March 2008
36 posts
“Human cognition has a problem — anecdotal thinking comes naturally whereas...”
– From Michael Shermer’s review of the new book Charlatan, a book that is going on my wish list, mostly due to the titular charlatan’s particular quackery, which was the inserting of goat testes into the scrotums and near the ovaries of humans.
Muxtape / jprickett →
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have a muxtape, too. The songs are mainly what I have been listening to for the past day or so, inspired by reading a review at the A.V Club of the re-released special edition of the Lemonheads album, It’s a Shame About Ray. Which means you won’t find any of your fancy modern indie rock here. Just stuff that I might have been listening to in the early- to mid-90s....
BSG-tastic!
Hulu has a couple of interesting BSG related shows up right now. The first is Battlestar Galactica: Revealed, which is a great introduction to the show and the characters and the story arcs through the eyes of Executive Producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eike. I can’t really recommend it for getting people who haven’t watched the show up to speed…but, if you have friends...
WatchHeavy Metal Dog I lol’d, hard. [via: pajiba]
“ITHACA, NY—After weeks of being sleepy all the time and never finishing his...”
– Daddy Put In Bye-Bye Box | The Onion Saddest Onion story ever. [via: scalzi]
“Spaghetti Western is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western film that...”
– Spaghetti Western - Wikipedia
“So, I’m throwing my hands in the air and giving up on a deeper meaning, which I...”
– Pajiba - Horton Hears a Who
“In 1841, explorer James Clark Ross passed through what is now known as the Ross...”
– Antarctica and Ross Ice Shelf - Wikipedia Ross Crater on the moon is also named for James Clark Ross.
“I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who...”
– Bob Newhart, attributed
Woman sits on boyfriend's toilet for 2 years -... →
“Deputies said a woman in western Kansas sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for two years, and they’re investigating whether she was mistreated. […] “She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body,” Whipple said. “It is hard to imagine. … I still have a hard time imagining it myself.””[via: jscalzi]
Audio Players
nostrich: I’m trying to find a service that allows me to upload mp3s and link to them from elsewhere, directly. What I also need to be able to do is use that URL to embed an audio player in a webpage. Ideally, I’d like to find a service that does both in as few clicks as possible. But separate services for each part works too. Ideally, free would be nice. But I’m willing to spend a few dollars...
All Linkin Park songs sound exactly the same →
Looks like someone did a version of Nickleback Sucks with Linkin Park. You will need headphones for the full effect. [via: bnelson]
“We see tons of startups predicated on the so-called “wisdom of crowds”, an idea...”
– Questioning The Wisdom Of Crowds (via marco) Anyone who is interested in ideas related to “the wisdom of crowds” or emergence theory should check out this episode of Radiolab. Suffice to say, the idea that “you can’t bake wisdom by cooking with ignorance”, as the article...
caragh: I am finally doing what I’ve meant to do for the past eight months, (re)watch every episode of lost back to back. The main reason I have not posted much here this week is because I have been doing the exact same thing. Instead of spending my down time at work desperately trying to keep up with my feeds and the people I follow on Tumblr, I have have been watching Lost from the...
Wheel Of Fortune Fail →
A collection of videos guaranteed to make you feel smart, if only in comparison to these people.
