March 2009
101 posts
My study plan →
Simpler than that →
WatchNós testamos essa história de “sacola de plástico oxibiodegradável”.
“A parte difícil de explicar é — de quem o Ronald McDonald foi padawan?”
– Diego Navarro, polímato, rei-mago e antropólogo teórico.
10 Reasons Why We Love Making Lists : NPR →
"Thank You, Vocoder" →
All 120 Crayon Names →
“WHEN FINDINGS ARE DEBATED ONLINE, AS WITH A YET TO BE RELEASED PAPER THAT CALLS...”
– Voodoo That Scientists Do § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
Travelocity →
WatchThe “Key” to a Photograph from Ansel Adams
“A DOVER EDITION DESIGNED FOR YEARS OF USE!
We have made every effort to make...”
– na contracapa do Thermodynamics de Fermi
“Todo escritor é um alcagüete; toda literatura é delação.”
– Frederic Beigbeder, 99 francs
“The most important question about any scientific study, that must be answered...”
– The Last Psychiatrist: To The Brain, God Is Just Another Guy
The partition inequality might matter →
Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab (1950-1951) →
“Costanza asked Sussman why MIT had switched away from Scheme for their...”
– Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python
“Twenty years to the day that two electrochemists ignited controversy by...”
– Neutron tracks revive hopes for cold fusion - New Scientist (freely summarized)
“When one considers the comparatively extensive system of congressional checks...”
– The Big Takeover : Rolling Stone
“It’s over — we’re officially, royally fucked. No empire can survive...”
– The Big Takeover : Rolling Stone
The Big Takeover : Rolling Stone →
The global economic crisis isn’t about money - it’s about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution
Richard Rorty and the efficient markets debate →
Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny →
The Bipolar Lisp Programmer →
Joseph Brodsky: Listening to Boredom
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Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine →
“All you have to do is insert a coin, and a piece of China will Slowly move forwards and fall into the bottom of the machine, breaking, and leaving you happy and relieved of anger.”
“I won’t be the last to make this universally horrifying observation: if...”
– The Last Psychiatrist: The Wrong Lessons Of Iraq
Phillip Toledano - Days with My Father →
Ok, eu me emocionei.
“$165 million, of course, is less than one-tenth of one percent of the total...”
– The Tipping Point? « The Baseline Scenario
Mercúrio dissolve o alumínio. Sério. Você pode... →
Canadian Science Minister won't confirm belief in... →
C Compiler Errors (For Real).
tjc@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) Edinburgh University Rainbow Programmers.
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These are some of the error messages produced by Apple’s MPW C compiler. These are all real. (If you must know I was bored one afternoon and decompiled the String resources for the compiler.) The compiler is 324k in size so these are just an excerpt I hope. I’m not sure where I stand on the...
Congress Debates Merits Of New Catchphrase | The... →