January 2010
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“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel...”
– Ayn Rand
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“The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short circuit...”
– Ayn Rand
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Girls Are Bad At Sound Effects
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If You Hack Google, They Hack You Back. →
“Google’s delta force found evidence that the hackers had attacked 33 other companies, like Adobe, and that the onslaught actually came from China, not Taiwan. More to the point, “much of the evidence, including the sophistication of the attacks, strongly suggested an operation run by Chinese government agencies, or at least approved by them.” Unfortunately, Google...
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“When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men...”
– Ayn Rand
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World's Tallest Building Opens Today
Costing over $20 billion to erect and lasting the greater part of a decade, the Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest man-made structure, opens today. Standing at 2,684 ft (818 m), the Burj Dubai comes complete with a 175 room Armani hotel, 144 luxury residential suites, 800 apartments, 4 swimming pools, a ball room, and the world’s tallest observation deck.
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How's Your Grammar? You've Probably Been Saying... →
Start now! It’s “Twenty Ten” not “Two Thousand Ten”… here’s why.
bradjfitz:
Nice little article on why it’s grammatically correct to say “twenty ten” and not “two thousand and ten”. Basically it boils down to how the year has always been said, for example “1999” was pronounced “nineteen ninety nine” not “one thousand nine hundred ninety nine”. This was...
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