I went to this lecture the other day. A professor of folklore talked about his collaboration with computer scientists to create tools for humanities research, and all the interesting new things he found. He was looking at Danish folklore: a researcher in the 19th century going around Denmark collecting ghost stories, fairy tales, and the like. In ( Read more... )

"Icon idea...hmmm...I know! I'll make it a blue circle! I can't believe no one else has thought of it."

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Google buckyball today! Cool.

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There aren't many places where you would find a debate on whether BP's dumping several tons of toxic chemicals into the atmosphere is a good thing or a bad thing.

Oh no! It's happened already! KTRU has gone to static!

Oops, no, that's "Dave and Richard" by experimental artists Barnes, Kamerman, and Stephenson from their album Three Duos. Never mind.

By the way...savektru.org

Rice is selling beloved indie student-run radio station KTRU, with no warning and input from students. Some disjointed thoughts:

• KTRU is indescribable. Indie music, is-it-really-music? music, an award-winning hip-hop show, student DJs, often amazing, often mind-blowing, often unlistenable, always full of soul and character. I particularly loved the ( Read more... )

Just got an email about this course offering at Rice:
Please spread the word (flyer attached) of our NEW course in MEMS ( Read more... )

2010.8.2 is finally here! I hope everyone has a good day defeating bad guys with their bionic arms. I hope this story will be told for a long time...


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( Bionic Commando Day is 2010.8.2! )

You know what's fun? Wikigroaning"The premise is quite simple. First, find a useful Wikipedia article that normal people might read. For example, the article called 'Knight.' Then, find a somehow similar article that is longer, but at the same time, useless to a very large fraction of the population. In this case, we'll go with 'Jedi Knight.' Open ( Read more... )