April 2009
74 posts
“Dubai only has enough water to last us a week. There’s almost no storage....”
– Johann Hari in the Independent
“For reasons that are obscure to me, those qualities we cherish in our artists we...”
– Zadie Smith writing about the many voices of Obama in the NY Review of Books
“It’s amazing how many of our cross-cultural and cross-class encounters are...”
– Zadie Smith writing about the many voices of Obama in the NY Review of Books
“Imagine every page of every book individually competing with every page of every...”
– Steven Johnson in the WSJ
“It is the Western elite that has supposedly been hit hardest and changed...”
– We Are Not in a Great Depression in Newsweek
“If the observed patterns of amino acid formation — simple acids require low...”
– Humans and Aliens Might Share DNA Roots in Wired
“Ray comes in and they do like three slow doubletakes, because of comedy.”
– watching “everybody loves raymond” on mute (from dr radical)
“Abolish permanent departments, even for undergraduate education, and create...”
– Mark Taylor in the NYT
Watchslow motion HD shot at 1000 & 2500 frames per second. it looks like the jell-o at the end is levitating. (thanks, kev)
short history of mathematics →
great & really short
April 15th
jakelodwick:
Recall that by your nature as a human being, you have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and no reason exists why these rights can be taken away from you.
Unless the pursuit of your rights impedes on the rights of others.
“computers are the grave of civilization, the death of creativity…...”
– a cynical paolo
