To scientists, laughter is no joke — it's serious

Always figured laughter was something you can't control.
To scientists, laughter is no joke — it's serious

Daily chocolate may keep the heart doctor away

And what do you know it taste great to boot!
Daily chocolate may keep the heart doctor away

Stand and Deliver

If you never seen this movie you owe it to yourself to watch it sometime.

Jaime Escalante dies at 79; math teacher who challenged East L.A. students to 'Stand and Deliver'
Sadly, none of my math teachers inspired me to pass my math courses all the way up to Calculus II, but watching this movie did.
RIP

memory leak in Windows 7

Oh great a memory leak in one of Windows 7 main processes!
A memory leak issue occurs in the Audiodg.exe process when you play audio on a computer that is running Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

'Supertaskers' That Can Drive and Talk on Phone Rare

Yup. Genetic freaks.
Just like beauty or brains.

Not suprising just like the crazy lady on Youtube that can talk like freaky fast because a part of her brain is larger than most normal folks.

I am proud to be gay, says pop star Ricky Martin

Did this really suprise anyone?
Now we just have to wait for Beckham to admit it.

Puerto Rican pop star Ricky Martin has announced he is gay, ending years of speculation over his sexuality.

Actually, this will make my Mom and sister sad since last time I spoke to them I was rubbing it in their face that he was gay and they didn't want to believe me. Now I feel kinda bad :(

Fatty Foods Can be as Addictive as Drugs

Could've told you that long ago without a study LOL!
I just feel bad for all the people I got addicted to junk food like Cheetos :(
Fatty Foods Can be as Addictive as Drugs

Infographic of the Day: What Does the New Health-Care Bill Mean for Me?

Okay, so this handy-dandy calculator isn't exactly an infographic. But it's an invaluable tool, given the mass confusion over what the effects of the Affordable Healthcare Act signed into law by President Obama today.

iPhone, IE, Firefox, Safari get stomped at hacker contest

CanSecWest It was another grim day for internet security at the annual Pwn2Own hacker contest Wednesday, with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox and Apple's Safari and iPhone succumbing to exploits that allowed them to be remotely commandeered.
The iPhone one sounds kinda fishy though hmmm?

Mac OS X Server v10.6: Understanding process limits

Good info on process limits in Mac OS X
In versions of Mac OS X Server prior to version 10.6 (Snow Leopard) the maximum number of processes available on a server was limited to 2500. The 64-bit kernel included in Mac OS X Server v10.6 automatically scales the maximum number of processes, vnodes (open file handles), and threads based on the amount of memory installed in the server.

LOST tv show

I don't know why it's so highly rated by people since some episodes aren't that good. I mean if you ever watched Battlestar Galactica , Smallville or Dr. Who I never remember seeing a bad episode or one that made me want to watch stopping future episodes. Hero's also started off good like Lost. First 2 seasons really good and kept you interested then started getting repetitive and dumb,etc.
Then again maybe it just depends on the person's taste?

RECURSION AND HUMAN THOUGHT: WHY THE PIRAHÃ DON'T HAVE NUMBERS

Dan Everett believes that Pirahã undermines Noam Chomsky’s idea of a universal grammar.
Well I can tell you from personal experience that if I was a betting man I'd bet against recursion because I don't believe it's built into anyone's brain.
I know it didn't come natural to me and took many years to even understand what it really means.
I mean turtles all the way down?
What's that supposed to mean?

How we Teach Introductory Computer Science is Wrong

Makes sense to me.
I've seen beginning programmers give up and even cry when they aren't given enough guidance or assistance LOL!
That's when Educational Psychologists began to question the idea that we should best teach problem-solving by having students solve problems.
This was most blatant in my college Physics courses where the instructor just stood there stopping his foot just waiting on students when he didn't provide enough guidance.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Didn't know this was another Bertrand Russell quote.
The man was obviously of a superior intellect.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.— Bertrand Russell[

Strange Windows 7 compatiblity bug

This is one of the reasons businesses are hesitant to upgrade from XP because if Microsoft doesn't even catch simple compatibility bugs like this in their own products...
Visual Studio products cannot be Upgraded when installed on Windows 7 operating system.

Quantum mechanics applies to objects that can be seen by the naked eye

This one thing that always bugged me about quantum mechanics(why am I able to sit in my chair and not fall through if it's all based on probabilites? Is Schrödinger's cat dead or alive? etc) and used to asked my Physics teacher in HS and college and they never gave me a good answer.
Well now these guys seem to give a pretty good answer.

