October 2011
6 posts
August 2011
4 posts
July 2011
3 posts
April 2010
7 posts
Stealing Mona Lisa →
I could hear more about this story.
March 2010
11 posts
“Thumbnail hottie: person who looks cute in their Twitter/FB icon but not so...”
– Twitter / Jason Kottke: Thumbnail hottie: person w …
“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who...”
SpongeBob SquarePants and the seven deadly sins →
I always knew that show had many underlying layers of meaning. Yeah, that has to be why I like it. Has to be.
How the Health Care Overhaul Could Affect You -... →
The Curated Web | The American Prospect →
Digital curation is going to be an increasingly important aspect of the social web. As the amount of information continues to increase, one will need to turn to new tools to keep up with it all. As for myself, I’ve moved from RSS to Twitter, but this article argues for Tumblr as the future of curation on the web.
December 2009
1 post
Climate Change Deniers vs The Consensus |... →
Excellent and informative info-graphic on the two opposing sides of the climate change debate.
August 2009
14 posts
Can Game Theory Predict When Iran Will Get the... →
Fascinating article, but I have my doubts. Computational models of behavior and negotiations cannot model irrational behavior nor do they take into account how the very predictions themselves can be an influence in the events they are predicting.
By T.R. Reid -- Five Myths About Health Care in... →
Texas Board of Education Wants to Change History |... →
About the desire of the far religious right in this country to want to rewrite history to serve their own political and religious motives.
Computer-trading worries grow as NYSE builds new... →
From a computing perspective, I think HFT is fascinating. From a practical perspective, I think it is damn scary.
Test Page to use Syntax Highlighter →
def add(x, y): return x + y; def main(): x = 5; y = 7; z = sum(x, y) if __name__ == "__main__": main()
at the IMAX theater watching the new Harry Potter movie
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Language Log ยป Deontic illogic →
Questioning a content analysis of the House Democrats’ Health Care bill by The National Taxpayers Union.
A Reporter at Large: The Interpreter : The New... →
I started reading this and couldn’t stop. I wasn’t familiar with the writer, John Colapinto, but this piece was excellent.
How Different Groups Spend Their Day - Interactive... →
Very neat data visualization about how we spend our time as Americans. Data apparently comes from the American Time Use Survey.
July 2009
16 posts
TheRecord.com - CanadaWorld - WCI student isolates... →
If this could be done on a large scale, this would be monumental.
Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming... →
