January 2012
2 posts
WatchAtheism 2.0 - What aspects of religion should atheists (respectfully) adopt? Alain de Botton suggests a “religion for atheists” — call it Atheism 2.0 — that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need for connection, ritual and transcendence.
Herpderpedia →
People who don’t understand why Wikipedia is “down.” Priceless.
December 2011
3 posts
How doctors die →
It’s not like the rest of us, but it should be.
November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
5 posts
“We’re praying for Google, that it may make good honest choices and see the...”
– Christian organization I did a site for, their SEO strategy. (via clientsfromhell)
UC Berkeley Recreates Thought As Digital Video →
In what is perhaps the most significant breakthrough in cognitive neuroscience since the MRI itself, scientists at UC Berkeley have figured out a way to reconstruct brainwaves into digital video. Stop.
Read that again.
“Contrast this with the fact that there are zero known vegan societies in the...”
– Meat-eating and health (via sudobyte)
I always wanted to reblog my own quote. :)
September 2011
3 posts
7 tags
I was once a Facebook fool →
alexainslie:
“… If you are entrusting your life data to Facebook, or if you are depending on Facebook and its platform for your livelihood, beware. In the real Facebook world, there is no trust, and there is no friendship — there is only money and power. Think really hard — really, think — before trusting Facebook or its employees with anything.”
Why my fellow physicists think they know... →
“Part of the problem comes from the idea that physicists and engineers do ‘hard science’ while everyone else does, well, ‘easy science.’ We are told that physics is the core science and everything else is, essentially, just an elaboration atop the underlying physics. The implication is that we physicists, if we would only find problems in other fields interesting,...
1 tag
August 2011
2 posts
“If anyone tells you that [genetic modification] is going to feed the world, tell...”
– Steve Smith, biotech scientist
July 2011
4 posts
In praise of the Sous Vide Supreme →
“And then, there are the pork chops. I’ve struggled for years to get a perfectly cooked pork chop. I’ve tried pan frying, broiling, baking, and braising, and nothing works reliably. They’re just too lean and too thin. They overcook before the outside starts to brown. With sous vide, they’re just right, every time, with almost no effort. They’re cooked all the way through, but not overcooked,...
Dying of fatness? →
“I’ve examined a lot of scientific evidence about weight and health, and I’ve decided that a preponderance of the evidence points to a health at every size approach. The fact that no study on weight loss has ever been successful, the fact that over 95% of everyone who diets fails, Linda Bacon’s work on Health at Every Size and a host of other information has lead me to what I believe is a...
WatchDan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish
Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu.
June 2011
5 posts
What the world eats →
WatchIndie Game: The Movie is about making video games, but at its core, it’s about the creative process and exposing yourself through your work.
The Dangerous Mr. Khan →
alexainslie:
“As George Orwell wrote, in Oceania, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” Lord help us if Mr. Gates’s and Mr. Khan’s History ever becomes the universal template that controls students’ knowledge of the past—thereby affecting the choices they make in the future.”
May 2011
6 posts
“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my...”
– Bjarne Stroustrup
On TermKit →
“I’ve been administering Unix machines for many years now, and frankly, it kinda sucks. It makes me wonder, when sitting in front of a crisp, 2.3 million pixel display (i.e. a laptop) why I’m telling those pixels to draw me a computer terminal from the 80s.”
WatchI miss Cornell. :(
The decline effect and the scientific method : The... →
April 2011
6 posts
StarCraft II: making the fun meant taking out the... →
Is the multiple-monitor productivity boost a myth? →
“I’ve always heard that multiple monitors were supposed to boost your productivity, but this post on rebuilding your attention span mentions, in passing, a second monitor myth. So what’s the deal? Do multiple monitors boost productivity or not?”
Is sugar toxic? →
America's tech decline: a reading guide →
The finger test to check the doneness of meat →
March 2011
5 posts
Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You →
alexainslie:
” … Phone calls are rude. Intrusive. Awkward. “Thank you for noticing something that millions of people have failed to notice since the invention of the telephone until just now,” Judith Martin, a k a Miss Manners, said by way of opening our phone conversation. “I’ve been hammering away at this for decades. The telephone has a very rude propensity to interrupt people.””
Writing sensible email messages →
Game development: harder than you think →
Ten or twenty years ago it was all fun and games. Now it’s blood, sweat, and code. [PDF]
Why You Aren’t As Successful As You Want To Be →
stepa:
Brilliant.
February 2011
7 posts
Chess Music →
“For absolutely no good reason, I found myself wondering what a chess game would sound like if played on the piano.”
“If you’re Asian American — or if you have close Asian friends...”
– Jeff Yang
If MSG is so bad for you, why doesn't everyone in... →
“Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it’s...”
– Rob Pike (via guillermonkey)
How to find problems to work on →