Dirty joke

I don't usually laugh at these but this one is really good and funny as hell LOL:
Larry gets home late one night and his wife, Linda, says, "Where in the hell have you been?"

Larry replies, "I was out getting a tattoo."

"A tattoo?" she frowned. "What kind of tattoo did you get?"

"I got a hundred dollar bill on my privates," he said proudly.

"What the hell were you thinking?" she said, shaking her head in disdain. "Why on earth would an accountant get a hundred Dollar bill tattooed on his privates?"

"Well, one, I like to watch my money grow. Two, once in a while I like to play with my money. Three, I like how money feels in my hand. And, lastly, instead of you going out shopping, you can stay right here at home and blow a hundred bucks anytime you want."

It's time for Wall Street to pay - Wall Street - Salon.com

It's time for Wall Street to pay - Wall Street - Salon.com
I wouldn't hold my breath LOL!
Actually, the fact that they are smart enough to cover their asses will make sure they never go to jail unless they get bit with some sort of remorse like Madman Madoff!

Bill gates and steve jobs wanted to sue sun - The Inquirer

Bill gates and steve jobs wanted to sue sun - The Inquirer

Objective C's lazy type checking getting annoying

Kinda reminds me of writing PHP code where you don't realize you have a typo until your program crashes and burns at runtime!!!
I accidently typed NSStringwithFormat instead of NSStringWithFormat and that caused my iPhone app to crash.
You'd think XCode's autocompletion would help but so far it just seems to get in the way more often than not :(
Oh well I guess I will learn to hate it less the more I use it.

Steam Comes to Mac, Offers Cross-Platform Gaming Free of Charge - Steam mac - Gizmodo

Steam Comes to Mac, Offers Cross-Platform Gaming Free of Charge - Steam mac - Gizmodo

NewEgg sells 300 counterfeit Core i7-920 CPUs, KIRFers pump their fists -- Engadget

NewEgg sells 300 counterfeit Core i7-920 CPUs, KIRFers pump their fists -- Engadget
Keep an eye out for the fake i7 cpu's if you are building a new rig!!!

The value of a stream pointer is incorrect when an application calls the ifstream::seekg function in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

The value of a stream pointer is incorrect when an application calls the ifstream::seekg function in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

NVIDIA Forums -> Notice: GeForce Driver 196.75 has been removed

NVIDIA Forums -> Notice: GeForce Driver 196.75 has been removed
I just removed these drivers after verifying that the fan on my Nvidia card is stick at 40% even under stressful GPU games and applications leading to high and possibly dangerous temps!

Definition of 'Having Sex' Varies

Definition of 'Having Sex' Varies
This explains it all.
Like that one song from the 90's that went something like "people are having sex" and they don't even realize it LOL!

The Escapist : News : Ubisoft DRM Authentication Servers Go Down

The Escapist : News : Ubisoft DRM Authentication Servers Go Down
Could DRM suck any more?

the outlets and actions got moved to the Library window in Interface Builder 3.2

If you are following the Stanford iphone programming video's you will get lost at around 39 minutes into first lessson if you don't know about this major change!
Very annoying since I first assumed it was a bug with Interface builder.
I guess what I'm starting to find out is if you are following any iPhone programming video's or tutorials make sure you are using the same version otherwise you might lose some precious time as I did trying to figure out what went wrong!

Interface Builder Identity Inspector problem

From his sickbed, Garfield High legend is still delivering - latimes.com

From his sickbed, Garfield High legend is still delivering - latimes.com

Skinput Turns Any Bodily Surface Into a Touch Interface | Popular Science

Skinput Turns Any Bodily Surface Into a Touch Interface | Popular Science

Another one for the wasn't it obvious category

Intelligent men 'less likely to cheat'
The modern world no longer confers such an evolutionary advantage to men who have several sexual partners - but it is only intelligent men are able to shed the psychological baggage of their species and adopt new modes of behaviour

Other "evolutionary novel" qualities that are more common among people of higher intelligence include liberalism and atheism, his study indicated.

Compile Objective-C Programs Using gcc

Okay took me while to get this working but we'll see how far you can get writing command line objective C programs LOL:
Compile Objective-C Programs Using gcc

Actually see this instead:
http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Installing_and_using_GNUstep_and_Objective-C_on_Windows