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Test your Sobriety with Calculus

christian — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:59:35 +0000

I was browsing the XKCD blog and ran into Randall’s mention of “Google’s sobriety test” (quotes are Randall’s own words):

WTF?!? Even sober, fully conscious and on the mental and intellectual prime, I wouldn’t be able to solve those fast enough…if at all. Dangnabit, I’ve been a computer engineer for more than half a decade and I’ve never had to use integral calculus in my job. I mean, n from 1 to 89pi? How do you even do that? (RE: Don’t answer that. It’s rhetorical and I could always look up my college calculus notes if I bother to want the answer).

Beware of Bloggers

christian — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:00:06 +0000

You cannot contain them, unless you shut down the ISPs. Or attack the sites, which of course, will backfire, because you cannot afford to piss off the blogosphere.

In spite of the earthquake, China’s Great Firewall still very much active

christian — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:03:26 +0000

It’s no secret that China is censoring the internet over there, encouraging netizens to "advance harmony". But with the recent earthquake (and more recent aftershock) in Sichuan province, the Chinese blogosphere was mostly empathic, thus eliminating the need to "shut up dissidents."

However, when bloggers start to criticize the less than sympathetic response of some entities, the cutesy Jing Jing and Chacha (guardians of–gasp–Chinese online harmony) pounced to do their jobs.

It’s nice to know that China does not let a natural disaster get in its way of doing things.

(SARCASM)

Link to article via Wired.