Well it seems like the whole SciFi question goes a lot deeper than Pollarity can handle. As well as poor voter turnout, commenters offered Babylon 5 and Stargate as their preferred SciFi. I thought the varying incarnations of Star Trek may have posed a problem, but this is much worse. I lose [...]

A well known quote from Isaac Newton is “If I have seen further [than others], it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants”. Less well known about Newton is that it was in falling from the shoulders of giants that he first began to consider the nature of things falling down, which [...]

At funerals, when they have a viewing of the body, on TV at least, they always have the person lying on their back with their hands on their stomach or chest. Is that supposed to make the person look like they are just sleeping? Who sleeps like that? I think the viewing [...]

No amount of looking at photos of devastation could let us really understand the human situation. Satellite before and after shots show just how incredible the impact must be, enormous urban areas washed to rubble. Here’s a sample, but there are plenty more at the link above.

How could you rebuild after this? If [...]

From a Cisco article about parity errors :
Soft parity errors – these occur when an energy level within the chip (for example, a one or a zero) changes – most often the result of cosmic radiation.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/122/crashes_pmpe.html#softvshard – Just so you know I’m not making it up!

Over the holidays, we decided to start a vege patch. There was one there when we moved in, with a shrivelled capsicum, some small potato things, and chives. We ignored it and it got overgrown, and I got sick of its overgrownness a few months ago and did some of my favourite type [...]

According to Pseudorandom, the $350 million committed by the US government equates to roughly 42 hours worth of Iraq war expenditure.
As Colin Powell said when touring the area, this $350 million aid package certainly “does give the Muslim world and the rest of the world an opportunity to see American generosity, American values in action”
Of [...]

Closing the Deaf V Blind poll, of 7 votes 5 people would rather be deaf, leaving only me and one other person choosing blindness.
There’s a few reasons I would choose blindness. The first is of course music. Sure Beethoven was stone deaf when he penned some of his best work, but I’m just not [...]