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Friday, January 29, 2010

Spirit

On January 26th, 2274 Mars days into the mission, NASA declared Spirit a 'stationary research station', expected to stay operational for several more months until the dust buildup on its solar panels forces a final shutdown.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Retro Virus

He says this is the year of Linux on the desktop! The world of Windows will fade any moment now!
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Monday, January 25, 2010

Children's Fantasy

I was going to be a scientist, but that seems silly now. Magical worlds exist. I've learned a huge truth about our place in the universe. I'm supposed to care about college? I mean, FUCK.
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Friday, January 22, 2010

Dirty Harry

Sci-fi has energy weapons because otherwise the people like me who watch it get distracted counting shots.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

MicroSD

That card holds a refrigerator carton's worth of floppy discs, and a soda can full of those cards could hold the entire iTunes store's music library. Mmmm.
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Monday, January 18, 2010

Semicontrolled Demolition

I believe the truth always lies halfway between the most extreme claims.
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Friday, January 15, 2010

FIRST Design

Pool on the roof must've sprung a leak.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Self-Description

The contents of any one panel are dependent on the contents of every panel including itself. The graph of panel dependencies is complete and bidirectional, and each node has a loop. The mouseover text has two hundred and forty-two characters.
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Dimensional Analysis

Or the pressure at the Earth's core will rise slightly.
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Friday, January 8, 2010

Admin Mourning

And every day it gets harder to fight the urge to su to the user and freak people out.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

G-Spot

The BBC lead was 'The elusive erogenous zone said to exist in some women may be a myth, say researchers who have hunted for it.' I couldn't read it with a straight face.
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Monday, January 4, 2010

We Get It

The most brutal way I've ever seen someone handle this was 'Oh, you have a girlfriend. Are you going to get married?' 'I, uh, don't know--' 'Well, do you love her?' '...' 'Anyway, what were you saying about the movie?'
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Friday, January 1, 2010

Science Montage

The rat's perturbed; it must sense nanobots! Code grey! We have a Helvetica scenario!
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