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Take a look at this image; the original is infinitely larger than the thumbnail:

As big as an image scaled infinityx seems, any mathematician knows there are at least two numbers larger than infinity.
And when Google discovers them, it will become se…

Trust them to be computer savvy? Your first mistake.
This week, I talked with Dan Russell, a search anthropologist at Google, about the time he spends with random people studying how they search for stuff. One statistic blew my mind. 90 percent of peo…

A little QA power ballad from Soundgarden:

Mean people make more money:

It may not pay to be nice in the workplace.
A new study finds that agreeable workers earn significantly lower incomes than less agreeable ones. The gap is especially wide for men.
The researchers examined “agreeableness

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Come on: we’re all submitting budgets for next year with a line item for trained elephant, aren’t we?

Into every life, some Weird Al must fall:

Not to put too fine a point on it, but that song is from his debut album from 1983, which is 28 years ago. That would make it a, what’s the word I’m looking for here, oh, yeah, oldie. It’s like listen…

Don’t have enough money in the budget for adequate QA, including penetration testing? How much do you have in your total bank account, then? Hackers Shift Attacks to Small Firms:

Recent hacking attacks on Sony Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. grabb…

Remind me again, why are we here?

Let’s all play Abraham Ward:
During WWII, Hungarian-born mathematician Abraham Wald undertook a study with the British Air Ministry to use statistical analysis to help protect bombers flying over enemy territory. The data to be crunched included the …

The Mechanical Turk was a chess-playing device constructed in the 18th century that used a complex set of gears and pistons and whatnot to play chess. Well, it used those things to convey the impression that it was playing chess. Instead, a man sat h…