October 2008
37 posts
Tom Waits + Kronos Quartet →
“HOW OLD CARY GRANT?” a reporter once cabled to the actor. The reply came back:...”
– Last word - Times Online
Apostrophe Which Will Confuse Children - Viewing a... →
Stevey's Blog Rants: A programmer's view of the... →
I work with complex software projects all day long! Luckily I still believe I’m smart enough to understand it all. Stupid fish.
Starfish (Rifters Trilogy) by Peter Watts →
Tor Books (2008), Paperback, 320 pages
Maelstrom (Rifters Trilogy) by Peter Watts →
Tor Books (2001), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 384 pages
"Management’s job is not to prevent risk but... →
“Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the capability to recover when failures occur.”
— Pixar (via Timo)
Where is the crunch crunching? →
LAST week, I disagreed with Alex Tabarrok’s assessment that conditions in credit markets were not dire. Others did as well, and for a couple of days now Mr Tabarrok and his blogmate Tyler Cowen…
Volkswagen = world's largest company →
Volkswagen was briefly the world’s largest company in terms of market cap today. Volkswagen briefly became the world’s largest company by market capitalisation on Tuesday as panic-buying by…
The tragedy of Iceland →
WHATEVER Iceland’s failings, the country doesn’t seem to deserve what is certainly going to be a very painful recession coupled with serious inflation, or the naked aggression of Gordon Brown, who…
[Backstage Blog] Spilling the beans of BBC Redux →
Brandon Butterworth is Principal Technologist and one of those famous names you hear in the air of corridors all over the BBC. In his post for the BBC Internet Blog he spills the full beans on…
Putting Privacy Settings in the Context of Use (in... →
A few days ago, Gilad’s eyes opened wide and he called me over to look at his computer. He was on Facebook and he had just discovered a privacy loophole. He had maximized his newsfeed to get as many…
Welcome to Mars: Science and the American Century,... →
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Infinite Jest →
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Zip Line Tours Through City Space →
[Image: Photo by Ryan Collerd for The New York Times]. Riding zip lines through the autumn tree canopies of rural Pennsylvania is something of a growth industry, it seems, exploring ski…
Jeremy Freese's Violet, entry for the IF Comp... →
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Play this! It’s really great.
best entry I’ve tried so far from the competition; hit enter a couple times to start playing
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century -... →
Understanding the human animal →
SUPPOSEDLY, people are rational creatures, capable of using reason to assess available information and act in the market accordingly. The alternative hypothesis might be that we’re primarily…
Dr Doom kicks up his heels →
WE LIKE to have a bit of fun with everyone’s favourite chicken little, Nouriel Roubini. Apparently, we’re not the only ones. Gawker reports:
The image of Dr. Doom may satisfy the needs of the…
Point Break Live! →
This sounds amazing; a stage version of Point Break in which Keanu Reeves’ unique acting style is replicated by picking someone out of the audience and getting them to take his role, reading the…
Watchvia The Nude Journal - serafinowicz - 50 impressions in 2 minutes
FOUR LIONS: A New Chris Morris Project →
I just received this in email, emanating from the office of Chris Morris. The bottom of the email asks for it to be sent on to ten more people. I thought I’d do this instead:
Many people…
The Financial Crisis, as Explained to My... →
Tilt-shift video →
Tilt-shift camera lenses have been around for awhile and have been typically used in architectural photography to straighten perspective lines. A few photographers have recently begun to make what…
Literal music videos →
The literal video version of A Ha’s Take On Me…that is, the words of the song are changed to reflect what actually happens in the video. Band montage! Pipe wrench fight! This. Is….
Personal Days →
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AMC Brings Armageddon To Red Mars [Red Mars] →
While real scientists prepare to listen to the sounds of Mars, AMC is getting ready to let us watch the Red Planet as well… or at least, a fictionalized future version of it, courtesy of…
The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to... →
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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of... →
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First Rain. →
Alright so the deal with first rain is that I like to bundle all up in this preposterous old North Face “ski rescue”-type thigh-length jacket that I lifted outta Ray’s car one time (it has like…
Head Cheese Gone Wild →
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I need to learn how to debug brain meat.
I was plenty pleased when little porridges of cultured neurons took their first baby steps towards running flight simulators or …