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Daft old world, that has such people in it.
It seems i'll be doing a little work on a large research project that looks at religion - and tries to explain it ( Read more... ) -
Caramba!
This weekend minus10 is coming over for a visit, so that should be fun.
I applied for a phd at this cool new thing they're starting at Southampton and i got a really nice mail back from one of the people that run it. These guys have been doing Agent Based Modeling for a while and i had to restrain myself form trying to include the dancing banana ( Read more... ) -
what were they thinking
I was looking up agentcities online - it was this series of 2day meetings where participants brainstormed about the use of (software-)agents. I got the page, but it turns out the domain is no longer active and is now for sale ( Read more... ) -
band names
band of horses
flock of seagulls
fleet of foxes
I remember getting my mail attachments in ASCII, separated by these weird text strings. And now the very same are reused (i don't remember them literally) as band names :-) -
Side project
So two weeks ago i went to an event where public servants, hackers, developers and journalists talked about how to make all that public data (public in the sense it belongs to us all *and* in the sense it is out there) available to the public. And by available to the public i mean provide an interface so that the data becomes useful to the public ( Read more... ) -
'nuff said
problem ( Read more... ) -
Fish geekery
Darwin's dreampond (Darwins hofvijver) is an excellent book. Its about exploration. About little fish called of cichlids in a gulf of Lake Victoria, and about life in Tanzania, about evolution and the way life takes its course. The drama from the english title is caused by one man with a bucket. The Nile perch from the bucket proceed to multiply ( Read more... ) -
www
Whats so really cool about the internet is there is no way to go overboard. Anything you do, but may find too pretentious or weird to share with the world, someone has done something much more weird and pretentious.
Via the always informative b3ta: the christmas sweater project. I liked this one too (warning cervicular imagery, not for the faint ( Read more... ) -
From the pink petri dish
The New Scientist has a section where readers answer questions from readers called 'Last word'. One of the questions was - why do girls like pink? One of the answerers was from India and she had only experienced this pink thing in the West. In India there is no specific girly-color. Apparently there is some research indicating that women like ( Read more... ) -
This flu thing
A well-respected, Dutch current events show that is not 'serious journalism' per se but does enjoy huge popularity with well-informed newspaper readers invited a virus expert. Before they asked him what his institution is doing (ie getting ready for the pandemic) they showed a clip from OutbreakAaarrrgh. Maybe its a good movie but its still a movie ( Read more... )
