…But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can’t hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can’t hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.
Geek relationships certainly have a way of hitting odd bumps, and most of the time, they’re a lot of laughs. Sometimes, though, the eccentricities that come with the geek badge can land a guy in a lot of hot water. So, as a follow-up to my previous admonitory post, 10 Things NOT to Say During Geek Sex, I present 10 more things NOT to say during geek sex:
10. Hold on, I’m going to need another Red Bull if we’re going to try this.
9. You know the rules. Pics or it didn’t happen. Now, just hold that pose…
8. Oh, come on! The girl at Comic-Con wore it, and she was out in public!
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5 Ways to Spice Up Your Gmail Signature – Sometimes the same old email signature day in and day out just won’t cut it. If you’re a Gmail (Gmail) user looking for some ways to mix it up a bit, you’ve come to the right place. Here are five ways to spice up your Gmail signature.
16 Javascript Tutorials Inspired By Social Networking Sites – A compilation of great scripts that allow users to simulate social networking features on their own websites, including: dZone Voting Systems, Facebook Style Chat, Twitter-Like Searches.
17 Awesome Firefox Plugins For Twitter – Everyday we are noticing new Twitter tools are coming up. There are lots of Firefox plugins too for Twitter which will make your Twitter experience even better.
Chopping the Numeric Keypad off a Keyboard – Here are step-by-step directions for removing that irritating numeric keypad off a Microsoft Natural Keyboard. The project looks simple enough.
Codepad – Is a like a a collaborative debugging tool like Pastebin with a built-in compiler/interpreter. Read the rest of this entry » » »
1858
Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, along with the theory of Alfred Russel Wallace.
1890
The father of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft, is born at 9:00am in his family home at 194 Angell Street in Providence, Rhode Island. Insanity ensued.
1911
A message originating from the offices of The New York Times in New York City becomes the first cable message to complete a circuit of the globe, being passed through sixteen separate relays in the Azores, Gibraltar, India, Phillipines, Midway, Guam, Hawaii, and, finally, San Francisco. Transmitted as seven o’clock in the evening local time, the message, which reads simply, “This message sent around the world,” is returned to its original transmission point just sixteen minutes later, having traveled nearly twenty-nine thousand miles.
1912
Thomas Edison receives a patent for a “Phonographic Apparatus” and another for a “Storage Battery.” (US No. 1,036,470 and 1,036,471)
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We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
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