For those who's mostly migrated over to facebook of late, it's fair to say that the privacy settings are fairly contorted. The NY Times has created a helpful infographic to show which settings can be found where.

Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options

Even with the help of this graphic, I have to admit to some difficulty in locating ( Read more... )

This is the usual "mostly friends only" notice, but post-dated so it'll stay prominent. If you're looking for the new stuff, it'll always be below this.

( See the man behind the curtain?: Random stuff )

From the wide world of weird: people searching for images of Michelle Obama have recently been getting an altered, supposedly racist picture among the top hits. Apparently, Google hasn't removed the image, arguing that to do so would involve artificially tweaking their algorithm to exclude certain pages. Essentially, they don't want to limit the ( Read more... )

This amuses me far more than it should:
http://www.catsforgold.com/

...Ah, if only I could make figures that looked half so good.

Because now and then, we all need a laugh. As told to me today:

So Feynman and Heisenberg decided to take a road trip together, with Feynman driving and Heisenberg in charge of the map. Every so often Feynman checks with Heisenberg for directions
"Where are we?"
"Forty three miles out of Tuscon. Take a left at the next exit."
This sort of thing ( Read more... )

I came home yesterday to find a message on my machine, asking me to call back and confirm the details of my windshield replacement ( Read more... )

I don't often post about science here (though honestly, I don't know why), but the combination of two recent papers has me flabbergasted enough to make a conscious exception to that rule:

Imagining the connectivity of a single molecule (original article)- for all the astonishingly creative ways that we have to determine molecular structure, the ( Read more... )

No matter how long I live in Michigan, I'll never get used to the fact that it's ok to cheer for the Redwings. And yet here I am doing just that ( Read more... )

This is too priceless not to share- following Wednesday's debate, McCain's favorite Joe the Plumber got some added attention:

Thomas Joseph, the business manager of Local 50 of the United Association of Plumbers, Steamfitters and Service Mechanics, based in Toledo, said Thursday that Mr. Wurzelbacher had never held a plumber’s license, which is ( Read more... )

I'm currently making a batch of fudge, with the town hall presidential debate in the background ( Read more... )