April 2007
72 posts
“at four o clock it’s “don’t even praise me on anything that...”
– feminism takes a blow (from magnificentmarie)
“in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence”
– the peter principle (from wikipedia)
“the team, from the ibm almaden research lab and the university of nevada, ran...”
– on simulating half a mouse brain (from bbc news)
“i believe the human race has no future if it doesn’t go into space”
– stephen hawking (from bbc news)
“i suspect i have spent just about exactly as much time actually writing as the...”
– author william gibson (from his web site)
“he doesn’t seem the sort of bloke we want in this country”
– australian immigration minister kevin andrews on australia’s denying a visa to snoop dogg (from bbc news)
Watchwow. get more ridiculous. but 300 is cool and so are kittens, so… (from cute overload)
“experience is not years on the job, it’s learning to recognize a problem...”
– rob walling
“i’ve found that people who are great at something are not so much...”
– paul graham
my solutions to mathnet's geometry puzzles →
screencaptures of my solutions to mathnet’s house geomtry puzzles
elect susie flynn for president →
why the wii is soooo unavailable →
from the freakanomics authors’ blog
“the professor, she said, looked at the sign-in sheet and where everyone else had...”
– on the virginia tech shooter (from bbc news)
“i don’t need friends. i have gin.”
– will
“i see no reason to feel hours need to be on the engineering quad.
dammit! ...”
– from one of the greatest (and most humorous) ta’s i know
“the microsoft gorilla, on the other hand, cannot be trained. instead, you must...”
– from the annotated / updated version of neal stephenson’s in the beginning was the command line at badmonkeys.net.
blending an ipod →
“can you at least commit to a facebook relationship?”
– (overheard on campus)
virginia tech on flickr →
what a terrible thing to have happened…
“twitter is a victim of its own success. the site has massive scaling problems,...”
– from codinghumor.com
the 10 real reasons why geeks make better lovers →
“the present vogue of the big laboratory is a new thing in science. there are...”
– norbert wiener, the human use of human beings (p126).
“the skill by which the french and english do great amounts of work with...”
– norbert wiener, the human use of human beings (p126).
“the idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an...”
– norbert wiener, the human use of human beings (p120).
“we are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. we are not stuff that...”
– norbert wiener, the human use of human beings (p96).
http://www.neave.com/planetarium/ →
“such is the popularity of second life fashion that real-world brands have...”
– from the daily mail
Watchtransformer costumes (from daily motion
“margot: DINNNERRR!
margot: stop being a computer nerd and come eat.”
– phil at work and margot communicating her hunger over IM
“using internet explorer will give you herpes.”
– anonymous cs ta…
“james joyce’ “ulysses” has 24765 lines. reading one every...”
– swotter is twittering joyce’ ulysses…
“the department of defense’s iris project will put an internet router in...”
– bbc tech news
twittervision →
“palpatine is dispatching me on an errand to put steve and the cupertino folks...”
– darth vadar
“margot (gf): stop meowing at my computer!”
– on me looking at the great cat photo i posted below…
liminal: a term favoured particularly by post-colonial critics, and which refers to the thresholds, boundaries and borderlines of binary constructions (black/white, masculine/feminine, englishness/irishness). these oppositions are often false, producing blurring and gaps which might be exploited in order to deconstruct these oppositions.