January 14, 2010 – 12:22 am
Around the time Toy Story was coming to theaters, a high school art teacher of mine said she couldn’t consider something that was computer animated to be art. I think this opinion stemmed from the misconception that once you learned to use computerized tools to do 2D or 3D animation you could create anything with [...]
I’d say that this is one of the most amazing photos ever taken.
January 20, 2008 – 8:57 pm
A selection from Martin Luther King’s Letter from the Birmingham Jail: I had hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth concerning time in relation to the struggle for freedom. I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. He writes: “All Christians know that the colored people will receive equal [...]
January 11, 2008 – 9:48 pm
I mean that in the best possibly way though. I’ve posted my first substantive diary there this evening. In two short hours my thoughts on skepticism and Kucinich’s recount of the 2008 New Hampshire presidential primary generated 80 comments and 19 people voted to put it on the recommended diary list. That’s a lot of [...]
October 11, 2007 – 2:11 am
John Gruber had this to say about Southwest Airlines’ new boarding pass information site: The numbered boarding passes are a fair change, and should eliminate the silly lines at the gate. But it’s hard to believe a major airline produced something designed like this. It looks like the rules for a Girl Scouts troop. The [...]
Oh, the joys of a brilliant, mercury poisoned mind gone off to Parliament. Newton was also a member of the Parliament of England from 1689 to 1690 and in 1701, but his only recorded comments were to complain about a cold draft in the chamber and request that the window be closed.
January 8, 2007 – 6:37 pm
Isn’t it kinda disturbing that a city and parts of a neighboring state could smell something odd, and no one can figure out why? New York, of course, has had its share of mystery aromas, big and small. In 2005, an odd maple syrup smell overcame parts of Manhattan and New Jersey. Last August, an [...]
This Wikipedia article on Zeno’s paradoxes is one of the most interesting things I have read in a long while. What I especially like about it, and derive great amusement from, is how calculus attempts to solve the paradox, but in the end only reaffirms it. In short, trying to use calculus to resolve the [...]
These photos, taken by the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn, blow my mind. Slightly Beneath Saturn’s Ring Plane Enceladus Near Saturn Alien worlds
February 7, 2006 – 6:29 pm
Sweden plans to be oil free by 2020: Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15 years – without building a new generation of nuclear power stations. The attempt by the country of 9 million people to become the world’s [...]