Daen de Leon Never knowingly underopinionated

In January 2007, I answered a question on LinkedIn about The Next Big Thing. I predicted mobile devices would become dominant in our interaction with the internet. I wasn't much wrong.

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There will be three big technology drivers before 2012.

I've waited for the bus
I'm feeling quite tired
I don't make a fuss
If I'm late, I'll get fired

I'm feeling quite tired
Too much drinking last night
If I'm late, I'll get fired
Something's not right

Too much drinking last night
Throbbing pain in the head
Something's not right
Is the bus driver dead?

Throbbing pain in the head
And the bus has arrived
Is the bus driver dead?
No, he seems to have survived

DIDYENNE (n.): Past tense of 'doyenne', as in "Have you seen what a didyenne Vivienne Westwood has become?"

GRANDFATHER'S DOG

By JOHN ALISTAIR GRANT

‎"Du er så dejlig. Tak min skat."
Words I no longer hear.
A language, alien once to my ears, haunts me now
Like a half forgotten dream.
Time spent in a foreign land
Seeps into your bones and blood.
Tourist is a term for those
Without time enough for introspection
Innoculated against seduction
By their return tickets.
But then again, the tourist
Always goes home.
"Du er så dejlig. Tak min skat."

Chirality is an interesting concept. The best way to explain it quickly is an analogy to being left-handed or right-handed. Molecules don't have hands, but they do have an inherent orientation that can be compared to having a dominant hand that you do most of your work with. Sugars are mostly right-handed. Amino acids: Left-handed.

[From boingboing]

For the sake of completeness, let me fill in the complexity ...

For those of uswho have been following the cricket news, it's been an exciting, not to mention turbulent, week, in the Asia Cup. Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, have played six matches over the last week, a week which has seen both highs and lows for India, and a definite high for Bangladesh.

She regards her pale reflection
As it turns this way and that
In the dark, dusty attic mirror
Should she wear a different hat?
Will he notice her new outfit?
She smiles a little at that

She wonders at the weather
It's still most beastly cold
Spring is just beginning
And the winter feels old
She decides to take a brolly
She'll carry it neatly rolled

Recently, in a debate over healthcare in the US, someone claimed to me that "there is not one single thing that the government has done more cheaply or more efficiently than the private market".

This is demonstrably wrong, and, off the top of my head, I have three examples of why this is so.

When I was a teenager in the early-to-mid 80s, I was very excited about the potential for computers to simulate intelligence.