Chrome can't open html files?!
I ran into a funny bug today trying to open an HTML file in Chrome. Could’ve sworn the “HTML document” format is what Chrome does :)
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Finally a critic actually paying attention during Avatar
Only children-including adult-children-will see Avatar as simply an adventure film; their own love of technology has co-opted their ability to comprehend narrative detail. Cameron offers sci-fi dazzle, yet bungles the good part: the meaning. His undeniably pretty Pandora-a phosphorescent Maxfield Parrish paradise with bird-like lizards, moving plant life and floating mountains-distracts from the inherent contradiction of a reported $300-$500 million Hollywood enterprise that casually berates America's industrial complex.
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Math and Theology FAIL: Bayesian statistics proves the resurrection!
Ah math. Is there nothing you can't prove?
- The probably of God's existence is one in two (since God either exists or doesn't exist).
- The probability that God became incarnate is also one in two (since it either happened or it didn't).
- The evidence for God's existence is an argument for the resurrection.
- The chance of Christ's resurrection not being reported by the gospels has a probability of one in 10.
- Considering all these factors together, there is a one in 1,000 chance that the resurrection is not true.
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Scripting twitter with Rhino
I just put together a little framework to help writing scripts against twitter streams called cltwitter. It’s pretty basic right now but the idea is that the framework handles grabbing the twitter stream you specify and then passing the stream through a set of filters you write.
It’s written in Rhino (javascript on top of the JVM) so the filters are in nice simple javascript and you can use any java libraries you might like (there’s a few of them out there).
At the moment there are three filters, one that strips everything but urls from the tweet, one that expands any shortened urls in the tweet, and one that posts any tweets with urls to delicious. Since filters can be combined (the output of the one filter goes into the input of the next – like unix pipes), this allows us to do some neat things like expanding all urls and then posting them to delicious.
If you’re interested I have a git repository available on github. If you don’t want to mess around with git there’s a zip file here you can use. Just unzip it an do what the README tells you.
Hope you find this useful.
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