Obligatory post from the new
Obligatory post from the new Apple Store in Tyson’s Corner… I’m having too much fun to write more. (The new iBook is incredible.)
Obligatory post from the new Apple Store in Tyson’s Corner… I’m having too much fun to write more. (The new iBook is incredible.)
My computer literacy is zero. It's partly because it wasn't easy to learn, so I just gave up.His Holiness the Dalai Lama is spending this week in Silicon Valley.
The news organization has to elevate the significance of stories about communities of color. Those stories have to be seen as part of the path to success and not part of the path to obscurity.
The boxes are supposed to help you focus your attention on one post at a time. The prominent dates floating to the left ought to help you see what’s new since your last visit. The thin border around the list of links is similarly intended to help you isolate that part of the page mentally as you scan for information. The title is supposed to be murmured more often than shouted, and the strip is just for fun. What works and what doesn’t?
“Where the hell did they get these kids?"
“It doesn’t matter."
You’ll probably enjoy this.
The appeal of laissez-faire capitalism, as it spread around the world until it vanquished even the Soviets, was simple: You need neither a change in structures nor a change in human nature. Instead, the bad side of human nature -- the greed, competitiveness, and materialism -- could be counted on to magically produce enough wealth that many people could actually enjoy the easy life that the utopians and commissars could only promise. That is the revolutionary idea of our time, and it has cast into a sepia shadow both Gandhi and Lenin. We distrust moralizing as thoroughly as we distrust government; in a cynical age, our ultimate trust is in the notion that trust is unnecessary, that we should each simply advance our own cause.Bill McKibben writing for Mother Jones about the joys of renunciation.
If you saw my check, you'd understand.Pedro Gomez sets up portable toilets in New York City.
I love outdoor art. Washingtonpost.com has a small photo gallery depicting murals from throughout the nation’s capital. The best murals are probably found in the West and SouthwestΒLos Angeles (the mural capital of the world), Austin, San Francisco, Tucson and San Diego have some great ones.
Phil Greenspun’s online photo-illustrated Travels with Samantha makes me long for the open road and the beautiful countryside my wife and I saw on our honeymoon. Her favorite spot was Yellowstone. I’ll never forget skinny-dipping in Lake Powell.
“frontwheeldrive humbly attempts to bring intelligent reporting to emerging sciences such as Artificial Intelligence, Memetics, Complexity, Chaos Theory and the like with a nod toward design and an open eye on new media. Forever forward in the pursuit of positive stimuli. Information in formation.” It does a good job, and boasts some big names.
“PliNkit! is a collection of useful links that work very well, or are designed for viewing on a palmtop computer. It is designed to be a no frills easy to navigate listing of these sites.” One day I will have my cell phone hooked up to my Palm III and that day I will come to randomWalks and search for “lynx” and find this post because it has the word lynx in it. Then I will bookmark PliNkit! on my Palm and never think about this post again.
Look here: say you have a disk that can spin, and so you put a pail of milk on it and you make it spin. You will see the milk go up the side of the pail, and fly over and out onto the disk. No big deal, eh? The spin will make a pull. But now what if you said that the pail of milk is your "at rest"? Then you have you and the sky and all that in a big huge spin, and the disk with its pail of milk is the only body that is "at rest", yes? How can you say then why the milk goes up? What can make the at-rest milk fly out of the pail like that?Brian Raiter explains the theory of relativity in very short words of no more than four letters.
I was hitchhiking around Europe in 1971, when I was 18, with this copy of A Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe. At one point I found myself lying in the middle of a field, a little bit drunk, when it occurred to me that somebody should write a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It didn't occur to me that it might actually be me years later.CNN is reporting that author Douglas Adams died of a heart attack on Friday. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
rft’s photography / Tips and Tricks contains “helpful information for working with digital photos [and especially those] taken with the Nikon Coolpix 950 or Nikon Coolpix 990.”
OH. Now I get it!(doing a V-8 head slap)...getting your system to run Myst III is the first puzzle of the game! Ubisoft is pure genius...(where's the cheat?)...Overheard on the Myst III: Exile tech support forum.
OC Weekly regular Alison M. Rosen is the funniest writer in the history of free papers. Her recent master-works cover phallic Christian vegetables, Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light (tm), and penis duplication kits.
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Read CNN.com without the ads. You can thank me later. Also, Nic’s tricks filter Salon and Slate, stripping out the tables and graphics with a short perl script and serving up the articles like it’s 1994. Dig it. This page of lookups looks handy too. I wonder when I’ll get around to making one of my own.
Things in nature often move in complicated ways. You have probably watched the way a butterfly moves. The molecules of the air that you are breathing move in a similar way. This type of motion we call a random walk. You can also take a random walk.
Suppose the Earth is all one big single living organism, with all the elements of it connected like cells in a body. Suppose the goal of evolution is to link up individual human minds, bringing an explosion of intelligence and even global consciousness to this mammoth being.Now suppose the above quote leads into a Washington Post article on ... bird watching? Apparently this guy, and by "guy" I mean French Jesuit Scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, proposed this notion back in 1940 but it was hard to take seriously for a lot of people for a long time until the Internet appeared and here and there folks began to say "wait a minute" and now you get folks like John Perry Barlow, erstwhile Grateful Dead lyricist and founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, suggesting that worldwide changes in human development, agriculture and preservation in response to real-time bird observations resulting in a virtuous circle of renewed habitats and rejuvenated populations reflect the beginnings of a global consciousness evidenced by "large-scale interaction between the greater 'us' and the greater 'them'". Don't look at me. Is that a sparrow?
Who was Jeremy Bentham? What is utilitarianism? (Why am I asking?)
“There are a number of excellent sites out there for people wanting to shave their heads, or just connect to others who share the hairstyle,” and Head Shaver’s Information and FAQ is probably the best of them.
On Alt-log: Apparently Baltimore City Paper has a regular column called Funny Paper in which they humorously deconstruct the comics. It reminds me of a less straightforward version of the wonderful “Comics I Don’t Understand."
If you have seen the remarkable photos in The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition), you will certainly not begrudge me the sharing of them with anyone else. (In the early 1900s, Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorskii created color images by shooting simultaneously with three black and white cameras fitted with red, green, and blue filters. The resulting images were projected back through colored filters onto a screen for display.) The photos are technically marvelous, but more striking is the dissonance between the “modern” medium and “historic” subject matter, if you take my meaning. Have a look!
