December 2010
31 posts
Detexify, online LaTeX handwritten symbol... →
Track Your Happiness →
Track Your Happiness.org is a new scientific research project that investigates what makes life worth living.
Vortex Park →
More music from the makers of Through a Hole.
What Would Happen if You Bought 25 Bottles of... →
A better word for ‘nand’ is ‘precludes’; ‘to preclude’ is defined by Merriam-Webster as “to make impossible by necessary consequence”, and thus, a precludes b ≡ a→¬b ≡ a nand b.
endeavor →
an adventure game
Doctor Octoroc Presents | 8-Bit Dr. Horrible →
Holy crap—is it possible that somebody made Dr. Horrible… better?!?
Doctor Octoroc Presents: 8-Bit Jesus →
Holiday themed chiptunes inspired by pairs of the form (Christmas song, classic video game) with titles such as “WE THREE KONAMI”, “THE LEGEND OF NOEL”, and “HAVE YOURSELF A FINAL LITTLE FANTASY”. The full 18-track album is available for listening online.
Isle of Tune →
Make music using road layouts. Interesting concept.
“From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are...”
– Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale, 1930
The Truth Wears Off →
Interesting article, though I feel like it goes too far with the unmarked hyperbole (especially at the beginning and end). Of course, that’s a pretty common pattern in popular scientific writing.
I’ve been wondering for a while why we don’t have more organized mass reproduction of experiments, not by academics but by professional experimenters, preferably with as little vested...
Race Is On to 'Fingerprint' Phones, PCs →
Websites don’t get sent directly personal information about you, usually, but they do get sent information about your OS, browser, location, installed fonts, etc., which taken together can comprise a unique (or at least fairly unique) “fingerprint” which can be used to correlate your visits. Especially worrisome when combined with sites which do have personally identifiable...
