January 2012
21 posts
“Somehow, blacking out the ‘crawl to protest SOPA/PIPA just doesn’t...”
– Peter Watts
Turn your camera phone into a Geiger counter -... →
S&S: Please help me understand the convolution! →
Here is the continuous (dirac) impulse function (formally, this stuff about the dirac delta is disputed by mathematicians whom do not like the neanderthal engineering way of looking at it.)
“Such a mixed bag of tools is an inadequate solution for a variety of reasons....”
– Open writing projects/Python all a scientist needs - OpenWetWare
“the machine learners got their Bayes from astronomers Gauss and Laplace. Now the...”
– Hogg’s Research
Truth and consequences: FRONTLINE's brilliant... →
“The biggest problem with water is the waste of water through lack of charging.”
– 2000 Cochabamba protests - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Our galaxy, as Mr Bressert put it, “is basically like champagne, there are...”
– BBC News - Bubble-blowing stars seen in the thousands by public
“In April 2009 it was reported from Saudi Arabia that rumors that Singer sewing...”
– Red mercury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“At 0.1c, Orion thermonuclear starships would require a flight time of at least...”
– Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Often the world’s tallest buildings are simply the edifice of a broader...”
– BBC News - Skyscrapers ‘linked with impending financial crashes’
“Bijoma paties miesto ir jo istorijos. Nuo Vilniaus yra bėgama, nes jo istorija...”
– Laimonas Briedis. „Vilniaus istorijos tiesiog bijoma“ - Bernardinai.lt
“The red Ampelmännchen appeared in dangerous moments”
– Ampelmännchen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freakonomics » When Radio Kills →
“Calendricists have a word for a day and a night, namely,...”
– Julian Day Numbers
“As usual, astronomers have taken a simple concept like “years” and...”
– Another orbit? Why, you don’t look a rotation older than 4.56 billion years! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
“He couldn’t work in the mornings at all. As far as that goes, it went that way...”
– Oral History Transcript — Mrs. Annemarie Schrodinger
December 2011
26 posts
“Asked whether some might see negative security implications in the idea of...”
– BBC News - Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship
“Infest Wisely asks what would happen if Critical Mass teamed up with the geeks...”
– “Infest Wisely” Is a Great Lo-Fi Sci-Fi Nanopunk Flick | Underwire | Wired.com
“1 to 2 percent of the U.S. military are gang members”
– Gangs Increasing in Military, FBI Says | Military.com
“Tuomet man staiga kilo noras tam pankiškos išvaizdos vaikinui padaryti kažką...”
– Vilniaus centre pankui veidą peiliu perrėžęs vyras: jis man pasirodė atgrasus - DELFI Žinios
“The thing about harsh authoritarian regimes is it’s not laws, or courts,...”
– Vladimir Putin’s world is falling apart | Masha Gessen | Comment is free | The Guardian
“Ultimately astronomers’ understanding of the age and future evolution of...”
– Pleiades - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ironically, a bomb fell on this very street during Edinburgh’s only Zeppelin raid in April 1916.
“It was, in other words, unlike anything in any of our lifetimes, probably unlike...”
– The Protester - Person of the Year 2011 - TIME
“in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope’s awesome view of the...”
– Amazon.com: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (9780446697965): Christopher Hitchens: Books
“One way to celebrate Grav-mass is to decorate a tree with apples and other...”
– Celebrate Grav-mass
“ehold Oscar Newman’s 1969 plan to hollow out an entire, nuclear-resistant...”
– A 1969 plan to build a second, nuke-proof Manhattan below New York City
“He did not get his shoes. He went to jail,” Officer Mike Murphy said.”
– BBC News - Air Jordan release sparks stampedes at stores across US
“Plus there is good karma in helping all the tom cats restrain their lust!”
– Frequently Asked Questions - Sterilisation | Cat Welfare Society
“In traditional U.S. Army slang dating back to the Second World War, a blivet was...”
– Blivet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Dealing with North Korea was Groundhog Day, recurring cycles of charm and...”
– BBC News - Life after Kim Jong-il: What next for North Korea?
“Every 3D printer should seamlessly integrate a 3D scanner, even if it makes the...”
– 3D printers as teleporters - Boing Boing
“As other Soviet warships were cut up for scrap, a Chinese company with links to...”
– BBC News - Picture of China’s first refitted warship ‘emerges’
“4Chan.org is a primary node in the fundamental clash of the centre and the...”
– WikiLeaks: A tale of two worlds
“It was only because Cold War strategists had to narrate to themselves the...”
– WikiLeaks: A tale of two worlds
“monokultūrizmas mirė bunkeryje Berlyne 1945-aisiais.”
– Ir Lietuvoje galima gyventi. I dalis – Ore.lt
“Roughly 1.25 million Russians have left the country in the last 10 years, Sergei...”
– Russia is seeing an emigration exodus - Los Angeles Times
“Later that month, an employee of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation was...”
– Bitcoin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“We occupy the world in which, even with an infinite amount of time, hopelessness...”
– A mathematical bug shows us why the 3D universe carries the possibility of despair. Really.
Aivas RAGAUSKAS. Iš Vilniaus miesto socialinio... →
“And do you know what happens when you are looked upon by an something that...”
– How philosophy explains why Steven Moffat’s monsters are seriously fucking scary
“In this sense, “SF prototyping” is to the futurist what the Chernoff face is to...”
– No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons (Re-reloaded) » Cops, Control, and KoolAid: some thoughts on Madeline Ashby’s “Loss Prevention”
November 2011
17 posts
“These are the folks that mortgage and pension advertising campaigns fail to...”
– Then we take Berlin - Music, Entertainment - Herald.ie
“As for Schrodinger’s cat, the fact is that any realistic cat inside a...”
– Guest Post: David Wallace on the Physicality of the Quantum State | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine
“Perhaps Dubai disturbed me so much, I am thinking, because here, the entire...”
– The dark side of Dubai - Johann Hari - Commentators - The Independent