soyelmango

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Adblocking in real life
1 points by soyelmango 16y ago|0 comments
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The rise of hipster hate - why?(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by soyelmango 16y ago|0 comments
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Haunted houses, and carbon monoxide(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by soyelmango 16y ago|0 comments
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by soyelmango 16y ago
Perhaps you should be recommending yousendit.com or similar
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The "legal blackmail" business: inside a P2P settlement factory(arstechnica.com)
34 points by soyelmango 16y ago|1 comments
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by soyelmango 16y ago
Yes, definitely written by someone who uses a laptop on the go and doesn't like carrying its weight about - even though he acknowledges the significant proportion of users whose laptops don't ever travel. In this case, the market is working
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"Clueless consumers favor 15-inch notebooks, ruining market"(blog.laptopmag.com)
2 points by soyelmango 16y ago|3 comments
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by soyelmango 16y ago
After reading this, I've just noticed that my FF has the option. I've never felt the urge to use it - probably because I have a (127,127,127) background so that I can actually see my icons and text. I think Glen justifies it well - it's n
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by soyelmango 16y ago
Ooof... that's what I meant!
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by soyelmango 16y ago
Good point. However, the balance of the text is more alarmist than rational. I suspect that the target market is unlikely to read the text closely enough to distinguish, for example, between correlation and causation ( http://www.bellyarmo
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Belly Armor: tinfoil hats for the expectant mother(bellyarmor.com)
22 points by soyelmango 16y ago|23 comments
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by soyelmango 16y ago
The eyedrops you refer to are belladonna , Italian for 'beautiful woman'. The intro from the Wikipedia entry ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atropa_belladonna ) says: "It has a long history of use as a medicine, cosmetic, and poison. Befo
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by soyelmango 16y ago
Your common sense reply shows how easy it is for us to get distracted by issues of race, culture, westernization.
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by soyelmango 16y ago
I think this is certainly an example of real people aiming for a western ideal of beauty. However, a quick google search http://bit.ly/bHOnEC doesn't show a particular bias for double or single eyelids in anime.
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by soyelmango 16y ago
This would explain the glut of sites such as cuteoverload.com
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by soyelmango 16y ago
[Edited from one of my comments ( http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/08/30/guest-post-w... ) at the article] Many people want to show that they have the financial means to enjoy leisure - whether that be because you’re well paid en
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Why do the Japanese draw themselves as white?(thesocietypages.org)
186 points by soyelmango 16y ago|143 comments
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by soyelmango 16y ago
Depending on what's at stake, it may be possible to prove that changes were made after the article was written, IF the free hosting keeps - and makes available - reliable access logs.
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by soyelmango 16y ago
Thanks for the link to Peter Norvig's spell checker - interesting reading there.
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by soyelmango 16y ago
...and how hard it would be for voice recognition systems too.
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by soyelmango 16y ago
And there's still space for 'thorough' and 'trough' in that story...
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by soyelmango 16y ago
Hmmm, there is potential here for multi-lingual homophonic exercises...
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by soyelmango 16y ago
I've heard Slough is tough enough to go through even without snow :P
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by soyelmango 16y ago
What does it mean? Three sad tigers...
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"shi1 shi4 shi2 shi1 shi3" - a Chinese tongue twister(yellowbridge.com)
77 points by soyelmango 16y ago|52 comments
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by soyelmango 16y ago
Hmmm, hows about seats with built in parachutes? Kinda like ejector seats, but without the ejector. If the plane disintegrates, the parachute deploys at a certain altitude. That would be a good reason to keep your seatbelt on through the fl
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by soyelmango 16y ago
It costs - The parachutes cost. The fuel to carry a plane load of parachutes for all the passengers costs. If airlines pass on the cost, I doubt passengers are willing to pay extra, even if it might save their lives. Image - there are only
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Can hyperlinks be libellous, or are they just mere footnotes?(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by soyelmango 16y ago|2 comments
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by soyelmango 16y ago
I've been to clubs where there's a big push to pay membership, buy tshirts/sashes ("We don't do coloured belts here", though seniority was signified by tshirt/sash colour...). In some cases, it was clearly commercial - I've heard of another
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by soyelmango 16y ago
I couldn't get the tune playing at BBC's site. Here is the theme tune on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7AkcneXhik

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