More like, Microsoft determined that people who chat actively on MSN messenger are linked by 6.6 degrees of separation. It's just not as interesting a story with those pesky details added in, is it?
Basically any note played on an analog instrument has a set of overtones of various frequencies. If these tones were played a bit louder, you would hear a chord rather than a single note.
good programmers are forced to program simply so that future generations of bad programmers can read their code.
Is this necessarily a bad thing? I generally try follow the "code such that nearly anyone can understand" mantra. Helps keep things simple and concise.
This is cool and all, but what's the utility? You can already isolate individual windows and arbitrary screen regions with the built-in OS X screenshot grabber.
And the contention is that we can observe this because certain high-precision experiments might be picking up anomalies on the scale of a Planck length, whereas we shouldn't theoretically be able to detect anything so small. Therefore, what we're detecting must be an enlarged projection of what's actually there.
This happens to me as well. Sometimes I also hear random disconnected sounds: a bell, pots clanging, voices, etc. There have been many nights where I've actually struggled to sleep through all the cacophony.