September 2011
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Fewer women in technology now than in 1991
I was reminded of an article I read a few months ago about the “real reason women quit engineering.” Stemming The Tide: Why Women Leave Engineering summarizes the findings of a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee study of 3,700 women with engineering degrees.
They found that just one in four women who had left the field reported doing so to spend more time with family. And,...
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“Ascending degrees of strangeness…”
– ▓▒░ TORLEY ░▒▓ reveals a portal to the unknown.
Mel’s Hole is a multi-layered mystery that defies explanation.
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Ich bin ein car-burner
via lelapin:
Via News of the World
A strange crime wave that could influence the city’s elections ONCE a burning firelighter is placed against a tyre, it takes a few minutes for a car to ignite, giving the arsonist plenty of time to escape. That is one reason why police are clueless about who is behind a rash of car-burnings that is unsettling Berlin in the run-up to a city election on...
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More fun with 1usa gov data →
adamlaiacano:
I took another look through the 1.usa.gov data, this time to see if there is a difference in the distribution of browsers between the different top-level domains (nasa.gov, fbi.gov, weather.gov, etc.).
First let’s take a look at the overall browser usage for the data that I’ve collected.
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mkempe:
♩ I got those reviewin’ on Quora blues
♪ mmm those endless queues
♫ gotta do it late at night
♬ make the world helpful tonight
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Hazardous Passwords
I subscribe to webcomic xkcd, but somehow miss all the best posts.
I found this on the 404 Tech Support blog. Also posted there was a very readable research study [PDF] about the hazards of selecting passwords that were so lengthy or obscure that they defied the ability of the account owner to recall them.
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“It’s not great that they are tracking out cookies… but is it really that...”
– 99% of UK gov websites are breaking the law
Via Chaotic Planet
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sheeper:
J.S. Bach: French Suite No. 5 in G...
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