September 2009
31 posts
“Hummer drivers believe they are defending America’s frontier lifestyle...”
– Sciene Daily
“Just imagine if computers could be seen, heard, or felt as easily as, for...”
– Greg Pfister, What Multicore Really Means
Saeco Portafilters →
Project ‘Gaydar’: An MIT experiment raises new... →
“That pulls the rug out from a whole policy and technology perspective that the point is to give you control over your information - because you don’t have control over your information.” — Hal Abelson, computer science professor at MIT
Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic... →
Claiming it to be one of the most dramatic and visible signs of climate change to date, researchers said that receding polar ice caps have revealed nearly 200 clandestine lairs once buried deep beneath hundreds of feet of Arctic ice.
“The world is divided into 10 types of people. Those who understand binary and...”
Maori legend of man-eating bird is true →
“You have zero privacy anyway … get over it.”
– Scott McNealy, Sun CEO, in 1999
WatchWATCH IT
“I’m appalled that some institutions are already wanting to return to the...”
– Gordon Brown
jawncharles:
i got 188% on my statistics test (my teacher was stupid enough to make the bonus points worth more than the normal part of the test… but hey, i’m not complaining).
There’s something sweetly ironic about getting 188% on a statistics test, methinks.
Sauerteig für Anfänger →
“Economists have made a growth industry of seeking out or concocting...”
– Willem Buiter
“While I am pleased that my tweeting had such a positive effect, I have to...”
– Stephen Fry
Story collection soars after Fry Tweet →
A book of short stories has leaped up Amazon’s book charts to become second only to Dan Brown after Stephen Fry endorsed it on his Twitter feed.
“Beyond clearing up the obvious errors, the larger question is whether...”
– Language Log
“A train wreck: a mish-mash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess.”
– Language Log on Google Books metadata
“The next European Commission will have an exceptionally difficult task. At a...”
– Bruegel