Sometimes I listen to myself

An interesting presentation by Paul Adams on how online social networks are not built at all in the same way real life networks are. For a long time now I’ve kept, on the back of my mind, this idea that there must be a way for scientists to interact in a 21st century way rather than . . . → Read More: How social networks are not at all like real people networks

I saw “Public Enemies” and I must admit that the only thing I could think of during the whole movie was “Was this entire movie shot in digital?”

The answer? It appears it was.

I’m not sure why I found the visual look of the film so disturbing. It kept distracting me. I guess, at the beginning of . . . → Read More: Old vs. New

I flew Delta to go to Montreal for a short visit and some of their planes are equipped with the gogo in-flight internet service. (To be fair, I’m still flying with Delta right now.) I thought I’d give their in-flight internet service a try. I was expecting something ridiculously slow, but surprisingly, it’s more than usable. . . . → Read More: live from above the clouds

Hulu has this intel ad on repeat these days. Cracks me up every time. I know intel’s just been fined 1 billion dollars or something of the sort. I guess it makes them evil. Still, this is just funny.

[I had to resize the thing a bit. Somehow, the widescreen youtube clips don't jive with the standard . . . → Read More: Cracks me up every time

Articles like this make me want to become a journalist. A company (a canadian company too, makes me ashamed) reinvented the de-humidifier, packaged it with a catchy name (the “watermill”) and a magic bacteria killing UV light and sells it for an outrageously high price (1200$). I understand journalists can’t be expected to know everything about . . . → Read More:

The Titan Arum in Milwaukee is about to bloom. To allow everyone to share on the experience, there’s an HD feed of the flower available. If you can’t access it or if you’re not inclined to install VLC, then I suggest you go to the static image feed updated every 5 seconds. More details on the . . . → Read More: The biggest flower in the world… in HD!

I just saw a link to the better world club on the PhD comics Cecilia’s blog. Ont he BWC website, I learned that AAA (and by extension CAA) lobbies, using money from the dues, against sensible environment-friendly policies. They lobby for more road construction and have been, at times, known to oppose policies that would impose . . . → Read More: AAA (and CAA) lobby against the environment