Hamlet – The Text Adventure “It’s so unfair! You’re in trouble again, just because you called your uncle – or rather, your new stepfather, Claudius – a usurping git.” (tags: games internet literature silly) YouTube – The Killers – Don’t Shoot Me Santa Silly spoof Christmas song video, featuring Brandon Flowers in a tragic sweater.… Continue reading links for 2007-12-03
Author: Chad Orzel
My New Tablet PC
Important Notice: I am not interested in what Cory Doctorow has termed “helpiness” (in analogy with Stephen Colbert’s “truthiness”) namely comments that have the general syntactical form of useful advice, without the content of useful advice. I don’t want to hear about how I really should’ve bought a Mac, or ought to be running Linux,… Continue reading My New Tablet PC
More Books of the Year
I don’t really want to turn this blog completely over to bitching about the poor representation of science in “Year’s Best” lists of books, but it’s that time of year when every media outlet puts out their lists of favorite books, so it’s hard not to talk about it. Today’s list is from the Washington… Continue reading More Books of the Year
links for 2007-12-02
Amazon.com: Uranium Ore: Electronics “When mixed with Tuscan whole milk I gained the power to control deceased woodland creatures. I am now in the process of raising an army of undead wombats to overthrow the government from deep within my volcanic lair. “ (tags: silly internet) FilmChat: Philip Pullman — the extended e-mail interview Phillip… Continue reading links for 2007-12-02
Neutral Bohmian Mechanics?
Another Jonah Goldberg moment– can anybody recommend a reasonably neutral discussion of Bohm’s non-local hidden variable version of quantum theory? A little Googling turns up this encyclopedia article and a tutorial dialogue on the arxiv, but I’d like to see a fairly complete treatment of it that doesn’t go to great lengths to make proponents… Continue reading Neutral Bohmian Mechanics?
Ninja Squirrel
“Fear! Fire! Foes! Awake! Fear! Fire! Foes! Awake!” “Stop that! What in hell are you barking at?” I look out the window. “It’s a squirrel. Why are you barking like that at a single squirrel on the tree outside?” “It’s an evil squirrel! A threat to the home!” “No, it’s not. It’s little and furry… Continue reading Ninja Squirrel
links for 2007-12-01
The Washington Monthly “It turns out that the only thing these GOP voters hated more than helping the poor was being told that it’s wrong to torture people.” Whee! (tags: politics US) The Wetzel plan – NCAA Football – Yahoo! Sports This is far too sensible to ever happen. (tags: football sports stupid) Off the… Continue reading links for 2007-12-01
Dorky Poll: Cleanliness is Next to…?
Via Kate, a story from a legal blog about a decisions in the case of a messy professor: “Clean your room or get out!” Words from a frustrated parent to a messy teenager? Not quite. The mess-maker in this case was a chemistry professor at the University of Texas, who ignored repeated warnings to clean… Continue reading Dorky Poll: Cleanliness is Next to…?
America’s Best Churches
This could easily be a Links Dump item, but it’s so good that it deserves more prominent placement. Inside Higher Ed has a spoof Editor’s Note from an imaginary US News & World Report ranking of churches: In thanking those who took the time to write, I would remind all in the community of believers… Continue reading America’s Best Churches
Stochastic Global Awareness
One of the strangest things about reading a lot of blogs is the way it’s broadened my view of the world. Which is “more or less at random.” I don’t follow a lot of mainstream news sources any more, because they mostly just piss me off, so I end up getting most of my news… Continue reading Stochastic Global Awareness