December 2009
44 posts
I listen to way too many podcast, and even...
WatchThank you for posting this, I just bought the album from Amazon mp3 for $5.00. Awesome. doug:
I’m required by law to re-blog this. Please don’t confuse this for a happy song.
A note to hip hop in 2010: do you see how well this worked out? I want much more of this. Work with musicians and producers from outside your label. Explore new territory. Sure, we’ll all be dead in 2-80 years, but if we...
I am presenting at this here math conference so... →
My worst idea of the night
doug:
Here’s an idea that should work well in offices. When someone asks a question you find redundant, laugh and say “Oh my god! What if someone was dumb enough to ask that?”
If you work in a mathematics department you will actually here that comment a few times a day. The real joy comes though when someone comes up with an ingenious and elegant theorem from one of those stupid questions.
Third beer's a charm.
yowhatsthehaps:
I feel funny.
I am on the third as well and I agree, you do feel funny.
Even in the internet age, physical location does... →
Mark Graham did a fascinating analysis of the geography of Wikipedia articles and finds that Discworld has more articles written about it than a lot of countries in Africa. Now THAT is a 3rd World Problem.
Watchcraxy:
I can’t decide if the prospect of having Vinnie Jones essentially stalking me in order to make me run faster is titillating or frightening.
Probably some of both.
I think that this video may make me believe in a higher power, because I can not think of a bigger miracle than this existing.
adamisacson:
Percentage of Americans who believe in angels: 55
Percentage of Americans who believe in evolution: 39
Percentage of Americans who believe in anthropogenic global warming: 36
Percentage of Americans who believe in ghosts: 34
Percentage of Americans who believe in UFOs: 34
- Blake Hounshell at Foreign Policy.
That explains pretty much everything.
He is watching me, I know it!
merlin:
A short course on surviving the web:
Everything’s amplified. Except subtlety.
Say things you believe are true.
No one understands; no one cares.
Never explain yourself.
Apologize less; think more.
Avatars aren’t people; people aren’t avatars; “friends” aren’t friends.
Everyone thinks you’re talking to them. Seriously.
Distinguish attacks against people from attacks against one...
WatchIf this is not made into a television series the whole world loses. (via io9)
Ok, so maybe Google really isn't evil →
: ‘I recently had a discussion with an engineer at Google and I pointed out a handful of people that I thought were fruitful in the industry and I proposed that we should hire these people,’ said Horowitz. ‘But [the engineer] stopped me and said: “These people are actually important to have outside of Google. They’re very Google people that have the right...
WatchOk Go performing C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips on Chica-Go-Go with Ira Glass on drums and Peter Sagal on bass. (thanks to Peter for remind me of this)
Story Time #1
On a far away planet name Nullin there are two races: the Nallis and the Tallis. They never got along very well as the Nallis favored logic and rigor above all else and the Tallis went in for straight creative expression. As time went by the Nallis became the dominate race on Nullin building huge edifices to the superiority of logic; large, gloomy, geometric shapes that even while touting their...
It's Story Time Kids
I just tossed up a post about the importance of the story in science over at ACME Science and I am here now to talk about the same kind of thing. There is nothing more important to a child than a story; it is how we all learned to grasp the least understandable parts of the world, it is what we heard before we were put to bed, and it is what we acted out in the play ground as Cowboys and Indians...
Greatest Historical Scientific Website? Yes, Just... →
Whether you want to read about Boyle transfusing blood from one dog to another, an eclipse of the sun in 1715, flying kites in the sun, or Captain James Hook’s methods for preserving the health of his crew it is all here and many more. Many thanks to the wonderful Royal Society and BoingBoing for the link.
