Great looking art show in London at the Tate. Too bad I missed it in Boston MFA!
"Just because I don’t care about someone else’s pain, so to speak, doesn’t mean I want to cause more of it. I enjoy living in this society. I understand that there are rules. I choose to follow those rules because I understand the benefits of this world, this house where I get to live, this relationship I get to have. That is different from people who follow the rules because they have to, they should, they want to be a good person. None of those apply to me. I want to live in a world where things function properly. If I create messes, my life will become messy."
New Zealand's mandatory helmet law doesn't seem to have had the effects people hoped.
"Yugoslavia" passports were valid through 12/31/2011 — nearly twenty years after the country ceased to exist!
"In its noble mission to bring technology access to every child, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is planning a bizarre distribution tactic: XO-3 tablets will be airdropped into remote areas for kids to just pick up and start using, without instructions or people to guide them." - I don't believe that NN actually said this. But it would be pretty crazy if he did.
Related to Avital's interests. I'm interested in the Johnnh's Hots version with the fishcake. Let's do that one veggie! It's apparently an undervalued Philly classic!
Seems like this is a service that will print and mail checks.
"Proofs of obscure provenance are sometimes overlooked at first, but usually not for long: A major paper like Royen’s would normally get submitted and published somewhere like the Annals of Statistics, experts said, and then everybody would hear about it. But Royen, not having a career to advance, chose to skip the slow and often demanding peer-review process typical of top journals. He opted instead for quick publication in the Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, a periodical based in Allahabad, India, that was largely unknown to experts and which, on its website, rather suspiciously listed Royen as an editor. (He had agreed to join the editorial board the year before.)"
Job applicants can easily collect a bunch of information that is otherwise difficult or illegal to get. Upload a text file or spreadsheet of your customers' emails and instantly get age, gender, and more.
Explanation of the link, two links ago, about Yahoo data visualization.
How it is possible that GooglePlus does not offer RSS feeds. Why isn't this is the bigger story?
"This is not a test, this is your Emergency Broadcast System. Announcing the commencement of THE PURGE sanctioned by the Nosleep Moderators.
Commencing at the siren, any and all stories will be legal for 72 continuous hours.
Moderator services will be unavailable until Thursday morning at 12:00 a.m., when the purge concludes."
Details on the "Deyoining Device" and how to use it.
A very very nice write-up about how to make ricotta. Keep at between 175-185°F. Add 1T+1t white vinegar per liter.
