This game is strangely satisfying. I spent a couple hours playing it, and I carried out a series of experiments to see what effect my restaurant layout had on the rate of change of my thumbs-up total. Here are the results: Game: Restaurant City on Facebook Measurement: Thumbs Up Date/Time: Monday, July 20, 2009, 2:00…Continue Reading…
You’ve probably heard by now about the $23,148,855,308,184,500 (23 quadrillion) charges that some people saw on their Visa balances recently. But here’s a thought that actually applies to you: “Only Notice Large Glitches Probably more offensive is that a glitch happened at all, large or small. It could have just as easily been $2.31 in…Continue Reading…
I’d classify this as something like a phishing scam. Here’s how it works. One of your buddies sends you a bit.ly link. For example, http:// bit.ly/ jyDTm (spaces added). Don’t go there unless you know what you’re doing. This is the potentially-dangerous page that attempts to steal your AIM password. When you click the link,…Continue Reading…
Now that my (still awesome) 15″ MacBook Pro is 2 generations behind the latest and greatest, I wonder: What would be the cheapest way for me to get a new Mac? Would it be with my ADC student membership? Or would it be with the standard student discount?
I just saw a program on TV that said scientists are puzzled about the Coelacanth, a creature they thought was extinct. It has been found to be alive in the deep sea. They compared this to dinosaurs, saying that this discovery was even more surprising than if a dinosaur walked out of the woods. Well,…Continue Reading…
It’s surprisingly hard to find these defined anywhere, so here they are. SVN Letter Codes U Working file was updated G Changes on the repo were automatically merged into the working copy M Working copy is modified C This file conflicts with the version in the repo (see Conflicts below) ? This file is not…Continue Reading…