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I read a very interesting post today. It tries to prove that science – as opposed to religion – is not faith-based. The story also got on Digg frontpage and was heavily discussed there. One comment thread in particular caught my attention, and it gave me some ideas that I feel I should write down […]

Here’s the step-by-step guide for converting FLAC to MP3. I tried out several free FLAC to MP3 converters prior to writing this tutorial and according to my testing, dBpoweramp seems to be the best choice…

It seems logical that mutual friendship could have been produced by evolution – the I help you, you help me, contract-style relationship can be seen as beneficial even from the selfish PoV or evolution. What caught me by surprise was the idea that true friendship – perseverant, everlasting despite circumstances – is also a product of survival of the fittest. This post talks about some interesting ideas in CFAI.

A few days ago I saw an IRC quote that went basically like this : When voice control interfaces finally go mainstream, the very first thing they need to do is make “Oh fuck!!!” immediately abort and undo the latest command or task. Sounds fun. Below is my lame attempt to produce some ideas along […]

Randall Munroe, of XKCD fame, just posted a very interesting blag entry (sic) about an interesting way to ensure that IRC discussion remain unique and thoughtful. The idea itself is very simple, and I sure did get the slightly annoying feeling of “damn-this-is-obvious” when reading the post. The trick is that, as far as I […]