Google+ and Facebook  Tags: randomthought.
I was thinking about how Facebook got so popular here in the Netherlands when we had Hyves (and myspace and linkedin and friendster and stuff). I remembered how FB was only for college students or something, which made it exclusive and everyone wanted to join. When they had quite a market share, they went public. Or that's how I've heard it went.

Google+ is just doing the same! It's exclusive now, and when a lot of people have it they make it public.
Exclusiveness is not just a smart

About disabling Javascript  Tags: my blog, websites, webdevelopment.
If you don't have javascript in your browser, you will not be able to fully make use of this website. I'm sorry for that, I tried to make things work best I could. If you have any problems navigating or reading, feel free to contact me. You can stop reading now if this is the case.

If you have disabled javascript yourself, you have succesfully put your browser in a wheelchair. Congratulations!
The web nowadays gets more and more dynamic, and you are slowing down the dynamicness. I myself have NoScript installed in Firefox, but I only occasionally use it for website with scrolling stuff and javascript-toolbars which annoy me.

AIBox Experiment  Tags: AI.
I read about the AIBox experiment by Eliezer Yudkowsky a while ago and was intrigued by it. For the ones who don't know the experiment, you can read all about it on yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox. In summary, it comes down to this:
An AI has (been) developed and has mental capabilities beyond ours. The only way to communicate with it is via a text-only terminal (e.g. IRC), and a human called the Gatekeeper is chatting with the AI.