December 2010
26 posts
The Lifecycle of Software Objects →
I’m reading this Ted Chiang novella and it’s pretty fascinating.
I’ve just spend the last 12 hours eating and drinking too much and watching a bunch of toddlers who couldn’t walk and/or talk the last time I saw them and now they are walking and talking and reaching for wine glasses and learning to give each other turns on the rowing machine while grown ups fear for their little fingers catching in the chain.
Tomorrow I plan on sleeping in and then...
“I think [Jaclyn Friedman and Naomi Wolf] both miss a point. And it’s one a lot...”
– Sarah Wilson writes about the Assange rape allegations.
I wrote the below passage as a comment, but it doesn’t seem to have passed moderation — I’m not really sure why seeing as I was civil and made what I believe were good points. But hey, it’s her blog. (ETA: the comment...
THE PROJECT « BBCX365 →
I will design a poster a day for 365 days in reaction to a headline on the BBC news website and update this website everyday with the poster and the accompanying news story.
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Mysterious Stupid Lying Slut Wife Illusion
o-song:
Do I Love My Wife? An Investigative Report by A.J. Jacobs (Esquire): Intrepid reporter goes and gets an fMRI scan of the parts of his brain that are to do with love in the brain, to see whether he can prove that he loves his wife. Jacobs doesn’t take it too seriously, but overall, this is actually quite a touching look at the nature of the love.
Does The Slut Gene Exist? by Casey...
heatherwis replied to your link: Arsenic bacteria – a post-mortem, a review, and some navel-gazing
Oh is this paper getting ripped apart? I figured it would. I think you probably did too. Gonna read this later!
I remember thinking, while reading Ed Yong’s original piece, “wait, so they didn’t actually find bacteria from the lake with arsenic in their DNA? It was basically...
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Do you ever get sucked in to tumblr after a shower and all of sudden it’s been half an hour and you are still sitting there with a towel draped over your head?
Arsenic bacteria – a post-mortem, a review, and... →
SOUR / MIRROR →
nostrich:
This is amazing.
Via Waxy, who recommends you let it connect to your Twitter and Facebook accounts. I agree.
WatchThe Antikythera mechanism in LEGO.
Via Wired.
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jhn brssndn!: This is what democracy smells like →
Go read this in full.
jhnbrssndn:
A shocking day, alright.
A day on which an unelected government, acting as a proxy for international finance capital, began its dismembering of Higher Education; on which the State set hundreds of riot cops and mounted police on students, trade unionists and schoolchildren; and on which I…
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“[In Sweden], sex with a person who is unconscious, drunk or asleep can be...”
– Um, because it is?
Via Wikileaks’ Assange rape allegations revealed | Stuff.co.nz
“The truth is that exactly two things have made air travel safer since 9/11:...”
– Bruce Schneier in Full Body Scanners: What’s Next? (via packlite)
I read somewhere the other day (probably on tumblr; help?) that they seem to be “randomly” picking on passengers who look like they’ll allow body searches without making a fuss — i.e. the meek and mild. But...
“The long and short of it is that, if verified, this would be quite an exciting...”
– The Daily What
Um. Ok. Call me fucking crazy but I think that any regular watcher of Star Trek TNG remembers the episode where they try and drain a layer of water from between this weird sand and all hell breaks loose because the ‘sand’ is actually a silicon based life form. And even then I was...
“The long and short of it is that, if verified, this would be quite an exciting...”
– The Daily What
Um. Ok. Call me fucking crazy but I think that any regular watcher of Star Trek TNG remembers the episode where they try and drain a layer of water from between this weird sand and all hell breaks loose because the ‘sand’ is actually a silicon based life form. And even then I was...