Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness
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This Wired article by Gary Greenberg is a fascinating look into the controversy surrounding the DSM-5, the latest proposed revision to the standardized system that…
Bleach: <span class="caps">HTML</span> Sanitization
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Bleach is a rather clever Python module for sanitizing HTML input and auto-linking URLs. It uses a whitelist for the allowed elements and attributes (thank God), and will…
Dinner Train in Vermont
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The dinner train I rode on in Vermont during a transit conference.
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Boston Rain
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A quick shot on my iPhone of the rain falling outside of the hotel where I stayed overnight when my flight home was cancelled.
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Dinner Train in Vermont - Dark
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The dinner train I rode on in Vermont during a transit conference. This shot is a bit closer and darker, which I like alot, even though you miss out on the landscape.
LOL-Plane
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Yes, I had to fly in this for part of my trip.
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Feds to Let Citizens Log In With Yahoo, Google, Paypal Accounts (via OpenID)
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This is an enormous win for OpenID, but it is also a huge risk if anything goes wrong with such a high-profile project. Obviously, it will all depend on the implementation,…
Technology Review: Quantum Cryptography for the Masses
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By masses, of course, they mean companies that can afford the hardware, but this is still a pretty huge development in pushing quantum computing out of the lab and into the…
Making Babies in Space May Be Harder Than It Sounds | Wired Science | Wired.com
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This Wired article documents an interesting experiment to test the effect of zero gravity on embryo fertilization and development, but the methodology seems flawed to me,…
Reality TV Host Boosted Ratings By Murdering People - Television - io9
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Last year, his bodyguard was arrested for the murders of five men, whom he claimed Souza had ordered him to kill so that they could “discover” them on [his] show. Souza…
