Last night, eric received an invitation to his 10 year high school reunion. I am anticipating a similar event from my high school. We had a discussion about whether we’d want to go, pretty up in the air. Beyond the curiousity factor, I’m not really sure why I would want to go. Has anyone here been to an event like this, and was it fun?
Hey guys, all of a sudden i want to open a fancy dress store. I don’t know how, and i don’t know when. Could any of you please point me to some info on opening a fancy dress store?
i can’t say that i’ve ever watched an hour long youtube video before, but this presentation by an anthropology professor about youtube and it’s implications for our society, communication, etc., was fascinating / humorous / touching (yup). mainly because he uses tons of great youtube moments to emphasize his points. yes, i really am recommending that you watch a youtube video about youtube.
“StreetWars is a 3 week long, 24/7, watergun assassination tournament.”
I want to do this wicked badly!!! this video is pretty epic, here’s part two.
so did any of you spend a decent amount of last night playing this game? ’cause i did. fucking awesome so far. as usual, they made the storyline, characters and most importantly the city way more detailed and fascinating. We spent some time running missions, then resorted to the ol’ kill-lotsa-cops fun and games. SO PSYCHED THIS GAME IS OUT.
and you thought his brother was the only one who rocks . . .
Google Maps Street View now covers Providence and Boston.
commence snooping into your neighbors windows!
Researchers at Harvard came up with an ingenious genetic method to express fluorescent proteins in a rainbow of colors to label different neurons in mice brains. You can check out the paper below to read the details of the method, or just look at the amazing pictures at Wired. Best microscopy i’ve ever seen.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7166/full/nature06293.html
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2007/10/gallery_fluorescentneurons
Cookie Monster Searches Deep Within Himself and Asks: Is Me Really Monster?
(from McSweeney’s)
So i walk out of my building yesterday and what do I see? Just forty idiots standing on the street corner yelling, with signs and a huge fucking banner that reads HONK TO END THE WAR IN IRAQ. Of course, tons of headache- inducing idiots in cars wailing on their horns, stuck in bumper to bumper traffic on their commute home. That must be super liberating, right? To just lay on the horn, implying “take that Mr. Bush!! I can honk really loud and it makes me feel like i’m taking a STAND against the war! Yea!!!!”
I would like to point out that honking has never stopped a war. However, it has succeeded in pissing me off. I would also like to point out the irony of a bunch of people sitting, one person per car, in their SUVs, “protesting” a war based around securing the very oil that powers their huge automobiles.
rant over.
“Eight artists snuck into the depths of Providence Place mall and built a secret studio apartment in which they stayed, on and off, for nearly four years until mall security finally caught their leader last week.”
Article in the Providence Journal:
http://www.projo.com/news/content/Mall_Dwellers_10-02-07_1F7B9KA.34baf91.html
Their website, complete with video of the space: http://www.trummerkind.com/mall/Living_in_the_Mall.html (fast forward past the crummy intro)
“The game of checkers has roughly 500 billion billion possible positions (5 x 1020). The task of solving the game, determining the final result in a game with no mistakes made by either player, is daunting. Since 1989, almost continuously, dozens of computers have been working on solving checkers, applying state-of-the-art artificial intelligence techniques to the proving process. This paper announces that checkers is now solved: Perfect play by both sides leads to a draw. This is the most challenging popular game to be solved to date, roughly one million times as complex as Connect Four. Artificial intelligence technology has been used to generate strong heuristic-based game-playing programs, such as Deep Blue for chess. Solving a game takes this to the next level by replacing the heuristics with perfection.”
This is the abstract of a paper that came out today in Science. You can read the full article here. although the proof is way over my head, the background is SUPER interesting, especially the mention of the greatest checkers player ever, Marion Tinsley.
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