As you know, even if you’re not Bob, I promised to “dance like a monkey” if my DonorsChoose challenge passed $6,000 in donations, which it did. Thus, I am obliged to dance like a monkey. You might think this would be a simple matter of capering about in a loose-limbed, vaguely simian manner, but it’s… Continue reading Dance Like a Monkey
Month: November 2008
links for 2008-11-04
Fafblog! the whole world’s only source for Fafblog. ""All we really need is some kind of simple technological solution," says Giblets, "like a garbage-powered weather machine or a synthetic source of God."" (tags: fafblog science environment silly blogs) McCain Refusing To Tell Voters What’s In Box Unless Elected | The Onion – America’s Finest News… Continue reading links for 2008-11-04
The Importance of Temperment
Kevin Drum is amused by a historical comparison: THEN AND NOW….In 2004, everyone complained that John Kerry was an old-media plodder who didn’t react quickly enough to conservative attacks. What a dunce! In 2008, everyone is praising Barack Obama for keeping his composure and not letting conservative attacks knock him off his message. What a… Continue reading The Importance of Temperment
Quantum Computing Candidates: Liquid State NMR
Continuing the series of descriptions of candidate technologies for making a quantum computer (previous entries covered optical lattices and ion traps), we come to one that’s a little controversial. It’s the only remaining candidate I can describe off the top of my head without doing some more background reading, though, so I will plunge ahead… Continue reading Quantum Computing Candidates: Liquid State NMR
Advantage: Comic-o-sphere
Is it just me, or is this New York Times article on undecided voters just a more genteel version of this Daily Show segment on undecided voters? (Personally, all the people in the Times sound like they want to vote for McCain, but know there’s no good reason to do so. They’ll talk themselves into… Continue reading Advantage: Comic-o-sphere
links for 2008-11-03
Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / World Fantasy Awards Winners! Congratulations to all the winners. (tags: books sf awards literature) CDF Ghost Muons | Cosmic Variance More thoughts on the maybe-a-particle, maybe-a-background-effect news from Fermilab. (tags: science physics experiment particles news blogs) The Happiness Project: Paradoxes of Happinesss: the sadness of… Continue reading links for 2008-11-03
Early Voting, By the Numbers
With the election nearly upon us, I’ve started regularly following Talking Points Memo again. Late last night, Josh Marshall wrote about the early voting results: Among those who’ve already voted, it’s Obama 57%, McCain 38%. And that number is not inconsistent with numbers coming out of a lot of the early voting states. CBS says… Continue reading Early Voting, By the Numbers
The Rich Get Richer, Internet Edition
Via FriendFeed, an interesting analysis of Internet traffic at compete.com. They set out to test the assertion that the “Long Tail” of low-traffic sites account for more traffic than they used to, and found exactly the opposite– the share of all pageviews for the top ten domains increased from 29% to 40% between 2001 and… Continue reading The Rich Get Richer, Internet Edition
DonorsChoose Wrap-Up
It’s now November, so the annual DonorsChoose fundraiser is officially over. According to the official leader board, at the time of this writing, ScienceBlogs has raised just under $30,000, from 302 donors, funding projects that will help 9,810 students. Those numbers may increase in the next day or two, as I think a lot of… Continue reading DonorsChoose Wrap-Up
Pimp Me Video Editing Software
So, I’ve recorded a bunch of video for the dance-like-a-monkey thing. I want to edit several of these clips together in order to form a longer clip. I did this once before with video recorded using Kate’s camera, to make the Hoops With Moss video, using the Movie Maker program that came with Vista on… Continue reading Pimp Me Video Editing Software