This has to be seen to be believed: (Via the Times Union‘s high school sports blog, who says it’s from a high school game in Oregon.)
links for 2008-03-03
Please Call Earth. We Still Haven’t Found You. – New York Times SETI: still searching after all these years. (tags: science space astronomy) YouTube – Life at the Olin Outpost Clearly, they don’t assign enough homework at Carleton… (tags: academia youtube video silly physics music) Crooked Timber » » A lot or a little, part… Continue reading links for 2008-03-03
True Science Blogging, or “Hey, Check Out This Navel!”
The kerfuffle over the Bayblab incident has produced no end of discussion here and elsewhere. Hilariously, this included a lengthy discussion of why they see ScienceBlogs as cliquish, conducted entirely in the private back-channel forum that nobody else can read. Irony: it’s like gold-y and bronze-y, but made of iron. I realize that there’s nothing… Continue reading True Science Blogging, or “Hey, Check Out This Navel!”
Hyper Games, Small World
Technorati is working less and less well these days– it doesn’t update as often as it should, and misses links that I know are there– but it’s still good for the occasional new find. Such as Susan Beckhardt’s Intrinsically Knotted, which features among other things a really nice post about mathematical games: We’re going to… Continue reading Hyper Games, Small World
Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
Little Brother is Cory Doctorow’s bid for a place on this year’s list of banned books. It’s a book that not only encourages kids to hack computers, commit vandalism, and thwart law enforcement, it gives them detailed instructions on the best ways to do those things. It even comes with two afterwords and a bibliography… Continue reading Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
links for 2008-03-02
Stephen Huneck Gallery at Dog Mountain Vermont ” I wanted to build a chapel, one that celebrated the spiritual bond we have with our dogs, and that would be open to dogs and people. People of any faith or belief system.” (tags: dog religion art animals) Such Madness – New York Times Let the hype… Continue reading links for 2008-03-02
Ybor City is Tres Speedy, But They Throw Such Killer Parties
Via Orac, a religious movement I think we can all get behind: Pastor Wants 30 Days of Sex for Couples The pastor for Relevant Church in Ybor City is challenging the couples in his congregation to get busy in bed every night for a month. Wirth said the supposed 50 percent divorce rate is the… Continue reading Ybor City is Tres Speedy, But They Throw Such Killer Parties
“Story of Your Life” Guest Lecture
The Science Fiction class for which I agreed to guest lecture is an 8am class, which is earlier than I like to be up and about. Knowing this, I went to bed early on Thursday night. Of course, being a bookaholic of long standing, I needed something to read to put me to sleep. Genius… Continue reading “Story of Your Life” Guest Lecture
Dinner With ΔKE
As mentioned previously, I was invited to discuss physics and politics at one of the local fraternities earlier this week. Oddly, given the primacy of Greek organizations on campus, this is only the fourth time I’ve set foot inside a fraternity or sorority house in seven years. The previous occasions were times when I was… Continue reading Dinner With ΔKE
links for 2008-03-01
slacktivist: More on subsidiarity “[W]here it exists here in America, inefficient Big Government tends to be the direct and predictable result of anti-regulation, anti-government laissez-faire and libertarian-ish ideologies” (tags: economics politics US society) Second Law of Thermodynamics with Discrete Quantum Feedback Control You still can’t win, but you can do a little better than with… Continue reading links for 2008-03-01