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'Alex & Me': The Parrot Who Said 'I Love You' : NPR
Although his brain was no bigger than a walnut, Alex the African gray parrot could do more than speak and understand — he could also count, identify colors and, according to his owner Irene Pepperberg, develop an emotional relationship. When Alex died in September 2007, his last words to Pepperberg were "You be good. I love you."
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The WHY of WAT | Platformability
Recently a talk given by Gary Bernhardt at CodeMash has been doing the rounds. In it, he pokes fun at some apparently crazy behaviours in Ruby and Javascript.
While I might not be able to persuade you that all of the things he complains about make sense, I hope I’ll be able to show you some of the reasons that javascript behaves as it does. -
Twitter's targeted blocking tool spurs uproar
Twitter Inc. has played a central communications role in protests from Egypt to Wall Street, but the microblogging service became the target of an uprising this week after announcing a new way to censor individual tweets in specific countries.
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