February 2008
21 posts
Programmers at Work (Tempus) →
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The Alien, The Mutant, The Heretic →
A week or so ago, I read over Stephen Totilo’s off the cuff interview with Cliff Bleszinski, who is also known as CliffyB, and is still sometimes called Clefairy B. In it, Clifford makes a few…
University of Tokyo and JRuby Team to Collaborate... →
Finally the full announcement is available. We’re pretty excited about this one… The University of Tokyo and Sun Microsystems Commence Joint Research Projects on High Performance Computing and…
The Mirrored Heavens →
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Einstein: His Life and Universe →
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Dude totally flips out at E3 →
Hunka Hunka Burning Leia at Wondercon [Wondercon] →
Seen on the mezzanine, without any particular context whatsoever. Someone, somewhere, is having an obscure pop-cultural fetish fulfilled by this image at this very moment.
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I should let it drop... →
…but I totally can’t. Long as I’ve got comment moderation on, I’m going to enjoy this. Ready? *** Integrating women into firefighting doesn’t hurt the quality of service provided. Math ability is a predominantly a function of social constructs. Lawrence Summers was not an innocent victim, railroaded by dogmatic feminists. FUCK! FUCKING MOTHERFUCKER! CRAP! FUCK!...
Oh Fuck, The Internet is Here… →
[funny] Oh Fuck, The Internet is Here… [via More(ish)]
I’m pretty sure “Project: Die Alone” is a Googlebomb.
● Single Serving Sites →
Lately I’ve noticed a pattern of people building Single Serving Sites, web sites comprised of a single page with a dedicated domain name and do only one thing. Here are a few examples: Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle showcases all the lovely things that the presidential candidate has done for you. Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue. Sometimes the page is read, sometimes it is blue. Check out Is...
Do We Really Want Another Black President After... →
Do We Really Want Another Black President After The Events Of Deep Impact? Related: the latest episode of This American Life leads with a fascinating piece about how the funny happens at The Onion. In a lovely paradox, it turns out that the process of making funny things isn’t all that amusing…the sound of silence following the recitation of a funny possible headline in the...
Anathem →
AKA another reason to get around to reading The Baroque Cycle (reading group still scheduled to start here in March!), AKA Neal Stephenson’s next novel, due August. No details on the Amazon page, but a reliable source informs me that this one is actual science fiction, set in the future and everything. Whee!
02.06.08: can you make something about giving a... →
A recent study shows that the human brain reacts... →
A recent study shows that the human brain reacts differently to people that seem like us than to those who don’t. The experimenters used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the brains of Harvard and other Boston-area students while showing them pictures of other college-age people whom the researchers randomly described as either liberal northeastern students or...
“I am hoping that if I show her lovely things like ducks and clouds and sky ect...”
– JonnyB’s Private Secret Diary
Sarah Silverman wrote something funny. →
I wouldn’t call myself a Sarah Silverman fan. And I’m certainly not wild about her boyfriend, Jimmy Kimmel. But Thursday night I stumbled on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” and Silverman was there with a special video in honor of that show’s 5th anniversary. It was a song called “I’m F*cking Matt Damon.” It is hilarious. Matt Damon’s in it. That’s what makes it hilarious. Now the video has gone viral…...
Eddie Adams, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his... →
Eddie Adams, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his famous photo of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan shooting a Viet Cong prisoner, wishes he had never taken the photo. The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. What the...
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