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Providence is the ninth-riskiest housing "bubble." When prices dive will real estate taxes follow suit?

Gonzo gone: Talk Left -- the site of Denver-based criminal defense attorney Jeralyn Merritt -- has pulled together lots of Hunter S. Thompson sendoff threads.

Harbin Ice and Snow World 2005: Quinn at ambiguous.org writes,

I often feel like right now China is another world happening on the same planet, and I practically have to look at them through a telescope and guess what life is like. The Ice and Snow Festival of Harbin, China is a perfect example. It's absolutely huge and beautiful, from these pictures taken by R Todd King, but largely unknown way over here. It seems strange that so much work could happen in the world, and be unknown by another part of it.

Maybe it's because I'm seeing these February photos in August, but the dedication to ephemeral beauty on such a massive scale -- an entire city, from restaurants to handrails to slides -- built of ice and colorfully lit at night -- would seem impossible here. Is it safe? Of course not.
via BoingBoing

A game that's hard for computers, easy for people: Arimaa, "The Game of Real Intelligence"

In an attempt to show that computers are not even close to matching the kind of real intelligence used by humans in playing strategy games, we have created a new game called Arimaa. Here is a simple game that can be played using the same board and pieces provided in a standard Chess set. However the rules of the game are a bit different and suddenly the computers are left way behind. For humans the rules of Arimaa are very easy to understand and more intuitive than Chess, but to a computer the game is a thousand times more complex. To the best of our knowledge Arimaa is the first game that was designed intentionally to be difficult for computers to play.

Windows Keyboard Shortcuts: I've forgotten these many times over.

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