How to make money when you are drunk?

How to make money when you are drunk? Simple, start testing websites! This will be a good test for a UX designer's skills and to me, it seems to be a brilliant idea.

If Programming Languages were Harry Potter Characters

An interesting piece.

Spoiler alert. "C" is the one who shall not be named and "Python" is the hero.

When the fines are not just based on the crime, but also on your income?

Elsewhere, the fines are only based on the crime, but not in the Scandinavian countries. The income you make and your daily expense, are also key factors in deciding on the fine. So if you are a millionaire, then a speeding ticket might cost you as much as $100k!

Great, this means for me, the fines will be lot cheaper :-)

The days of Skynet are not far ...

“Kitty couldn’t fall asleep for a long time. Her nerves were strained as two tight strings, and even a glass of hot wine, that Vronsky made her drink, did not help her. Lying in bed she kept going over and over that monstrous scene at the meadow.”

The above lines are from a Russian Novel written by an algorithm.

Take this quiz and see whether you can detect the text is written by a human/computer. While computers are getting smarter everyday, as someone said, humans still can't figure out how to play video in their Linux system.

Why is Indian food delicious?

The IIT guys have figured out why Indian food is tasty. In short it is all about overlapping of flavors of the ingredients. More details are available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/03/a-scientific-explanation-of-what-makes-indian-food-so-delicious/?hpid=z4

Earth has a second moon

Interesting! all these years they told that moon is the only natural satellite to our planet. But now it seems another satellite. It orbits sun once a year, but it revolves earth once in 800 years. Although its small, just 5 kms length, if it hits earth, it will be end of all life forms.

Discover Magazine: The Second Moon