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I hated MySpace. Mostly because a lot of people’s profiles make my eyes want to bleed. Then I had a good MySpace experience. After swearing off MySpace I joined again because I really wanted to listen to Apologize by OneRepublic. I heard on The Beat 94.5 (a local radio station) about their collaboration with Timberland [...]

I recently upgraded to a MacBookPro and I prefer to use virtual machines through VMWare Fusion rather than boot into Windows. In order to get Bluetooth and other MBP bits working in XP inside the VM I need to install the Apple hardware drivers bundled with Bootcamp.
I didn’t want to go through the Bootcamp installation [...]

From the author of Blink!, Malcolm Gladwell gives a great monologue on the lessons learned from Howard Moskowitz’s research into spaghetti sauce. Long story short, there is no perfect solution. Trying to come out with something that is good for everybody isn’t not great for anybody.
Focus on different groups of people and make something they [...]

Richard Dawkings is one of my favorite speakers. This video from TED is basically Dawkins talking about the relationship between quantum mechanics, evolution, our biology, perception and what is reality. Wow! It is one of most interesting talks I’ve ever watched him give.
I highly recommend everybody to watch it!

An interesting talk at TED from aging research Aubrey de Gray. The TED talk was the first time I heard of him. It would be great to be able to live to 1000 years old. I think I would spend my first 300 years learning and exploring, the next 500 years working and my [...]