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Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? How can we tell? Also, check out these live webcams. Look at the center of the collider in the top image. It’s hard to tell the scale of it without considering what a person would look like on one of those gantries. Thanks to everyone in [...]

Jim MacDonald at Making Light has a good bit up about comment moderation.  (You can read some of my own thoughts on the matter here, here and here.)  MacDonald wrote this post in reference to a Time Magazine piece wherein Time’s editors apparently realized there was such a thing as “comments” on this thing called [...]

Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow writes… I’m not sure what Chinese string this restaurateur fed to the translation software used to to generate the giant sign hanging over the entrance, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t: TRANSLATE SERVER ERROR. Ah, the special problems of translations into other alphabets. via