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April 21, 2005
NYC tribe member Leba made an interactive film project, Weapons of Misdirection, and it's been nominated for a Webby award. She's asking everyone to vote in the People's Vote category, where she is currently running second. So you know what to do.Posted at 08:52 PM
April 19, 2005
Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, the amazing weekly BBC history program, is now available as a podcast. This is exactly the kind of show that benefits from mobile listening on demand. Now if only A Prairie Home Companion would make their shows mobile...Posted at 10:25 AM
April 17, 2005
Great voice, lots of talent, and now also a great video [iTunes]. Regina Spektor, another New York success story.Posted at 05:59 PM
In what will probably turn out to be the scholarly breakthrough of this young century, this week new technology made many of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri legible for the first time. We may finally have access to many of lost Greek classics. Imagine finding more of Euclid's or Archimedes' works on mathematics. Or Aristotle's lost dialogues...Posted at 12:52 PM
April 15, 2005
Sometimes, 700 words can feel rather limiting - such as when writing an article that surveys Swedish research into metabolic syndrome. Here is my attempt at producing something breezy yet informative within that constraint. Maybe next time I'll try writing a sonnet about it. (What rhymes with syndrome?)Posted at 12:48 PM
April 13, 2005
Berlin har alltid varit svårt att nå på ett billigt sätt från Stockholm. Men från 5 juni kan man flyga ditt med Germanwings för ungefär SEK 1000 retur. Från Arlanda. Jag bokar!Posted at 06:25 PM
April 10, 2005
Is unintentional irony, well, irony? Case in point: Astrology for Dummies. (Even better: According to Amazon, "Customers who bought this book also bought: The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need, Second Edition")Posted at 02:16 PM
April 06, 2005
Good News: The Mars rovers project gets another extension, since they just don't seem to stop rolling. Bad News: The two Voyager spacecraft may be shut down just as they near the edge of the Solar System, where the science gets interesting again. I'm blaming the Republicans, of course.Posted at 10:06 AM
George Kennan and Paul Nitze were lifelong friends, despite their opposing stances on the nuclear arms race. Why? As Nitze put it, "I don't disagree with George on anything except matters of substance."Posted at 04:27 AM
April 05, 2005
Maps [PDFs] of running routes around Stockholm and further afield in Sweden. I can recommend the circumambulation of Södermalm and Kungsholmen.Posted at 08:12 PM
Google Maps adds satellite images. Most impressive. Here is the escape route from New York to Canada. Here is a beach I can recommend in the Dominican Republic. Here is a meteorite crater in Canada. (BTW, you can click and drag the images)Posted at 07:37 PM
April 04, 2005
The four most important pages in physics in the past half century, or a half-baked loopy idea by people who frankly should know better? George Chapline believes black holes don't exist, because dark matter does. I don't know myself, but if his reasoning is as considered as the layout and editing that went into his paper, then I'm siding with the establishment.Posted at 07:48 PM
I can't decide whether the name of this company is intentionally hilarious, considering what it does, or else unintentionally hilarious.Posted at 03:04 PM
April 02, 2005
Images of ancient observatories around the world, taken from space. Sort of a nice feedback loop, if you will.Posted at 08:46 PM
In the days before the internet, QuarkXpress was perhaps my favorite program. Later, Adobe InDesign made their life hard. It doesn't help to retort with ads like these.Posted at 10:00 AM
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