February 2010
January 2010
Zeno and the Sound of a Seed
Zeno, and later Aristotle, make this great argument in an attempt to discredit knowledge from sensation.
Zeno asks, “Does a single seed make a sound in falling?” If the answer is yes, then he asks, “Does a half of a seed make a sound in falling,” etc. until he gets a “no.” When he gets to a “no,” Zeno points out that since a sum of zeros is zero,...
White House Tapes of LBJ Ordering Pants →
Mostly for my friends Zach and Ethan, who I know share my fascination with LBJ.
Here’s a recording of LBJ ordering some pants - I couldn’t stop laughing at this. It’s not at all safe for work.
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“There’s no such thing as a proprietary book. There’s no such thing as a license...”
– Cory Doctorow, here. (via allthewaydown)
Why are you so terribly disappointing?
Marc Morford, via SteveTemkin:
What the hell is wrong with you? Are you really going to wear that? Why aren’t you right now cooking me a nice meal and wearing those hot boy shorts you know I love and saying those words you know I want to hear at exactly the moment I like to hear them, to make me feel better about everything, even though I probably won’t?
What happened to my bonus?...
45% of Americans are Young Earth Creationists
A new Gallup poll shows that:
Just a little more than a third of the American public is willing to agree with the “scientific theory well supported by evidence” alternative, while the same percentage chooses the “not well supported by evidence” alternative. Another 30% indicate that they don’t know enough about it to say or have no opinion. There has been...
Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger
CORNISH, NH—In this big dramatic production that didn’t do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud. “He had a real impact on the literary world and on millions of readers,” said hot-shot English professor...
Australia Bans Small Breasts in Pornography
The Register:
Breasts came under the spotlight a year ago, as Senators Barnaby Joyce and Guy Barnett commenced a campaign against publicly available porn. Rounding up magazines from corner shops and filling stations, Senator Joyce claimed that publications featuring small-breasted women were encouraging paedophilia.
The result of this campaign is now visible in the decisions being made by the...
“This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law...”
– President Barack Obama, SOTU address.
Yes, yes, yes. (via thedailywhat)
“So cool. I can’t count the number of times I’ve said, “If only this iPhone...”
– Daniel Radosh on fb (via danielholter) (via apsies) (via evangotlib)
Frantic Steve Jobs Stays Up All Night Designing...
CUPERTINO, CA—Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple’s new tablet computer. “Come on, Steve, just think—think, dammit—you’re running out of time,” the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of...
Don DeLillo on David Foster Wallace
INFINITY.
This is the subject of David Wallace’s book on the mathematics, the philosophy and the history of a vast, beautiful, abstract concept. There are ref- erences in the book to Zeno’s dichotomy and Goldbach’s conjecture, to Hausdorff ’s maximal principle. There is also the offset- ting breeze of Dave’s plainsong – OK then and sort of and no kidding and stuff like this.
His work,...
In 1980, 16 shipwrecked Danish fishermen were... →
Cool article about hypothermia.
davidmanque asked: I need to get my two cents in - that Daily Herald letter is a loser (at least to me). It makes Seals into Mr. Rogers.
After seeing Rep. Julie Hamos and business consultant Dan Seals speak, I made my choice. While Rep. Hamos offered a very compelling argument for her election, Dan Seals won over my mind and my heart through his amazing ability to reach out to my fellow students and I. Dan showed actual interest in talking policy with 17 and 18 year old students, many of whom will not even be able to vote in the...
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Anonymous asked: You helped campaign for Obama. You've done graphic design work for Obama. From this, it seems likely that you are very pro-Obama. You seem well-informed as well. It is because of those things I ask you this: What are your biggest problems with Obama?
Teenager Finds Definition Of Oral Sex In... →
“Many desperate acts of design (including gradients, drop shadows, and the...”
– Noreen Morioka
“Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.”
– Edward Tufte
“Design is the search for a magical balance between business and art; art and...”
– Valerie Pettis
Anonymous asked: How did you become so involved in projects like Humans versus Zombies and co-founding your own gaming website? I mean you obviously didn't wake up one day and decide to do all these things..can you recall what circumstances drove you to be a part of these things?
“A report last year by the Sustainable Packaging Alliance, commissioned by...”
– Bag the bag: a new green monster is on the rise
Hey everyone, I’ve been saying this for years. My advice: Be highly skeptical of “green” initiatives that are consumer rather than political choices and/or involve you buying something.
Simply use paper bags when available and...
“Visual design is often the polar opposite of engineering: trading hard edges for...”
– Scott Stevenson
bensgrabbag:
maxistentialist:
I’m going to see a midnight showing of “The Room” in dc. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_(film)?wasRedirected=true
Where is the showing?
E street cinema. Think there are still tickets.
I’m going to see a midnight showing of “The Room” in dc. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_(film)?wasRedirected=true