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Quadruple Standards

> And it waves "violations of the TOS (Terms of Service)," without specifying which ones, in order to retaliate against those who criticize its soulless greed, Byzantine secrecy, Kafka-esque arbitrariness, and

The Importance Of Mistakes : 13.7

The spectacle of watching politicians fall over each other to distance themselves from research validated by armies of scientists is more than depressing. Our current understanding of climate, for example, represents the work

Ubuntu Workspace Customization

I took my little baby netbook to the lab today and found a lovely cable to hook up it to a 21" monitor with. The transition messed with some of my screen

Autocompleted Alphabet

Trying to figure out which site I wanted to waste my time on next, I randomly hit a letter on my keyboard to see what Chrome thought I would want to go to.

The Language of Food: Potato Chips

Another linguistics blog, this one all about one of my favorite things, food.  Today's article, potato chips! > In his famous book "Distinction", sociologist Pierre Bourdieu showed that our