science MIT World ª Distributed Intelligence ª Home http://mitworld.mit.edu/index.php MIT Worldô is a free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT. Cool!
words WBD - Send a postcard - Scare a child http://worldbookday.underwired.com/ maybe I take it back about the quality of the world book day imagery.. I just sent some of their electronic postcards and I wonder if I should have done: abused knowcan't sing 'Happy Birthday'
words World Book Day http://www.worldbookday.com/ Today is World Book Day, whatever one of those is. How will you be marking it? I will probably be reading a few pages of this trashy novel i've got in my pocket and a few more improving sections from Mind Hacks. I might
images vision things http:// another new category.. you work it out. http://www.flickr.com/photos/onemonkey/
quotes Hunter Stockton Thompson http://www.gonzo.org It is time to start a new category for quotations, and where HST is concerned it is only appropriate that it ought to be woefully inappropriate: Thatís why I live out here in the mountains with a flag on my porch and loud Wagner music blaring
bad Letter to the Editor It's not often I write letters to public figures. But I spotted a bit of breath-taking stupidity in today's Times that could not pass without comment. To the Editor, The Times Sir, It is unclear to me if it was Hugo Rifkind or Steve Fuller who
words Eavesdroppings "You're not going into Marks and Spenser if you carry on like that" "He could play the spoons OR the bagpipes!"
bad beekeeper of the heart As any foole knows, Saint Valentine is actually three different semi-legendary people all of who were grusomely martyred. http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintv06.htm You probably knew that they are the patron saints of beekeepers, but far more disturbingly they are also the patron saints of greeting card manufacturers.
psycho Laughing man breaks Necker No, this is not a 'Ha Ha Bonk' joke. Some Australian optometrist has discovered that laughing makes your brain go funny. Prof. Pettigrew is a jovial chap who happens to be director of Queensland Uni's Vision Thing. He noticed that laughter stops binocular rivalry illusions/phenomena.
good Mutual mutilation at IN2U I can't quite believe that there is anyone as idosyncratically enthusiastic nor as enthusiastically reckless as me, but there is and now she is easy to spot in a crowd. That'll be Ade and she'll be the one with the Necker Cube on her
science Time Reversible Cellular Automata http://sjsu.rudyrucker.com/~kwanghyung.paek/paper/ I've just finished reading Greg Egan's Permutation City. As ever, he is way out there, describing (amongst other things) a massive cellular automata universe, the rules of which are such that it can act as interesting 'toy model&
psycho making connections It's a small metropolis! My mate Mike (see this) reviews a new book by my blog-buddy and friend of a friend Tom Stafford. But what is most amazing, is that this is the first I've heard of it. Especially, when it seems to be so completely
dreams paralysed with joy. Recently, in the wee small hours of the morning I've been waking up in a cold sweat, paralysed with fear, literally unable to move. Often, I may even feel that there is some sinister presence nearby, but that a heavy weight ways down on my chest and I
psycho Simple Heuristics that make smart just finished reading Simple Heuristics that make smart - Gigerenzer & Todd (OUP, 2000) - on first appearance a dry academic psychology text on bounded rationality and how we use lots of shortcuts to get close to the right answer to complex practical problems. the slightly artificial but effective example
psycho deadlines, creditlines and trendlines My final year project is finished and handed in. It was inevitably a mad scramble in the last few days before the deadline and an exhausted anti-climax afterward. But now i've caught up on my sleep, i'd do it all over again. Somewhere in those dark
science would you like to play a game of global thermonuclear war? It is not often that the nerds on slashdot.org make me laugh, but I cannot deny my nerdish roots. This had me sniggering like a dweeb: #11484473 and if it isn't the game software it will be the military gunk. my own artifical baby will ever be
words Piety and Wit LI. The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. -Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald The First Edition, 1859
dreams dreaming of you OK. I need your help. Last night my woman and I had very similar dreams. Iím quite happy to accept that this is coincidence, but Miss XX is not. Sheís a Pagany sort, who likes to see meaning in this sort of thing. She knows I donít. But hereís the
words 52,627 and nanomore to come.. http://www.nanowrimo.org/ It has been a fantastic 30 days. I never expected it to turn out the way it has. I started the month with a germ of drug addled inspiration and two paragraphs that i was quite proud of but never thought would lead anywhere. I'
words tick tock time is running out.. trapped at my desk for rest of the weekend, still with four thousand words of notes to type up and then another 8000 of new ones to invent out of nothing.. by not writing sequentially, I have been filling in the easiest bits first and now
words 17,156 and counting.. by and large the book is going very well, pieces of plot keep falling into my lap, have some jokes I rather like and some entertaining set-pieces, i am approximately on target and so far I haven't resorted to the wild desperation of writing any old rubbish, like
words nano onandonandon back from BENIDORM.. and sad to say there wasn't much in the Spanish sun to inspire my writing, had been expecting to bound ahead but actually fell behind the schedule have 32,000 typed up in total with another couple of thousand of notes to include.. it is
bad Low Life had another go at getting into High Society by Ben Elton but after grinding through another 30 pages or so, this time i'm not going to bother going any further.. seems to be a completely pointless book. it was like trying to eat a whole pack of rice
