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August 28, 2005
NOVA's The Elegant Universe, the series about the theory of everything made by PBS, is now available for viewing online. All three hours of it. We love public broadcasting.Posted at 12:17 AM
August 21, 2005
Via hakank.blogg to an article in the Independent about a conference in Greece on mathematics and the narrative, where we learn that card-recognition tricks are based on de Bruijn sequences and that David Foster Wallace's book Everything and More has "86 really egregious errors." Can't wait for winter to start blogging maths again.Posted at 01:15 PM
August 20, 2005
One day, having read about the ice lens will save my life. Unless it's cloudy.Posted at 08:00 PM
August 19, 2005
Design guru and friend Montana has pimped her phone, and now she needs your vote.
Posted at 09:39 AM
August 14, 2005
For some reason, I cannot help but cheer on Australians doing well, especially when they write songs as catchy as Scar. JJJ and KCRW discovered her, and today's Sounds Eclectic has her playing live: Missy Higgins (with videos and songs), and also on iTunes.Posted at 01:33 PM
August 07, 2005
Bloggportalen.se är nu live, och den är snygg! Ser ut some en smartare Sourze. Det borde bli en magnet för dem som inte ännu läser bloggar, och vill börja, men inte vet hur.Posted at 10:50 PM
August 06, 2005
Those Freakonomics guys visit Google HQ, and blog it:'The best question of the day was, "What would you do with our data if we could give it to you?" We've thought about that quite a bit ever since; we'll keep you posted.'
Posted at 03:21 PM
Sony UK on the PlayStation 3: "The operating system has also yet to be clarified. The integrated Cell processor will be able to support a variety of operating systems (such as Linux or Apple's Tiger)."Um, I told you so? (Via Kottke)
Posted at 02:02 PM
August 04, 2005
Question: "When do sunset prayers take place during the summer solstice in Scandinavia, when the sun doesn't set?"The Wall Street Journal has a must-read article on Islam in Europe. (Link should work for non-subscribers)
(Answer from Islam Online)
Posted at 09:39 AM
What would you do? An article in this morning's Guardian keeps on returning to mind. I have often asked myself that question, and have (fortunately?) not yet had an opportunity to have it answered for me.Posted at 09:20 AM
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