July 2008
20 posts
Little Brother →
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Londonist Live: Rogue's Gallery →
L-R: Ed Harcourt, Baby Gramps, Sandy Dillon, Gavin Friday
When Hal Willner takes the stage dressed as a pirate to introduce wily mountain man Baby Gramps, the show ahead is guaranteed to be…
Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts... →
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Clifford Stoll on ... everything | Video on... →
The Quiet War (Gollancz S.F.) →
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Celebration: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of... →
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scans_daily: Eight pages of beauty and heartbreak. →
Sentinel AVE: Fuse live streaming videos to the 3D... →
Back in April 2006, Ogle Earth flagged GeoDec, a research project by grad students at the University of Southern California that allowed you to project live video streams onto a 3D landscape. The…
American Nerd: The Story of My People →
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Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine: 0... →
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ANDI PETERS →
● Lego Stephen Hawking →
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Kai-Fu Lee keynote at SIGIR →
Googler Kai-Fu Lee gave a keynote talk yesterday at SIGIR 2008 on “The Google China Experience”. The Google China experience has been fraught with difficulties. As Kai-Fu said, Google was…
surprise packages, benevolent dictatorships →
I got two surprise packages today. One turned was a pile of Jazz disks and semi-ancient copies of Analog from my past, which my old flatmate Gavin was relaying back through time to me. The other was…
The Funniest Thing You Will Read Today: →
Asimov’s 30 Laws of Robotics For example: 6. A robot may not roll down the window shout out the surprise endings of movies while driving past a theater line. 11. A robot, specifically a big,…
Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping House:... →
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Home Comforts is a comprehensive reference book that should serve homemakers well and induce a greater appreciation for the effort and specialised knowledge that go into keeping…
How long will we be trapped in this mobile hell... →
Now and again I just can’t take it. Now and again I do the mental equivalent of pressing pause and sit and examine myself.
This phrase — or words to the effect — run through my mind at these points…
You've likely seen this by now but I've got to... →
You’ve likely seen this by now but I’ve got to link it up anyway because whenever I think about it, it makes me LOLL (laugh out loud, literally). The American Family Association automatically…