I haven’t written anything for a while, but here’s a quick list of things that I think are interesting:

• In case you didn’t know, I defended. I am now Dr. Kulkarni (well, technically, I’m ABD until the end of August, when I really graduate). I will now insist that everyone call me either Dr. Kulkarni. Or Dr. Doom. Your pick.
• If I lived in Kansas, I ( Read more... )

A little while ago (ok, a year and a half ago), I wrote about Pandora, a music jukebox that used information from the Music Genome Project to find music similar to music that you like.

I bring this up because today I found Jango, which seems to be really similar. I think it’s more like Last.fm, in that it sets up your radio station based on what ( Read more... )

I present to you the greatest first sentence in Wikipedia history: "Joshua Milton Blahyi, also known as General Butt Naked, is a Liberian warlord-turned-preacher." Followed later by this gem: "Blahyi is now the President of the End Time Train Evangelistic Ministries Inc., with Headquarters in Liberia ( Read more... )

I'm going to be at this conference in March. The astute reader, who bothers to click on links, will note that it's in Seattle (speaking of which, Ferris -- are you going to be around on the 5th?). The astute reader, who also understands that it takes a day just to drive out of Texas, will realize that to get to a conference in Seattle in any ( Read more... )

Apparently my blog has devolved into all-Wikipedia, all-the-time. But given my previous discussions about citations in Wikipedia, I thought this was noteworthy. The entry on waterboarding opens with a ruthlessly backed-up statement:

Waterboarding is a form of torture [...]

followed by ten, count 'em, ten, citations. These include cites from ( Read more... )

After struggling to fit half of an extra-large pizza into my fridge, I was trying to figure out why it (the fridge) was so full. Turns out my fridge is full of dairy products:

1. Milk (2%)
2. Part-skim mozzarella cheese (mostly finished)
3. Part-skim mozzarella cheese (can't run out of mozz)
4. Sliced cheddar cheese (Boar's Head sharp cheddar -- Best. Cheddar. ( Read more... )

Long ago thought it was, as well as politics in general:


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Peruse, if you will, the Wikipedia entry on the color "lime". It starts out as a nice overview of various colors which may be appropriately (or inappropriately, but commonly) called "lime." So far, so good. Very encyclopedic, quite informative (and brings up the question: what genius decided to call #00FF00 "lime," instead of "green"? Why not call ( Read more... )

Skimming through the NY Times this afternoon, I came upon this gem:

The people who are warning that New York is losing its dominance as a global financial center because of overregulation make up “a chorus of Cassandras,” James Surowiecki writes in the latest issue of The New Yorker. The article’s skeptical stance echoes Jenny Anderson’s Insider ( Read more... )

From the annoyingly right-wing, yet highly entertaining National Review Online:

It's time for conservatives to seize the Republican Party back from the moderate/establishment Republicans. It already appears Tuesday's election results have been lost on the Bush White House. This is our 1976 moment.

What was it Br'er Rabbit said? Oh yeah: "Oh, ( Read more... )