Jonah Lehrer wrote a pretty great article for Wired about Mohan Srivastava, a statistician with degrees from MIT and Stanford University, who figured out the patterns behind a bunch of different scratch lottery tickets and could, as a result, predict the winners (without scratching the cards - just by looking ... Read more »

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How does this not look like the most fun you could have on water? A water-propelled jet pack? Are you kidding me? AH! The JetLev Flyer, invented by Raymond Li and manufactured by JetLev Sports in Florida, launching in March 2011 for $99,500 USD, with 250 hp providing a top speed ... Read more »

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So this is my dream from last night: I went back to school. Taking like a 12 week course or something. Sitting in a huge auditorium the first day. Realizing the course ends in mid-February. Wasn't happy about that. Chatted with some students in front of me. Then the class ended and I walked into a gymnasium. And ... Read more »

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Courtesy of my brother, the TurBaconEpic (a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig), for those who give thanks for gluttony this weekend: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc5wIpUenQ[/youtube]Related posts: Go ahead. Make sense of this dream. Read more »

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[nerd] I was cleaning through some old stuff and came across this user agreement for Chebucto Community Net. I had to print it and mail it to them with a photocopy of my ID or a personal cheque before they'd activate my internet account. Oh, 1998. You were SO last century. You ... Read more »

This is great. Google TV Ads is a new service that allows you to create an advertisement, upload it to Google, and place a bid to air it on specific TV channels or TV shows. Pretty crazy. The world gets flatter every day. Slate V documents the entire process from start to ... Read more »

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