RT @defunkt: Now that Facebook has patented the News Feed, GitHub is proud to announce we’ve patented Version Control.
February 2010
“Humour seems to be a product of humans’ ability to make rapid, intuitive judgements” about a situation, followed by “slower, deliberative assessments” which resolve incongruities, says Karli Watson of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.”
—The comedy circuit: When your brain gets the joke - life - 01 February 2010 - New Scientist
Episode 100 of PoliSciFi Radio is up at http://bit.ly/bLxiDF — interviews with @maddow, @brianwood, @caseymckinnon & more #psfr
RT @mfeathers: It would be cool if Google and all the major internet companies just shut down in Italy for a while: http://bit.ly/9ZdHKZ
ZOMG @maddow live now on #psfr http://www.poliscifiradio.com/?page_id=23
Buzz really turned up the heat on my Reader follower count
“The renovations will essentially leave the Mission District without a centrally-located open space for a year and a half starting in September 2011.”
—Local: In The Mission : Dolores Park Will Close
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In a series of “laboratory gunfights” - with pistols replaced by electronic pressure pads - researchers found that participants who reacted to their opponent’s movement were on average 21 milliseconds faster to the draw.
Professor Andrew Welchman, who lead the research, puts this down to the “quick and dirty” nature of instinctive responses. Reacting to your opponent’s movement turns out to be significantly faster than the conscious decision-making process involved in choosing to draw your gun.
” —BBC News - Today - The gunfighter’s dilemma
“‘Buffalo bison whom other Buffalo bison bully themselves bully Buffalo bison’.”
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