Sunshine juxtaposition
First, Nao pointed to a BBC News article on how the Stradivarius got its sound; specifically: Scientists from Columbia and...
Antecedent
I mentioned the other day that I learned at an early age that spiders are our friends. It later occurred...
Fuzzy logic
Ben N. points to the Teddy Borg. Three bored MIT students took apart a teddy bear (including turning it inside...
A thousand ants
Got home just a couple minutes before the editorial meeting, only to discover a line of ants in my bathroom....
Sunday
I was going to post a note to the effect that the rest of Sunday was lovely too, not just...
One Ring Circus
One Ring Circus shows photos of a (mostly female) fan group who won the costume contest at this year's BayCon;...
Richard Curtis does it again
I've been hearing pretty good things about Love Actually, so when Mary Anne suggested it for this afternoon (as part...
Books and films
These items aren't related, but they almost appear to be: nj points to The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-Earth for Dummies....
Item item
A few assorted items: Steve Jobs interview in Rolling Stone, talking about the iTunes Music Store, music in general, Apple,...
Huge Internet Explorer security bug
Kent Brewster points out a recently discovered security bug in Internet Explorer (worse on Windows than on Mac, but still...
Good stuff day
Assorted good stuff today (by which I mean Friday, though posted a little too late for "today" to be officially...
Planetary intelligences and surprise twist endings
Just once, I'd like to see a story in which there's a planet-wide network of interlinked computational elements and/or life...