tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31066512024-02-08T10:55:03.239-08:00Boundary LayerThe best way to find a line is to cross itUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger717125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-41245797213740487062008-06-26T11:59:00.000-07:002008-06-26T12:09:59.087-07:00<h2>Says it all</h2><br />"The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of 'Weekend With Bernie,' handcuffed to a corpse." <br />(from <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062501942.html">here</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-38947106969929948502008-04-30T19:16:00.000-07:002008-04-30T19:19:04.790-07:00<h2>Can't Stop</h2><br /><a href="http://magic.pen.fizzlebot.com/">Magic Pen Physics</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-59878991584517159592008-02-25T13:53:00.000-08:002008-02-25T13:58:35.280-08:00<h2>Beat It</h2><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vfdl7-E80Q">This</a> is a trainwreck.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-81445919757977549602008-02-18T10:18:00.000-08:002008-02-18T10:20:26.347-08:00<h2>The Bush Legacy</h2><br />Two recessions.<br />One terrorist attack, 3000 people dead.<br />Two wars, lost.<br />One city, destroyed.<br /><br />Heckuva job.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-91355014846306079372008-02-15T21:20:00.000-08:002008-02-15T21:23:06.335-08:00<h2>The Edge of Life</h2><br /><a href="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/subcellular.html">This site</a> explores just how small life can get and what happens in that fuzzy area between life and pseudolife.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-54371575002873755502008-01-24T09:44:00.000-08:002008-01-24T09:47:46.465-08:00<h2>Rate of Change</h2><br />In just a few years the consensus on two big issues, universal health care, and climate change has completely shifted. It's remarkable how five years ago these two issues were ignored and people raising them ridiculed. Now it's considered a given that both need to be taken on and addressed in a big way. They are also two issues in which the United States is lagging behind the rest of the world and needs to play catch up to compete.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-43213752869106503722008-01-03T15:55:00.000-08:002008-01-03T15:56:32.676-08:00<h2>Fun</h2><br /><a href="http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.html">Cursor*10</a>. (via <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/67889/FLASH-THURSDAY">Metafilter</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-29222452352283334422007-11-07T23:17:00.000-08:002007-11-07T23:19:49.781-08:00<h2>No warning</h2><br />The <a href="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/the-strangest-disaster-of-the-20th-century/?">mysterious deaths </a>of 1,700 people in Cameroon.<br />(via <a href="http://del.icio.us/popular">delicious popular</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-48997730554811258622007-10-26T14:59:00.000-07:002007-10-26T15:00:40.027-07:00<h2>Space legos</h2><br />An <a href="http://www.sortingoutscience.net/2007/10/26/casual_friday_--_iss_assembly_sequence/">animation</a> showing the assembly of the ISS. (via <a href="http://robotwisdom2.blogspot.com/">Robotwisdom</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-65667641943088828662007-09-21T16:57:00.000-07:002008-01-25T11:11:50.219-08:00<h2>Brick walls</h2><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch">Randy Pausch</a> gives a <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184&q=randy+pausch&total=19&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=6">talk</a> about life and following your dreams.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-9616079598827994922007-09-18T21:26:00.000-07:002007-10-15T19:33:20.895-07:00<h2>The story of Oedipus</h2><br /><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/91/It-seems-this-essay-was-written-while-the-guy-was-high-hilarious-#">Homework</a> gone terribly wrong. NSFW (via <a href="http://del.icio.us/popular">delicious popular</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-10169106253077566272007-09-13T22:50:00.000-07:002007-10-15T19:33:37.548-07:00<h2>Space</h2><br /><a href="http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm">Pictures</a> from orbit. (via <a href="http://del.icio.us/popular">delicious Popular</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-4923485942555427362007-09-13T16:19:00.000-07:002007-09-13T16:21:18.082-07:00<h2>Oil</h2><br /><a href="http://www.blog.thesietch.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/map01_1024.jpg">Who has it and who uses it.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-83115061644372710942007-08-04T12:39:00.000-07:002007-08-04T12:41:04.470-07:00<h2>Wisdom</h2><br />Keep your desire turning back within and be patient. Allow the fulfillment to come to you. Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world. Pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.<br /><br />It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner health and happiness.<br /><br />Happiness radiates like a fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after your needs of life - It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them.<br /><br />In this way life proceeds more naturally, effortlessly.<br />Life is here to enjoy.<br /><br />-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi">Maharishi Mahesh Yogi</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-84242807783060952542007-07-03T22:37:00.000-07:002007-07-04T02:40:42.739-07:00<h2>iPhone: The Morning After</h2><br />Engadget has a <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/iphone-review/comments/5768061/">thorough review</a> of that new phone that came out recently.