- 10 war recent photos
- Vortex collisions
- How contacting aliens might happen
- A definable number which cannot be approximated algorithmically – from arxiv
- Edward Tufte: information man
- Information architects – leet design group
- Burger joints heat map very pretty
- A good question to ask your self
- The teen brain
- How language “looks” like to blind people or The Death of Braille
- Juggalo News – best thing in while ive watched
- How to make a Didgeridoo – from Andrew B
- Psychiatric hospitals of other countries
- Google public data explorer – Opensource knowledge is good, like gapminder
- Sounds from space – these would make good ambient music samples
- 97 things a programmer (and more) / software architect / project manager needs to know
- We need new kinds of statistical methods for huge datasets
- Liberals and sexual exclusiveness linked to
- Stoicism – sum philosophy 4 u
Do you feel like we do?
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Portal 2!
- NASA’s opensourced software, most of these is something I have wanted to code up.
- Mars rover accelerometer data converted to sound makes nice ambient music
- Lego speed cuber video, and thats cool but now i’m interested in the math/programing of solving the cube
- There using our satellites against us! I wish I was an engineer.
- Escape from Siberia
- Machine learning – academic earth – skip the first one
- EMDR – curing trauma by simulating dreaming
- Hylozoism is what they call it
- Aminals
- Happy people talk more and not about stupid stuff
- The biology of xenomorph inner mouths
- “Hard times” of the US is good or something
- Free audiobooks also don’t forget librivox
- Our planet – color photos!
- Cooking another great technology
- Statistical time travel
- Data Data data data data sparsity the matrix – this article by Wired was rly kool
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Do you only see bad design?
- Bell inequalities – something about quantum unpredictability. Might be useful AI
- Project MKULTRA – this is just a reminder
- The Monomyth:
“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.”
- Every man made landing on other worlds
- The Viking program was awesome
- I’d make a video like this
- More Jim Woodring
- How Britain is using classical music as a form of social control
- Animatronics Awesome robots
- Power lines vrs tree limb video
- Ingredients for conformity
- How to judge books by cover
- The art of Mark Ryden
- Plot weaving data visualization!
- Austin Plane crasher’s suicide note
- MGMT cover art
- The man who courted nature – good story telling of a guy who made it rain
- A cloud chamber; video
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Octember
Son of a bitch.
- Dating age patterns. I like older women.
- Photo credit:
- The reasons why girls cry
- A Twitter search. Click the twitpic links
- We stand on the cusp of one of humanity’s most dangerous moments.
- Old time madness
- Ariel photography of David Maisiel
- The Pocket Full of Boners illustrated by Dr. Seuss. I loved his books, like One Fish Two Fish, Oh The Thinks you can Thinks, The Lorax, The Butter Bat… They really influenced me. They were so interesting.
- Top 25 worst programming errors
- Cheesy and great biological animations
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Spider Piñata
- What if the whole universe is, like, one huge atom? duuude
- “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
- Unicode string
- How to get our democracy back – Lessig
- Fundamental examples in math and science
- Great simple math puzzle. Simple to explain
- Video of largest Dodge ball game
- Werewolf the fun new game (for your parlour)
- And thats how it happened
- Awesome spy story
- Daily Dozen from National Geographic
- A to Z of UFO theories.
- I want an “upside down” map of the world
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Hand Banana
Comments are welcomed and desired.
Theres a mathematician, a physicist and an engineer on a train going through Scotland. The engineer looks out the window and says "Oh! Look! A brown cow. All cows in Scotland must be brown.". The physicist says "No, no. All we can say is that some of the cows in Scotland are brown.". The mathematician then says "NO, NO! All we can say is that there is at least one cow in Scotland, at least one side of which must be brown.
- Using bittorrent to transfer files across many servers
- Pentagon is going to kill us all with artificial life (the kill switch will fail, ya bimbo)
- Glitch looks new/fun/creative
- Why does time fly? NPR article
- If I make anything physical it would be this Harmonograph
- Some art by Mark Bodnar
- Photos of crack addicts
- Bill Hicks on drugs and life. We share a point of view.
- Universe is a hologram? It’s understandable – Reddit
- Google and NSA want to join Bad idea I think but maybe inevitable
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Old style
Mandelbrot Fractal Set Trip To e214 HD from teamfresh on Vimeo.
- What you see when you fall into a blackhole.
- Foodscapes
- Do we have a moral obligation to seed the universe with life? I really think we should but after we master taking care of our selves.
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links for 2010-02-07
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funny
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It the future mos def
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links for 2010-01-27
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My favorite type of game
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Data visualization
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AI, graphics, game design
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Anthropology=English class -> annoying
Below is my submission for Anthopology 45. My school work doesn’t always reflect my real,exact views since my goal is to get a fine grade.
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My ethnocentrism involves languages. My father is from the United States of America and my mother is from Brazil. I was born there in Recife and I grew up on the path for normal Brazilian Portuguese for my younger more vulnerable years. After some time we moved into the US and have had permanent residence here ever since. Getting a North American enculturation has made me lose my fluent Portuguese. My family gets Brazilian TV channels which I can follow well enough and my mom still speaks it around but otherwise I am immersed in English. My vocabulary is very poor and you need to speak slow and clear but I can survive and relearn it all back if needed.
I’m really not qualified to talk about why MY languages are enlightened but I’ll act like I am because of my ethnocentrism. I’m proud of my first language but I know I have detached from it. I look at it and hear it and wish I had it back. It sounds very fluid and structured logically. It seems to convey more information through an emotional channel that “should” be universal to understand. Maybe what I really like is not the language but the relation to a Brazilian attitude which was what I first connected with. Plus I think English-Brazilian accents are hot on women except on my mom.
I like English in a complimentary way. It seems expressive and very good at transferring information. It isn’t uniform in the syntax but it can be extended and bent many interesting ways making it very malleable. I appreciate this a lot in music even though I seem to only listen to the phonetics. The language is dense with history, jargon, and remixes of many parts of other languages.
Portuguese is a Romance language whereas English is Germanic. When I hear German I ask my self if that is what English sounds like to nonspeakers and I feel grossed out and put back in my place. English and Portuguese are both indo-European languages but, most importantly (to me), both have been in my head and thats where my bias comes from. I would have to appreciate every language on Earth to maybe give an objective comparison of all these properties I have listed. Most likely is that every feature I’ve doted on is found in all languages and Portuguese and English are actually boring and inefficient. I think it would be cool to have clicks as a phoneme here so we English is, for sure, not completely awesome yet.
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