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• Queensland lawyer Alex Stewart smokes pages from the Koran and Bible | News.com.au - Annotated

  tags: culture

  • A BRISBANE-based lawyer and atheist who videoed himself smoking what appeared to be joints made with pages from the Bible and the Koran expects to lose his job at a Queensland university.
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    In the video, posted on YouTube, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) staffer Alex Stewart compares cigarettes made with pages from the two holy texts.
    
    In the clip, titled "Bible or Koran - which burns best?", the professed atheist says burning religious books is no big deal and people need to get over it.

• BBC News - How good software makes us stupid

  "The most interesting [study] had people who hadn't had experience with the web begin to use Google, for just an hour a day, and begin searching and surfing."
  
  The results showed how even just a small amount of use triggered varying patterns of brain activity.

  tags: technology

• Creating a Google Chrome Extension is as Easy as 1-2-3 - Annotated

  Chrome Extension allows 3rd-party developers to add new functionality to the Google Chrome browser. Did you know, all that it takes to develop a Google Chrome Extension is HTML, CSS, JavaScript and an icon. Sounds doable right? Let’s see how easy it is to create a ‘World Clock/Time’ Chrome Extension.

  tags: programming

  • hrome Extension allows 3rd-party developers to add new functionality to the Google Chrome browser. Did you know, all that it takes to develop a Google Chrome Extension is HTML, CSS, JavaScript and an icon. Sounds doable right? Let’s see how easy it is to create a ‘World Clock/Time’ Chrome Extension.

• Google search index splits with MapReduce • The Register

  tags: technology

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