Download Google Chrome


For those have you whom still haven’t heard the news, Google has launched their own take at a web browser, working on a new revolutionary system that will make browsers safer, faster and more reliable with the modern internet user’s needs. I’ve been using it myself and it’s now my web browser of choice. However, it’s still in development really and being it’s a whole new system, it’s not perfect so I need to keep firefox around for a bit. Very nice UI though and runs nicely too. Go try it out.

http://www.google.com/chrome

Another Xbox 360 Price Drop?

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Yep. The 360 has been lagging quite a bit in sales lately, so Microsoft has decided to lower the price of the base model from $279 to $199 to try and get some more sales going. Also this makes the Xbox 360 the cheapest among the modern generation of gaming consoles.

Weighted Companion… Rectangle?


Isn’t an oven supposed to make the batter rise? Well whoever tried to do this Weighted Companion Cube did a brilliant job… it’s just a rectangle. Ten points for originality, at least! I can assure you that this cake will never try to stab you… but you may want to.

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In Soviet Russia, Fish Eat Cat!


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First thing I thought when I saw this was: “Sushi?”

Dad gets 18 Months for Forcing his Daughter to Kill Their Cat


Danield J. Collins was arrested and given 18 months in jail after he admitted to forcing his seven-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by taking a knife and stabbing the pet.

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Why do We Sleep? -Scientists Search for the Answer


For many of us, sleep is a precious gift, akin to coffee, that was gifted to us early on in our evolution. But scientists have long been completely baffled as to just why we sleep, and just what constitutes sleep anyway. A new study attempts to address just why we sleep.

Read the rest at The Daily Galaxy: Why do We Sleep? -Scientists Search for the Answer.

What an Elephant can do 18,000Km from Earth


Srs.

MySQLGame - The Game That’s Just a Database


Tired of boring games based around a database but have fancy graphic interfaces? Well how about a fun game that’s just a Database! Genius, right? Don’t just make yourself an account, put yourself in the database and update your row to compete against other rows in a giant birgade of queries.

Check it out!

Got a few extra wires?


The MSI Wind Laptop will put them to use! Equipped with 5 Ethernet controllers, you can use this little 10-inch laptop to achieve lightning fast transfer rates of up to 500mb/sec! Read the rest of this entry »

Mathematics and the teachers of dogma

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Once again the summer inevitably draws further along its arc at that rate which seems so variable and yet so constant, that juxtaposition of subjective measures of time passed and time remaining with the cold reality that the progress of the hours, days, weeks and months is as immutable as the very nature of Reality itself; once again, it crosses clearly into descent rather than ascent, scarcity in what is left over abundance in that which we have ahead of us; once again, ninety per-cent of humanity draws into reflection on a season gone and, for its youth, dread of the season to come. “Autumn approaches!” they cry; “Schooling, O bane of childhood, thou returnst to haunt our days!” Hurriedly, the student prepares himself for the tempest which is to strike him come September.¹

Yet there is one reason it could conceivably be argued that what is to befall him is not at all pernicious or destructive, but is instead beneficial and constructive: the student, it is claimed, gains from schooling an education, a grounding in truth and an appreciation of the means by which human knowledge is discovered. Yet such propaganda is laid bare by the active promotion within schools of, in the words of Crispin Sartwell, “material that is completely baseless, that is grounded entirely on the new age, politically-correct consensus of well-meaning fools,” i.e., mathematics.

Mr. Sartwell asks: What is “seven”? The dictionary will tell its reader that it is the cardinal number between six and eight; but what is “six”, and what is “eight”? Six, says the dictionary, is the cardinal number between five and seven, and in this way circular logic abounds. The reader now exclaims: “It is obvious!” Is it? Mr. Sartwell continues: “it is easy to see that ’seven’ does not actually refer to anything in the world.”

Does the reader think that this is but a pointless brain exercise, an experiment in gullibility, or some sort of philosophical debate over technicalities? Does the reader confidently boast that he knows what seven is? “Of course, everyone thinks they know what seven is. But there was a time when everyone knew what a demon was, or that the world was composed of four elements,” writes Mr. Sartwell.

Thus, as the seasons continue in their march and the season of idleness devolves into the season of work for the sake of work, so children are re-exposed to that pagan superstition which is mathematics. If we are to take a stand in opposition to dogma, in fervent rebellion against the pedagogy of the Establishment and in support of reality, we are left with no choice but to decry mathematics as the farce that it is.

¹ (Yes, I wrote that; and yes, it is pretentious to the point of sheer ridiculousness. That’s the point.)

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