Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-22-2009

[andrewducker]

• The New Science of Causation
  Combining AI and statistics to get a better picture of causation.
  (tags: statistics AI causality science)
• The fat that makes you thin
  A mere 50 grams of brown fat - well within the range of what some of us already have - could dissipate around 500 calories a day
  (tags: fat health biology)
• Linus calls Linux 'bloated and huge'
  Time to switch to HURD!
  (tags: linux LinusTorvalds software)
• Gamers Play Fallout â” In the Real World - Nuclear Apocalypse
  Bloody hell. This is impressive.
  (tags: gaming larp impressive)
• Twelve Virtues of Rationality
  (tags: philosophy rationality thinking learning logic)
• Suicide bum-blast bombing startles Saudi prince
  It has emerged that a fanatical al-Qaeda suicide terrorist attempted to kill a Saudi interior minister last month by concealing a bomb up his bottom (the terrorist's, not the minister's). The strategy backfired, so to speak, as the bum-bomber's own body muffled the deadly arse-blast and his target escaped with only minor injuries.
  (tags: EpicFail terrorism explosions SaudiArabia)

Comments

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Time to reinstall S.T.A.L.K.E.R. methinks.

And that's definitely STALKER larping going on there, not Fallout. The trusty 'bolt' shot gives the game away :)

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Twelve Virtues of Rationality

Very nice. How long has this been about?

[andrewducker]

I think that's a new one. I check in on his stuff occasionally - but got this one through ciphergoth

[nameandnature]

Since 2006, according to the copyright. It was linked from Overcoming Bias a bit, back in the day.

[simont]

by concealing a bomb up his bottom

Arse longa, vita brevis.

[andrewducker]

Ouch!