archive | February, 2010

How to play Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock

Samuel Kass invented this modification of the popular Rock-Paper-Scissors game in 1998 to lower the perceived probability of 75-80% of games played between friends ending in ties.

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Video: The Known Universe as mapped by the American Museum of Natural History

In this video the Digital Universe Atlas was used to position every single satellite, moon, planet, star, and galaxy to scale and is in its correct, measured location according to the best scientific research to date.

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Importing or Exporting comma-separated (CSV) and other text-based files to / from MySQL databases

If you need to import data from CSV or other text-based files to a MySQL database or vice-versa, you can use the LOAD DATA or SELECT INTO OUTFILE statements explained in this post.

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Video: Steve Wozniak – How I Invented the Personal Computer

A video of Steve Wozniak discussing one of the chapters from his book, iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon, How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It.

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