May 2012
50 posts
“So the ideal social network (from an investor’s point of view) is one that...”
– Evil social networks - Charlie’s Diary
“Essentially, this kind of “hacking” is all about trying to make the best of:
...”
– Confessions of a recovering lifehacker « John Pavlus
“Several physicists weigh in on what would happen if you were to place your hand...”
– Putting your hand in the Large Hadron Collider
“These results provide further confirmation of the acceptability of the simple...”
– Experimental simulation of A-bomb gamma ray spectra: revisited
“One technical problem was that buried objects—especially during winter—can get...”
– Blue Peacock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“A grizzled NASA veteran once told me that the Apollo moon landings were...”
– Innovation Starvation | Neal Stephenson | World Policy Institute
“But electric kilns have the reputation of producing mediocre work and it...”
– NCECA 2004—Great Results from Electric Kilns
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons... →
The Escapist : News : Gamma: A Post-Apocalyptic... →
“you’ll soon find yourself on the other side of the mysterious time portal,...”
– Notes From The Underground | Slow Travel Berlin
“If we can figure out a way of putting a probe through [Europa’s] ice — and...”
– except that they won’t :( as NASA backed out from the JUICE mission.
There’s more water on Jupiter’s moon Europa than there is on Earth
“I think cyberpunk and the Singularity are only two of the three recent SF...”
– SF, big ideas, ideology: what is to be done? - Charlie’s Diary
“What usually gets me excited is seeing science fiction that extrapolates from...”
– SF, big ideas, ideology: what is to be done? - Charlie’s Diary
“We used to read SF to get the heady high of a big vision, the “eyeball...”
– SF, big ideas, ideology: what is to be done? - Charlie’s Diary
“In fact, in the past 30 years the only truly challenging new concepts to come...”
– SF, big ideas, ideology: what is to be done? - Charlie’s Diary
“Historically, almost all civilisations prior to the Enlightenment ran on the...”
– SF, big ideas, ideology: what is to be done? - Charlie’s Diary
Neutrino observatories will send early e-mail alerts on discovery of a local, Milky Way, supernova. And they will sign it with a PGP key:
http://snews.bnl.gov/alert.html
Some time later, machines will trade via directed neutrino beams:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2012/04/30/neutrinos-to-give-high-frequency-traders-the-millisecond-edge/
Neutrinos are so fucking future.
“Anykščių rajono apylinkės teismas, pakartotinai išnagrinėjęs administracinės...”
– Teismas: kunigas šokoladus pavogė tyčia - Naujienų portalas Alfa.lt
“Jei jie yra menininkai, tai bet koks žmogžudys yra fluxininkas.”
– Algis Ramanauskas: „Jei grafitininkas yra menininkas, tai žmogžudys – fluxininkas“ | Zmones.lt
“Moscow has accused Nato of seeking to undermine its nuclear deterrent”
– BBC News - Russia tests secret missile after Nato shield launched
“don’t underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives.”
– http://hoggresearch.blogspot.de/2012/05/gelman-photons.html
“During the NSA Operations some other curious things happened: It was noticed...”
– Teufelsberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“So popular is the Beckoning Cat in Asia, that in Thailand, the local prosperity...”
– http://www.luckymojo.com/beckoningcat.html
Amanda Palmer: BRAAAINS: the artist, divided, and... →
this is the fucking future.
the old label system is DYING.
artists are going to ASK YOU FOR DIRECT SUPPORT.
that’s the reality.
as bob dylan so clearly put it in a great song:
please get out of the way if you can’t lend a hand, motherfuckers.
the times, they are a-changing.
“Organizationally we were commited to a few basic principles:
Treat everyone...”
– Big Black: Pig Pile
“Seasonality can also be fabricated, Baudrillard’s fourth stage of...”
– NN
“Funniest thing about smashing up your stuff: some punk rock kid immediately...”
– Action Park: Big Black
“As is true every time an industry changes, the people who used to have it easy...”
– Electrical Audio • View topic - The Problem With Music: Still a Problem (Cracker/CVB ed.)
“There won’t ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that’s...”
– I am Steve Albini, ask me anything : IAmA
“The pilot appears to have crash-landed the plane and then walked off into the...”
– BBC News - World War II fighter found in Egyptian desert
“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
– Albert Einstein
(via sirmitchell)
“So here’s the thing: Railsea is metafictional as @%#&. Ugh, that word...”
– Ride China Miéville’s Crazy Train in Railsea
Oak & Grain: Jim Beam & Cream →
oakandgrain:
Tonight we’re taking a slight departure from the drinks I’ve cataloged so far. Instead of something fancy accompanied with a poem, we’re treading into party territory. The kind with paper hats and poppers. No clowns, though, unless they bring a fifth of JB.
A word about Jim Beam: JB…
MAKE | Art Car as “Weapon of Mass Instruction” →
“Nevada changed its laws to allow self-driven cars in March. The long-term plan...”
– BBC News - Google gets Nevada driving licence for self-drive car
“So what does the shutdown of library.nu mean? The publishers think it is a great...”
– The disappearing virtual library - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
“Skaudu taip sakyti, bet Lietuva, ko gera, yra vienintelė valstybė, daug gavusi –...”
– L.Briedis: ir rusų, ir vokiečių okupantai Vilniuje privilegijavo lietuvius - DELFI Žinios
“Sino Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of microblogging site Twitter, already has...”
– BBC News - Cracks in the wall: Will China’s Great Firewall backfire?
“The idea is that by sending neutrino-based buy-and-sell messages via a...”
– Neutrinos to Give High-Frequency Traders the Millisecond Edge - Forbes
“In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned that...”
– BBC News - US sees sharp rise in newborns with opiate withdrawal
“Imagine the end result of a group of hackers raiding corporate servers for...”
– Financial (Secret) Services - Interview by Isaac Stone Fish | Foreign Policy
