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  1. windows update installs IE8 and then installs security updates for IE6. good thinking, guys.
  2. RSS feed of computing-related articles from Nature and Science: http://bit.ly/Bcj06
  3. tom jones is welsh?!? http://bit.ly/P8A38
  4. just learned this: there's no such word as implicand; use implicans and implicate to talk about the clauses before and after -> respectively
  5. it's stupid that we still refer to semaphore operations as P and V. we can honor dijkstra without using his terms verbatim.
  6. it would be funny if Apple Hardware Test told you after diagnosing a problem how expensive the repair would be.
  7. pro tip: effervescent tablet (40 generic for $2.29) and near-hot water in sigg bottle, wait 15 minutes: clean!
  8. pro tip: add cooked quinoa to chili to make two lunch-size portions from one!
  9. finally saw some hacksaw-on-bike-lock action. cutting through down tube: 8 seconds. cutting through U-lock: 2+ minutes.
  10. 17% of people admit to peeing in the pool; 78% of people suspect their fellow swimmers of doing so: http://tinyurl.com/qf7lfk
  11. pun on 'minatory' went unappreciated, possibly unnoticed?
  12. practical != piratical
  13. schtick sift.
  14. keep it simple and aim for the heart.
  15. torpor the morning to you.
  16. cross-coupled inverters are mind-blowing.
  17. truly sick of the iphone causing interference with nearby computer speakers -- even ones that are off.
  18. i'm gonna get you, succor!
  19. things to avoid: ear infections, hornets, san fernando valley.
  20. took a long walk in the hills of ashfield, MA after (sadly finite) breakfast. totally silent except for the donk, donk of sap into pails.