Too stupid to understand science?
February 8th, 2010Do you think Mac Time Capsule hourly backups are a little excessive?
January 24th, 2010Change the frequency of Time Capsule backup by editing the following le with your text editor of choice
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto.plist
And looking for the section
<key>StartInterval</key>
<integer>3600</integer>
The value 3600 specifies the backup interval in seconds (i.e. 1 hour). Change this value to whatever you see fit – I have changed it to 14400 (or 4 hours).
Needless to say, proceed with caution when editing you Mac’s system settings, and if you do mess up it’s nothing to do with me, right?
Why has this movie not been made?
January 17th, 2010…a fictional 2006 FIFA World Cup Finale between Germany and Netherlands. When the team from Germany loses, they send out as revenge a Zombie invasion
Why? God dammnit why?
My airport shuttle never rendevoused at the extraction point, leaving me defenceless behing enemy lines
January 14th, 2010You came to the wrong neighbourhood…..
January 13th, 2010
How homeopathy works
January 7th, 2010Click the image below to embiggen. Another picture from those lovely people at b3ta.com.
Apollo Moon Landings Hoaxed: Ultimate Proof
January 5th, 2010LIZ JONES SHUT THE FUCK UP!
December 30th, 2009I hate Liz Jones of the Daily Mail, and if you want to hate her or find out why I hate her I suggest you read one of her more objectionable articles.
Machinarium
December 29th, 2009Machninarium is a beautiful point and click adventure game by the independant Czech game developer studio Amanita Design: help a young robot find his way back into a vast industrial city and find his best friend, solving puzzles along the way!
The game is available for Mac, PC and Linux and can be downloaded for £12 / $20 / € 14, along with an MP3 soundtrack.
The picture below links to the Machinarium site and a browser playable demo of the game. If you’re going to waste ten minutes of your time, do it by playing the demo of this lovely game.
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The Dunning–Kruger effect, and it explains a lot……
December 28th, 2009The definition of the Dunning-Kruger effect, aken from Wikipedia:
…is a cognitive bias in which “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it”…
Which can be summarised as:
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
This explains a lot, don’t you think?
