February 2010
27 posts
More ev on the "talk to me about the iPad being... →
“The term “spasm war” is now almost standard jargon in military and government...”
– On Escalation - Herman Kahn (via unpublishedrhyme) (via absalomabsalom)
married life
keyholez:
We chased keema, brussels sprouts, and mushrooms with champagne with vitamin D and flaxseed oil with champagne.
So, hipster vitamin party, no?
#scienceconfessions →
Watchkeyholez:
Well, jeepers. My initial judgment, based on Lux’s summary alone, was that the project seemed dangerous and maybe a little evil; on closer inspection, the project seems dangerous and maybe a little evil!
[…]After all, what’s the worst that could happen if you create an arbitrary human mind without having any clue what you’re actually doing?”
It’s really not cool to fabricate a...
Well, I think it is interesting
In general I thought that religiously restrictive dietary practices tended to largely overlap or be nested inside on another. More specifically, without getting into drawing pictures, Jewish and Muslim dietary restrictions are similar-ish in a lot of ways and so overlap a bunch. It’s possible to follow both, although you’d get some weirdness in doubling-up on incantations during...
almostepistles:
so the pilot wrote a manifesto, but it has been taken down at the request of the FBI.
Looks like the FBI can’t stop Wonkette!
It’s sort of worth a look!
"The next best thing to pet salvation in a Post...
They are charging money for this…
You’ve committed your life to Jesus. You know you’re saved. But when the Rapture comes what’s to become of your loving pets who are left behind? Eternal Earth-Bound Pets takes that burden off your mind.
We are a group of dedicated animal lovers, and atheists. Each Eternal Earth-Bound Pet representative is a confirmed atheist, and as such will still be here on...
Tumblr Staff: Dashboard API: Part 1 →
I asked Leoncrawl to ask Tumblr about this and then it happened?
If when a lot of snow was predicted it turned out to be not that bad does that mean when only a little snow is predicted that it will be terrible?
Buzz by Daniel Luxemburg from fiat luxemburg →
Tumblr -> Buzz
Tumblr -> Buzz
So, because of Google is into the whole social graph techno-hippie stuff Buzz works with open standards for moving information around. That means you can send your Tumblr into your Buzz feed as long as you make sure your public Tumblr page announces itself as belonging to the same person as your Google profile does. It’s actually not that hard, just add this line into the custom HTML for...
On Google Buzz, Part I →
My somewhat meandering take on Google’s latest…thing.
NOTE: Totally outdated as it was written before I has access to it. Also, I figured how to pipe in Tumblr!
Peer review: What is it good for? →
It’s not against the concept of peer review, so much as the implementation. Implies some interesting roles for distributed technology to help make knowledge happen more transparently (and thus, hopefully, more efficiently).
Is stress-induced sweat actually colder than...
(via leoncrawl)
A: Sort of. One of the things that sweat is for is to cool your body off (as it evaporates). So, when you sweat as a result of physical exertion a) your body heat causes the sweat to be warmer, but more importantly, b) you experience the cooling effect as a component of returning to your typical resting body temperature. That same cooling effect is experienced as...
“You gotta get those mofo’s socially networking with the blogs for profit$$$”
– Keyholez does not respect my work.
Trace of Thought Is Found in ‘Vegetative’ Patient →
I’ve told people about this trick before (a lot, I feel), but this is about a new paper just published that found at least one (out of 54) vegetative patients able to respond to yes or no questions through willful modulation of brain activity:
In the current experiment, the researchers found that three other patients identified as vegetative showed similar responses. To open a channel of...
WatchA pretty good 17-minute documentary about the Blue Brain Project, “an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level” (not synthetic as in an artificial physical object, but as in comprehensively simulated).
They’re only on rodents now, but hope to move on to cats in a few years and progress quickly from there through...
Yahoo FTW →
“Um, yes, we’d like a patent on all the most trendy Internet words, strung together.”
(Sorry, some habits are hard to break. I’m not even sure if it is well known that I have strong feelings about this company. Seriously though. This time it’s going to happen.)
“Let’s start calling developments in the Senate “anti-news,” right?”
– Jim N. Not sure what it means, but probably accurate.