September 2009
65 posts
“You knew it would taste bad. The regulars all order from the hot case; the lotus...”
– MAGIC MOLLY - Lotus bun
WatchStar Wars: Uncut Trailer on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
WatchKuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world - (song is Please don’t go by Barcelona) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Gruen Transfer →
bestofwikipedia:
In shopping mall design, the Gruen transfer refers to the moment when a consumer enters a shopping mall, and, surrounded by an intentionally confusing layout, loses track their original intentions. Spatial awareness of their surroundings play a key role, as does the surrounding sound and music. The effect of the transfer is marked by a slower walking pace and glazed eyes. (via...
“If I could change one thing — this is going to sound stupid — but if...”
– Guy Steele, in Coders At Work
“To run this, type the following from a linux terminal:
$ java -cp clojure.jar...”
– Chaos Theory vs Clojure « Best In Class – The Blog
“1. The Rogue Film School will be in the form of weekend seminars held by Werner...”
– Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School
“After the noises and the Plan we sit silently for a moment. Dad examines his...”
– In Which Molly Young’s Journey To Israel Makes A Platonic Crunch « This Recording
“Over the next few years, Christakis and Fowler managed a team that painstakingly...”
– Are Your Friends Making You Fat? - NYTimes.com
WatchKeynote: Real world Haskell. on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Colonization of Mars →
bestofwikipedia:
The colonization of Mars by humans is the focus of speculation and serious study, as the surface conditions and availability of water on Mars make it arguably the most hospitable planet in the solar system other than Earth. While the Moon has been proposed as the first location for human colonization, unlike Earth’s moon, Mars has an atmosphere, giving it the potential capacity to...
“If I believe everything I said in the second version, why didn’t I write...”
– Persuade xor Discover
“Which is why, centuries later, Karl Pearson, the founder of mathematical...”
– The New Science of Causation (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
WatchNeurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
“In the 1960’s, Borlaug introduced new strains that absorbed more nitrogen and...”
– The greatest human is dead - The Globe and Mail
“The anthropologist also looked at peer pressure among black students to...”
– East Bay Express : Print This Story
Cal Professor John Ogbu thinks he knows why rich black kids are failing in school. Nobody wants to hear it.
“Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that...”
– Clive Thompson on the New Literacy (via Jeff Atwood) (via marco) (via jayparkinsonmd)
WatchMA Men from Joey McIntyre, Drew, and JChaff - Video
Via Robin, of course.
PaxosLease: Diskless Paxos for Leases | High... →
PaxosLease is a distributed algorithm for lease negotiation. It is based on Paxos, but does not require disk writes or clock synchrony. PaxosLease is used for master lease negotation in the open-source Keyspace replicated key-value store.
L'esprit De L'escalier →
bestofwikipedia:
L’esprit de l’escalier or esprit d’escalier (stairway wit) is thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late. The phrase can be used to describe a riposte to an insult or any witty remark that comes to mind too late to be useful—when one is on the “staircase” leaving the scene of the encounter. The phenomenon is usually accompanied by a feeling of regret at not having thought...
North Paw →
The Canon of Medicine →
Remarkable 1025 text by Ibn Sina, apparently describing randomized controlled trials, risk factor analysis, and an awe-inspiring range of treatments, diseases, symptoms, methods of surgery and so on. (via Michael Nielson)
“A Life Well Wasted has been described as “the This American Life of video...”
– Podthoughts by Colin Marshall: “A Life Well Wasted” | Maximum Fun
Passage, a tiny game that takes 5 minutes →
This game kills me.
Post Position » Interactive Fiction Suggestions,... →
Getting Started - cloud-crowd - GitHub →