Standing on the shoulders of nerds


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If you have been missing the new HBO series 'Flight of the Conchords', which is about the trials and tribulations of New Zealand's fourth most popular digi-folk comedy duo attempting to make it in NYC, here is your chance to see the latest episode for free.  It's quite amusing. 

So, I finally got a cellphone.  The fact that it's supplied by work was probably the impetus I've been needing.  Anyway, I'm now in a kind of dilemma.  It's a big brick of a blackberry, and I'm not sure how to carry it around.  Do I ( Read more... )

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All these records are for sale. Lots of good dancefloor techno, tech-house, deep/dub house etc from c.1999-2004 or so.

Artists like Matthew Jonson, Villalobos, Håkan Lidbo, Tejada, Pantytec, Someone Else, etc.

Labels like Playhouse, Perlon, Itiswhatitis, Foundsound, Spectral, Forcetracks etc.

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This article in Nature Neuroscience is fascinating.  The authors show a connection between being tone deaf and having poor spatial processing skills:

"Here we show that amusia [tone deafness] is strongly related to a deficit in spatial processing in adults. Compared to two matched control groups (musicians and non-musicians), participants in the ( Read more... )

100 prisoners are led one by one into a room and have a hat placed on their head.  The hat is randomly chosen from a pile of three different colors.  They cannot see their own hats.  They then stand in a long line, all facing in the same direction so that each can see the color of the hats in front of them, but not behind (i.e. at the front of the ( Read more... )

The other day I got a letter from my local (UAW4121) urging me to write to my representatives regarding governmental inaction over rising gas prices.  They supplied a form letter with suggestions for what senators and congresspersons should be pushing legistlatively.  Not one of those suggestions included any mention of higher fuel efficiency ( Read more... )

There’s the guys just standing about, at 1am. Just… standing… about. Who are these people that appear in a succession of fleeting 50mph moments, before the momentum closes our door to their lives? Who are they and what are their stories?

That was a fun, early, long lunch break.  CD and I just took a couple of kayaks out from Aqua Verde and circumnavigated Lake Union.  My farmer's tan is going to be out in full force.