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If you can, consider throwing it to help with the maintenance of Mixed States and the other science-themed feed aggregators at Something Similar. Mixed States is back after a long absence (long enough that I had stopped checking), and it’s reminded me what an excellent resource this is. The proprietor is looking for $135 to… Continue reading Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Seen here and there around the Interwebs, the Brutally Honest Personality Test. It’s pretty much a standard Meyers-Briggs four-component personality test, except without all the happy touchy-feely crap talking up your positive qualities: Commander – ESTP 73% Extraversion, 46% Intuition, 66% Thinking, 33% Judging It’s all about action with you, isn’t it? You’re outgoing and… Continue reading A Personality Test I Can Endorse

I’ve solicited nominations for a bunch of “Year’s Best” categories, with varying degrees of success. Best Pop Song was great (and has added a few songs to the list of things to check out the next time I hit iTunes), but I was hoping for more from the best physics results. Was it really that… Continue reading Call for Nominations: Non-Specific Item of the Year

I have a tablet PC that I am borrowing from work to see if I like the way it works. As a test of it’s usefulness, I’m going to attempt to live-blog at least part of the Giants same. So, let’s see how this works… The Giants score on their first posses, on, after Dallas… Continue reading Experiment in Live-bogging

Professor Office Sex is trying to study the real-time dynamcis of the blogosphere, by manufacturing a “meme” that he’ll then track: While you do that, a script I’ve written will track this meme (via Technorati) across the internet in 10 minute intervals. It will record the number of links to this post, register their authority… Continue reading “Meme” Dynamics

Yesterday’s quickie photo-blog post came during the short break between running around preparing for house guests, and the arrival of said house guests (about fifteen minutes after I posted, while I was in the shower). Other than that, I was way too busy to even read blogs, let alone post. So, crawling out from under… Continue reading Wake Me When September Ends

Sean Carroll of Cosmic Variance and Jennifer Ouellette of Cocktail Party Physics have gotten engaged. All together now: Awwwwww….You crazy kids with your falling in love over the Internet and all. Actually, we here at Chateaue Steelypips heartily approve of both the institution of marriage and the idea of meeting spouses through the Internet. Sincere… Continue reading True Love Travels on the Information Superhighway

The Female Science Professor (whose pseudonym I find unwieldy, but I’m not going to make a TLA out of it…) raises an interesting question in describing a language class experience: By far the strangest experience was when we had to show and talk about photographs of our family and friends. Many of the other students… Continue reading Has Stephen Hawking Friended You?