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vilqqu··on Silent Teacher – A game to learn how to code
This seems fun. I'd be interested to hear how people who have never programmed before react to, and cope with the 'puzzle'. I didn't find any information beside the game itself.
vilqqu··on U.K. National Grid status
State of the Nordic Power System (Click 'Table' for more information): http://driftsdata.statnett.no/Web/map/snpscustom

The data seem to be a few minutes old, and doesn't have history (which would be nice).

vilqqu··on Finnish Tax Administration: Instructions on Bitcoin income tax
I'm not an expert, but here's my summary: Profits from bitcoins are taxed as capital gain, except for profits gained from mining or games, which are taxed as earned income.
vilqqu··on Disable Facebook Chat Seen Status - Chrome Extension
I don't know why that is, but you can get around it by creating an empty list of friends and adding it to the 'Turn on chat for only some friends...' section of the advanced chat settings.
vilqqu··on The Human Brain Project
The project received one billion euros funding today http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/programme/fet/flagship/doc/p...
vilqqu··on Indian Railways, live on Google Maps
Previous discussion on mapping trains: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4595208
vilqqu··on Google can be used as a graphic calculator
I use Wolfram Alpha to check if I solved my math assignments correctly. Can you solve e.g. limes with Google? I tried a couple of syntaxes but nothing.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=limes+%28x%5E3%2Bx%29%2...

vilqqu··on The process behind our startup's logo design - draftswork shown
Maybe it's just my dirty mind but it looks like a boob.