”
– Winston Churchill’s response to George Bernard Shaw
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a...”
– George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
“Madam, if I were your husband, I would drink it!”
– Winston Churchill’s response to Lady Astor
“Winston, if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee!”
– Lady Astor to Winston Churchill at a dinner party
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
– Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the...”
– William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
