February 2008
January 2008
“Woman: I’m leaving you.
Man: Who is he?
This dialog is easy to...”
– Implicit Understanding and Inference in Language
“A team of researchers at UC Berkeley has created a plastic microfiber that...”
– Superpowers: New Adhesive Microfiber Gloves Let You Scale Glass Walls
Three Science Fiction Novels Recommended by... →
“2.0 Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine WC Fields...”
– Schmidtt Pain Index
“The debate isn’t security versus privacy. It’s liberty versus...”
– Security vs. Privacy is really Control vs. Liberty - Boing Boing
“Need to finish that work project, and wish you had the mental intensity to do...”
– Neuroscience: One Pill Makes You Autistic — And One Pill Changes You Back
“Because the long-run success of a song depends so sensitively on the decisions...”
– Justin Timberlake - Culture - Hollywood - Idea Lab - New York Times
Studio 360: Nikola Tesla: Strange Genius →
“The researchers acknowledge that chameleons do use color-change for crypsis, or...”
– Mad Zoology: Chameleons Use Color to Communicate, Not Hide
“It’s the size of your thumb and it can spray flesh-melting poison. We...”
– The 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World
“So Bush’s inspiring, prosyletizing Methodist is in fact a silver-tongued horse...”
– The Illustrated Presidency (via kottke)
WatchTED | Talks | Hod Lipson: Robots that are “self-aware” (video)
“A truth that reigns without checks and balances is a tyrant who must be...”
– Feyerabend Reading Assignment
io9. Strung out on science fiction. →
Teller Talks: The Art of Misdirection →
I would embed the video but I can’t.
“I think one would agree that Britney seems at risk right now,” Washington adds....”
– The Daily Swarm - Britney Spears’ obituary already written…
“The most massive known black hole in the universe has been discovered, weighing...”
– Biggest black hole in the cosmos discovered
“So, here’s me in 2008, watching a show from 1953 about what it’s going to be...”
– And Yet Still No Rocket Car to the Moon
Flickr: The Commons →
“The first school shooter of the 1990s was an Asian boy who played the violin.”
– n+1
“Melancholia, far from a mere disease or weakness of will, is an almost...”
– In Praise of Melancholy
“I can sum it all up in three words: Evolution is a lie”
– Charlie’s Diary: An Explanation For Everything
“To Shiv’s surprise, the people who paid discounted prices consistently...”
– The Frontal Cortex : Expensive Wine Tastes Better
“So what are we to conclude? That our observed universe is not a statistical...”
– Boltzmann’s Universe | Cosmic Variance
Core Memory →
Photos from the Computer History Museum
“In a medical first, University researchers have created a beating heart in the...”
– Researchers create a new heart in the lab
WatchWeekend Plans from Riegel & Blatt
“The intervening galaxy is essentially acting like a lens, bending the light. If...”
– Einstein’s Double Bulls-eye
“‘An enthusiast about going to fires’ (Webster 1934); so called from the buff...”
– BUFF
Angry White Man →
Ron Paul’s many and deep connections to the worst elements of the far right.
“It was clear from the results that students in these two schools use yo as a...”
– A NEW GENDER-NEUTRAL PRONOUN IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND: A PRELIMINARY STUDY — Stotko and Troyer 82 (3): 262 — American Speech (via languagehat)