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So I've recently finished making a list of 3000 parallel universe, many of which deal with alternate histories, societies, arts, biology, that kind of stuff. I think it's funny, and I liked them as I was making them up, but after doing this for a month I can't even tell anymore...

Let's say its 1996, you're 40 years old and have 3 kids. You just bought a state of the art windows 95 machine which doesn't have internet access. The kids use it to play game and write school papers. But how do you use it? (let's assume your job doesn't require you to work at home). I'm...

In the narrative of the 20th Century both of the World Wars are treated as galvanizing events that shifted modern societies. Because of WWI, the story goes, there was a radical change in art and belief in the West, and because of WWII, technology and social advancement took a massive leap. And...

I just got a new laptop with average-to-high specs and it is incredibly noisy. The fan is nearly always on and chug, chug, chuggin' along, even when the only program open is Google Chrome and the PC reports the CPU usage is only, say 15% and the Physical memory is at 35%. My old laptop never...

What do you consider to be your heritage? Along what lines? When you think of 'your' past, do you primarily think of your actual biological ancestors, the history of your country, your city, the history of your culture, your language, your class, the entire world, ... Though I suppose this...

I just got a brand new laptop charger and battery. When I plug them in, the PC says that it is "plugged in, charging"... And yet the battery's charge is actually going on. I had the exact same problem in the last few days with my old battery and charger. Wjat in the world is going on and what...

When people discuss old social norms, they often express outrage over perceived inequalities of the past, particularly those faced by certain groups such as Blacks, women, or gays in the mid 20th century. At the same, other people, in response to such commentators, usually answer that you...

Before I begin this post, a few youtube videos: I57Zfd8wsAA CYSe2KvQHnE vU198NkK4c oqZBTM6LlzM For those who are unfamiliar with it, Bioshock is a video game series set in a 'retro art deco'-inspired world which features 'old-style' music recorded from about 1930 to 1960. The above...

Prevelance of electronic messaging? Hypertext Usenet Random PC musings... Time Magazine -- Computers of the Future What to do with all those MIPS The Ultimate Interface The Future of Networks Happy New Decade! A couple of links and quotes to/from Usenet Messages from the 1980s and early...

I've been having internet connection issues lately, so to find out the problem I did a 'Remote Access Diagnostic Report'. I have no idea what that is, but it sounded helpful. Anyways, on the report there was a long string of Chinese text. I have included it as an attachment. I tried translating...

Let's say there were an alternate universe which exactly mirrored our own, with the exception that their calendar began 163 years before ours (an arbitrary date). In this alternate Universe, we in 2010 are in the year 2173, 1950 was 2113, WWII was in the years 2102-2108, WWI 2077-2081, 1900 was...

Quick, potentially dumb question that google couldn't answer. If, in many modern democracies, there is a seperation of church and state, why are clergy members allowed to participate in government by voting?

It is a cliched idea that, since other societies have different values and believe in them very strongly, it is arrogant to judge them. After all, we have our own values which are ridiculous to them as well. But is this true? What with "the West's" long history of scientific advancement, moral...

For the last two days, my home wireless network has not been broadcasting (on wireless devices, it doesn't appear on the list of available networks), and I can't figure out why. The wired network (which passes through my wireless router) is fine, so I don't think it's an internet problem. I...

Why is illegally downloading movies and music considered immoral, when borrowing the exact same thing from a library is acceptable? Both are free (in my area, at least), and some public libraries have huge collections of movies and music from all genres available. Downloading a movie or song has...

There are a ton of old European regions which, if you look at a modern map of Europe, do not seem to exist any more. Many of them had distinct cultures and clear borders, and until relatively recently, where still part of the culture (Christopher Isherwood for example references Prussian...

I've been reading about aritificial organs lately, and I'm surprised by how much it could be possible to copy. We could already do quite a few body parts already, such as eyes, limbs, bones, and hearts, and eventually we'll probably be able to do much more. But I'm wondering, how much is too...

Link This is probably the most surprising news story I've read in a while. A major, mainstream Christian Church (well, in Sweden), is allowing same-sex marriage! My, er, 'faith in humanity' is being boosted.

Let's say that, using modern computer technology, a handheld device was designed that was exactly as powerful as a PC from the early 1980s. As an example let's use the first IBM PC (5150), which had 16~64 KB memory, a 10MB 'hard disk' ("IBM 5161 Expansion Chassis"), and a 4.77 Mhz Intel 8088...

I am currently in the middle of a surprisingly polite 'discussion' with a anti-homosexual, on the comments section of a YouTube video (YouTube video). We're debating on the merits of homosexuality. The other user says its wrong because its unnatural, I say that doesn't matter. I'm going to post...