sublimeguile things I find interesting

Posts from March 2008

Posted
29 March 2008 @ 12pm

Tagged
links

links for 2008-03-29

2.009 Product Engineering Processes: Archimedes
MIT students trying to recreate Archimedes death ray from 250 BC. They describe him as a “a notably smart person”
(tags: history)


Fossil Fuels

A couple of weeks ago I was reading A Many-Colored Glass by Freeman Dyson. Its a collection partly of his Page-Barbour lectures and a bunch of other ones. Dyson is the father of Esther and George, who you might also know.
Dyson is a Physicist, or as the MIT boys descibed Archimedes when they […]


Programming Concept: Fractal Tasks

A fractal is something that has never ending detail. Looking at the thing from a distance the over all shape is clear. But the closer you look at it, the more details are revealed. The blue picture on the right, for example, is a picture of the Mandelbrot set. The red […]


Hillary: About Face

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }
.flickr-yourcomment { }
.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }
.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }

Hillary: About Face, originally uploaded by The Searcher.


Fantasy Baseball: Endless Drama

The best thing about fantasy baseball is that everyone is here because they want to be. It’s not Just a Job, no one is doing it for the money. I’m only tangentially involved — those of you who know me are not surprised to learn that I’m way more interesting in the math […]


Posting from YouTube catches up

I posted those videos mostly on Thursday and Friday through YouTube’s share interface, and they just showed up now. I think from now on I do it by “hand”.


Acrobatic geckos steer with their tails

Acrobatic geckos steer with their tails


Is this really helping?

Is this really helping?


Bring Your Own Big Wheel

Bring Your Own Big Wheel

I’m not normally a fan on the left coast, but this is an event I’m sad to miss.


Get Lamp trailer

Jason has just released a new trailer for Get Lamp. I’ve actually watched the full BBS Documentary a couple of times, which may say something about me, but I actually got Robin to watch a bunch of it with me, which probably says something about how well Jason makes documentaries. (I’ve I’m not […]


Richard Dawkins reviews Expelled

The whole tone of the film is whiny, paranoid — pathetic really. The narrator is somebody called Ben Stein. I had not heard of him, but apparently he is well known to Americans, for it is hard to see why else he would have been chosen to front the film. He certainly can’t have been […]


Incarcerex

The solution for every struggling politician:


Video interview about getting Expelled from Expelled

You know that Ben Stein creationism movie we talked about before? Here’s a video of PZ Myers talking with Richard Dawkins about how Myers got Expelled from a screening of Expelled, but they let in his guest Richard Dawkins. Slick PR work there!


Change Congress launched by Lessig

From Lessig himself.


Posted
22 March 2008 @ 12pm

Tagged
links

links for 2008-03-22

Fake. You Are Not Dead, A Guide To Modern Living.
(tags: art)

Game Plan Energy Literacy
(tags: design energy green)

Apple - Trailers - Standard Operating Procedure - Trailer
(tags: documentary photography)


← Before