Entries from June 2010

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

QUOTE: Just as men both want many women and,want to truly love a woman, women want both a man who is appealing to many women and to be truly special to a man.

“Just as men both want many women and want to truly love a woman, women want both a man who is appealing to many women and to be truly special to a man.” — Obsidian Files Posted via email from crasch’s posterous

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Avertible catastrophe: EPA regulations block Dutch oil skimming ships

The Dutch know how to handle maritime emergencies. In the event of an oil spill, The Netherlands government, which owns its own ships and high-tech skimmers, gives an oil company 12 hours to demonstrate it has the spill in hand. If the company shows signs of unpreparedness, the government dispatches its own ships at the [...]

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

QUOTE: “World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimization.”

“World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimization.” — Less Wrong, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Posted via email from crasch’s posterous

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

So not only is the wizarding economy almost completely decoupled from the Muggle economy, no one here has ever heard of arbitrage. The larger Muggle economy had a fluctuating trading range of gold to silver, so every time the Muggle gold-to-silver ratio got more than 5% away from the weight of seventeen Sickles to one [...]

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Frozen in time: How life insurance can make you immortal

The “average cryonicist is male with an extremely high intelligence level, and is often a mathematician or computer engineer,” Hoffman says. John Dedon, a principal in the trust, estate and tax planning practice of Washington, D.C.-area law firm Odin, Feldman and Pittleman, agrees that his cryogenic clients are smart and accomplished. “There’s a somewhat limited [...]

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

HackerDojo A/C fundraiser

The HackerDojo is a community center for hackers, programmers, entrepreneurs, artists, and makers of various sorts. The Dojo has hosted a number of cool events, such as Random Hacks of Kindness, Android meetups, API Hackathons, Startup Weekend, the Augmented Reality Conference, and many more. However, during the summer months, much of the Dojo becomes unbearably [...]

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Plumber’s Union blocks waterless urinal

Plumbing codes never contemplated a urinal without water. As a result, Falcon’s fixtures couldn’t be installed legally in most parts of the country. Krug assumed it would be a routine matter to amend the model codes on which most state and city codes are based, but Massey and other plumbers began to argue vehemently against [...]

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

New York hotels try to outlaw AirBnB, short term rentals

This week, New York state senators vote on a bill that would make it illegal for any homeowner or renter to sublet for less than a month. The new law would be a blanket ban on short-term rentals — no matter how ethical the renter is. via techdirt.com Posted via email from crasch’s posterous

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Cat Lassie

via youtube.com Posted via email from crasch’s posterous

Monday, June 28th, 2010

QUOTE: Would that equanimity grew as lushly as bitterness.

Would that equanimity grew as lushly as bitterness. Posted via email from crasch’s posterous