November 2009
74 posts
WatchHollywood vs. New York « Goodie Bag
Some choice quotes from climate gate (the leaked...
First person account here. Who needs King Bush to undermine science when the scientists are doing it themselves?
“I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is !”
“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years...
node.js ircd →
sztanpet's aoibot at master - GitHub →
json-template - Project Hosting on Google Code →
Streaming file uploads with node.js » Debuggable... →
simonw's nodecast at master - GitHub →
Introducing Resque - GitHub →
malkomalko's mongo-node-driver at master - GitHub →
Basic Maths →
Simon Cozens | Mail learning: the what and the how →
Sitepoint : New Articles, Fresh Thinking for Web... →
Teach the Controversy - Intelligently designed... →
“Try this thought experiment. A dictator takes over the US and sends all the...”
– Re: What You Can’t Say
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– Build your entrepreneurial confidence. Try these tips on for size. | JonBischke.com (via igrigorik)
“(864): A moment of silence for all our pussy whips bro’s who had to endure...”
– texts from last night
“In an experiment led by researchers at the University of Houston and reported at...”
– Phys Ed: Why Exercise Makes You Less Anxious - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
They insouciantly explored.
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“The conclusions have often been backed up by careful scientific exploration. For...”
– Scientist at Work - Nathan Myhrvold - After Microsoft, Bringing a High-Tech Eye to Professional Kitchens - NYTimes.com
“The book presents some concepts like wet bulb temperature that will be new to...”
– Scientist at Work - Nathan Myhrvold - After Microsoft, Bringing a High-Tech Eye to Professional Kitchens - NYTimes.com
“That’s awesome. What would an igonvalue actually be? Maybe it could be...”
– Igon Value Problems Over Dilettante Matrices : The Quantum Pontiff
“I wondered about the basis of Pinker’s conclusion, so I e-mailed him, asking if...”
– gladwell.com: Pinker on “What the Dog Saw.”
More Gladwell being a tool. It’s pretty funny that he blithely side steps the main argument and instead defines a small point using ad hominem attacks. (And of course, Steve Sailer joins in on the comments.)
The main argument, that...
“An eclectic essayist is necessarily a dilettante, which is not in itself a bad...”
– Book Review - ‘What the Dog Saw - And Other Adventures,’ by Malcolm Gladwell - Review - NYTimes.com
Or, “Steven Pinker don’t much care for the writings of Malcolm Gladwell” (via Kottke)
“I am sitting in the Stata Center at MIT taking a breather from serving as a...”
– iGEM 2009: In the thick of it. - synthesis
Welcome to the future.
15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee - The Oatmeal →
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– The Man In The Arena (via igrigorik)