Dec 20, 2007

Ten Computing Tips

Posted in Geek at 12:00 pm by David Bradley -- 2 Comments; add yours

Seeing as the holiday season is fast approaching, I thought I’d offer an extra post covering some of the browsing and blogging tips and tricks I run on the Significant Figures site at Sciencetext.com. On that site I used to mainly discuss inappropriate unit conversions, sloppy statistical use, and dodgy typos in the media and still do occasionally.

For instance, there was a lot of press on …

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Dec 18, 2007

Male Semen is Redundant

Posted in Geek at 8:30 pm by David Bradley -- 10 Comments; add yours

You’ve seen the kind of thing: “Warehouse Razed to the Ground in Fire”, as if razing didn’t already mean the building was levelled. Worse, “Balloon Ascends Up into the Air”, ascending down is very difficult, simultaneously, at the same time, if not impossible; so too is descending up.

However, the award for the most redundantly tautological headline of the year has to go to Scientific American for …

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Dec 5, 2007

8 Squeezes for Your iPhone Battery

Posted in Geek at 4:00 pm by David Bradley -- 8 Comments; add yours

If you’ve just bought an iPhone, you’re probably expecting many happy years of battery power. Well, not so fast. Laptop batteries are very similar to rechargeable batteries in other devices, they wear out. I’ve had my current laptop for about 18 months and in the last few weeks I’ve noticed that I’m not getting quite the battery life from it that I was when I …

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