April 2009
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WatchBathtub IV, a tilt-shift video (via kottke)
March 2009
61 posts
Kile Wygle Gets DUI On Motorized Bar Stool →
Prada Transformer →
WatchSenators Get Nasty: “You’re Good” … “Your Wife Said The Same Thing” (VIDEO)
Conscious Control
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The researchers could predict how around 70% of the students would rate an instructor just by analysing the instructor’s body language in 30 seconds of soundless video.
Can You Win at Tetris? →
A MSc. Thesis by John Brzustowski
Why do people cook? The evolutionary role of... →
via Lone Gunman
Achron - Time Travel is Coming →
NEW MATH by Craig Damrauer →
The SSD Project | EFF Surveillance Self-Defense... →
America's Most Walkable Neighborhoods -... →
Op-Ed Contributor - Dear A.I.G., I Quit! -... →
Name of the Year →
via Freakonomics
The Geithner Plan FAQ →
By Brad Delong
“It’s so easy…to mistake a person’s material resources for his...”
– Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Hand Signals at The Stork Club « A Continuous... →
MISTER NICE HANDS . COM →
Sigh.
Social Collider →
Revealing Connections between Twitter Conversations (via Info Aesthetics)
Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending... →
Flip Video: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong And Then So, So... →
Stephen Wolfram and the techno-dianetics of... →
I will say of the announcement [of Wolfram Alpha] that I haven’t read anything that thoroughly immodest and improbable since suffering through the opening pages of Dianetics. And no, the comparison with L. Ron Hubbard’s crackpot chef d’oeuvre is not an exaggeration; Wolfram really does make a set of claims for his work that are up there with those of Hubbard on the “this...
Willis Moving Into Chicago's Sears Tower, Renaming... →
oving Into Chicago’s Sears Tower, Renaming It Willis Tower
Op-Ed Contributor - The Bigger Apple - NYTimes.com →
5. Fill in the Harlem River, which separates Manhattan and the Bronx. The Harlem River did not become a navigable waterway until 1895, when the Army Corps of Engineers dredged a shipping canal that provided direct passage for vessels from the East River to the Hudson. Nineteen years later, the creek that had served as the northern boundary of Manhattan was filled in, leaving the neighborhood of...
Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace →
Grown-Up Calvin and Hobbes →
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay... →
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Cramer v. Stewart - Megan McArdle →
Gizmine : Gadget and Lifestyle Design Superstore →
Marco.org - What's Apple's problem with buttons? →
“[L]ike 10.5.0’s translucent menu bar and slanty Dock, and Safari 4 Beta’s tab bar, and heavy shiny glass screens on lightweight laptops, and the Mighty Mouse, that this new Shuffle was a victim of the Apple style police defeating any semblance of common-sense usability.” QFT. I especially agree that the Mighty Mouse is hard to use. I replaced my Mighty Mice with Logitech or Microsoft...
Tetris HD →