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"Among 6-to-8-year-olds, free playtime dropped 25% from 1981 to ‘97, and homework more than..."

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:38:21 -0500

“Among 6-to-8-year-olds, free playtime dropped 25% from 1981 to ‘97, and homework more than doubled.”

- that’s waaay too much homework! … Helicopter Parents: The Backlash Against Overparenting

Bering in Mind: Why do human testicles hang like that?

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:30:24 -0500

Bering in Mind: Why do human testicles hang like that?:

(via Instapaper)

"Is this taking the whole Star Trek thing a teensie weensie bit too far? d’Armond Speers spoke..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:25:01 -0500

“Is this taking the whole Star Trek thing a teensie weensie bit too far? d’Armond Speers spoke only Klingon to his child for the first three years of its life.”

- Local dad spoke only Klingon to child for three years - Minneapolis / St. Paul News - City Pages - The Blotter

"My eight-year-old son, Joel, comes into my office to ask if there’s a worse swearword than..."

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:46:40 -0500

“My eight-year-old son, Joel, comes into my office to ask if there’s a worse swearword than fuck. “No,” I say.”

- Jon Ronson on telling his son the worst swearword in the world |
Life and style |
The Guardian

"During a screening interview, I was asked how I would design a bike fit for someone visually..."

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:18:40 -0500

“

During a screening interview, I was asked how I would design a bike fit for someone visually impaired. I responded something to the effect of, “What, like, for blind people?”, and she answered yes.

I thought for a moment and then I responded, “Well.. a blind person riding a bike doesn’t sound like a very safe idea, so I would make the bike stationary, maybe with a fan blowing in the person’s face. He probably wouldn’t even know the difference.”

She was speechless.

”

- Job Interview 2.0: Now With Riddles! - The Daily WTF (via Instapaper)

"In the area of CPU scheduling, Google found the move to the completely fair scheduler to be painful...."

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:17:11 -0500

“In the area of CPU scheduling, Google found the move to the completely fair scheduler to be painful. In fact, it was such a problem that they finally forward-ported the old O(1) scheduler and can run it in 2.6.26. Changes in the semantics of sched_yield() created grief, especially with the user-space locking that Google uses. High-priority threads can make a mess of load balancing, even if they run for very short periods of time. And load balancing matters: Google runs something like 5000 threads on systems with 16-32 cores.”

- KS2009: How Google uses Linux [LWN.net]

Cell Size and Scale

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:50:37 -0500

Cell Size and Scale

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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:33:53 -0500

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"Bud Light drinkers are also 48% more likely than the average person to play the lottery every day..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:47:05 -0500

“Bud Light drinkers are also 48% more likely than the average person to play the lottery every day and 34% more likely to never buy organic products.”

- Psychographics: What Your Taste in Beer Says About You - Advertising Age - News

The Food Lab: Perfect Boiled Eggs

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:23:50 -0400

The Food Lab: Perfect Boiled Eggs:

fascinating!

she loves her bear hands. gets smiley when they’re brought...

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:54:59 -0400

she loves her bear hands. gets smiley when they’re brought out.

"Like all fish that are kept as pets, goldfish do not like to be petted."

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:07:51 -0400

“Like all fish that are kept as pets, goldfish do not like to be petted.”

- Thank you, wikipedia, as I never would have known that.
Goldfish

meow mix (via cyriak)

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:22:44 -0400

meow mix (via cyriak)

"I’m going to skip right to the heart of what I want to say about this city: if you’ve never lived in..."

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:56:22 -0400

“I’m going to skip right to the heart of what I want to say about this city: if you’ve never lived in a major city before, you’ll probably like San Francisco. However, if you’re coming from another notable city, you may be disappointed. Hopefully, that’s pretty uncontroversial.”

- Alex Payne — So You’re Moving to San Francisco

"Listening to your customers these days is like teenage sex: everyone says they’re doing it, but..."

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:44:25 -0400

“Listening to your customers these days is like teenage sex: everyone says they’re doing it, but nobody’s doing it well.”

- Interview with Emil Eifrem about Eric Ries, Venture Capital and Øredev « The Øresund Entrepreneur (via Instapaper)

"For years, I have made the joke about Richard Reid: “Just be glad that he wasn’t the..."

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:06:48 -0400

“For years, I have made the joke about Richard Reid: “Just be glad that he wasn’t the underwear bomber.” Now, sadly, we have an example of one.”

- Schneier on Security: Ass Bomber

"Steal a helicopter. Dress like ninjas."

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:58:56 -0400

“Steal a helicopter. Dress like ninjas.”

- Now this is how to rob a bank | Article | The Punch

"I could have stood in line at the airport cabstand for fifteen minutes like every other mook in the..."

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:39:48 -0400

“I could have stood in line at the airport cabstand for fifteen minutes like every other mook in the world, freezing my balls off, but such is not the way of the twenty-dollar millionaire. I walked straight to the front of the line and offered a woman twenty bucks for her spot. She took it with a shrug. Behind her, people crackled. “Hey! Ho!” they shouted. I knew exactly what that meant. It wasn’t good. I needed to get in a cab soon. One of the guys flagging cabs pointed me to the back of the line. That’s when I grabbed him by the elbow, pulled him close, and shook his hand, passing the next twenty. I was now down forty dollars for a twenty-dollar cab ride. He tilted his head and nodded to his partner. I peeled another twenty and they let me climb in. As we pulled away, someone in the line threw a half-empty cup of coffee against my window.”

- The $20 Theory of the Universe - Esquire

Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile on Vimeo (via...

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:54:23 -0400

Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Where The Buffalo Roamed « Weather Sealed

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:03:29 -0400

Where The Buffalo Roamed « Weather Sealed