<br /><br />On the downside, it's inexplicably missing some basic utilities and features that are standard on current phones (IM, MMS, voice dialing, voice memo, cut and paste, mp3 ringtones etc.). The camera is also several generations behind with no video capabilities, no flash, no digital zoom, or alternate modes. And working with email is cumbersome by all accounts. <br /><br />On the plus side, the battery life is great. <br /><br />But seriously, no one is buying this thing for the features, they are buying it for the interface, which definitely lives up to the hype. And most of the flaws will be fixed with the inevitable firmware upgrades, even the <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+crashes&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a">frequent </a><a href="http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/troubleshooting/phone/">crashes</a>.<br /><br /><br />The <strong>never buy a 1st generation product</strong> rule seems to be true in this case. This is an ambitious product that will hopefully move the whole industry forward, but at the moment, it's more of a work in progress.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-34312855840999128072007-07-01T10:13:00.000-07:002007-07-02T22:03:56.801-07:00<h2>It rocks</h2><br /><a href="http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/">Wolfgang's Concert Vault</a> is a set of concerts made available by mondo promotor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Graham_(promoter)">Bill Graham</a> aka Wolfgang Grajonca that are free to stream. They've got tons of material from Pink Floyd, and Devo to Motley Crue and U2.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-88630055566130059872007-05-09T21:29:00.000-07:002007-05-09T21:33:15.697-07:00<h2>Edible structures</h2><br /><a href="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/candyfab">3d printing</a> with sugar. (via <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/61025/CandyFab">Metafilter</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-51388058846861582842007-05-05T13:18:00.000-07:002007-05-05T13:20:54.183-07:00<h2>Surprising a Grizzly and her cubs</h2><br /><blockquote>Johan looked up. Jenna was running toward him. She had yelled something, he wasn't sure what. Then he saw it. The open mouth, the tongue, the teeth, the flattened ears. Jenna ran right past him, and it struck him — a flash of fur, two jumps, 400 pounds of lightning.<br /><br />It was a grizzly, and it had him by his left thigh. His mind started racing — to Jenna, to the trip, to fighting, to escaping. The bear jerked him back and forth like a rag doll, but he remembered no pain, just disbelief. It bit into him again and again, its jaw like a sharp vise stopping at nothing until teeth hit bone. Then came the claws, rising like shiny knife blades, long and stark.</blockquote><br />A harrowing <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-grizzly29apr29,0,751987.story?coll=la-home-headlines">story</a> of a bear attack in Montana.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-22540693153048316132007-04-07T16:29:00.000-07:002007-05-12T09:57:38.131-07:00<h2>Live from New York</h2><br />If you were in New York and you wanted to see an episode of Saturday Night Live you could go to the studios and wait in the standby line. But to be one of the first 100 or so who get a ticket you would have to get there on Friday afternoon and spend the night. <a href="http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/programs/2007/03/31/in_line_with_saturda.html">This</a> is the story of a guy that has done that 539 times.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-80885649050410769972007-03-24T11:10:00.000-07:002007-05-12T09:56:55.622-07:00<h2>Future <-> Present</h2><br /><a href="http://www.janchipchase.com/about">Jan Chipchase</a>'s job is even more interesting than his name. One of the hats he wears is as a human behavioral field researcher for Nokia. <a href="http://www.janchipchase.com/">He spends much of his time traveling</a> around learning about how people use their phones and applying that information to the phones he helps to design. (via <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/">Nussbaum on Design</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-54056360591157822412007-03-16T20:29:00.000-07:002007-03-16T20:35:48.810-07:00<h2>It keeps going and going...</h2><br />Can you believe <a href="http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/home/">these things</a> are still going after three years? What are the odds that one of them will still be exploring by the time <a href="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/future/msl.html">the next rover</a> lands in 2009?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-1171706286331733192007-02-17T01:56:00.000-08:002007-02-17T01:58:06.586-08:00<h2>Unsustainable</h2><br />U.S. <a href="http://eed.llnl.gov/flow/02flow.php">Energy Flows</a> (2002). (via <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/58698/US-Energy-Flows#1592919">Metafilter</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-1170014578632296672007-01-28T12:00:00.000-08:002007-01-28T12:03:21.616-08:00<h2>Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.</h2><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pollan">Michael Pollan</a> on what to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?ei=5090&en=a18a7f35515014c7&ex=1327640400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all">eat</a>. (via <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/58127">Metafilter</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-1167850001102519642007-01-03T10:45:00.000-08:002007-01-03T10:46:41.126-08:00<h2>Any questions?</h2><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc">This</a> is your spider on drugs. (via <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/57446">Metafilter</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106651.post-1167178896833353212006-12-26T16:19:00.000-08:002006-12-26T16:21:36.850-08:00<h2>Superbad</h2><br /><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6676984">James Brown remembered on Fresh Air</a> with interviews with Bootsy and Maceo.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com