I watched a video of Adam Savage at a hacker con in NYC. You should watch it too. He talks about Mythbusters, and also has a lot of other good stuff. Strongly recommended.
Bonus: Look for his pirated copy of The Dark Knight.
I’ve got a post at Websites and Beer talking about adding vinegar to beer. Blasphemy? Maybe not…read on.
I’m reposting this here, because it’s sort of a follow up to my post about cheap versus expensive wines. Hooray for food. Hooray for science. And hooray for food & science together!
I love Science. I don’t just love Science, I *fucking* love it. Maybe I’ll do a post on the Science sticks someday.
There’s a webcomic I particularly like, called XKCD. It’s Science-y, Math-y, geek humor. Perfect for me.
One of the best is the following comic, good old #397. I love it because Feynman (one of the […]
I’m sharing the link love today. This is a link to Futility Closet, a blog run by a very nice (and presumably well-educated) guy named Greg Ross. He updates often with lots of odd bits of trivia.
He had a post the other day, discussing the price that was paid to the Native Americans for the […]
My coworker Jacob shared a neat cell phone tip with me. If you often get solicitations from a particular phone number (especially those annoying automated ones), you might find this useful.
Next time you get a call from a number you’d rather not hear from again, add them to your phone book — maybe with the […]
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One hugely important thing in coding is debugging. Unfortunately, a lot of Javascript debugging gets done via alert() calls. This gets awkward quickly, with the alerts affecting timing, and just being annoying if you have to dump large amounts of data out.
Firebug is a great development tool, and has a really handy logging interface that […]
Zombie Feynman got me reading about Feynman, and I came across a great page discussing Feynman’s involvement with the textbook industry. Although it’s funny at times, it’s fairly sad that this is actually the back end of our education system.
Saw a post on the Freakonomics blog about wines, and people’s abilities to tell the difference between good and bad wines. I love Levitt for his willingness to piss people off in the pursuit of truth (read the part about the scholar who stormed out of the room!) Anyways, there was a large study done, […]
This post is for those of you who follow international politics on any level.
The US has had a policy of not speaking to Iran for many years. There’s even a debate in the current presidential election around “should we talk to our enemies?”. Well, apparently someone in the current US administration thinks so.
There’s a lot […]
I don’t know Twitter’s mission statement, but to me it seems like it should involve enabling stream-of-consciousness communication. When I look at heavy Twitter users (especially those with iPhones), it is close to stream-of-consciousness — it seems like they’re sending every other thought to Twitter. But it’s not stream-of-consciousness for most people, there’s too much […]