My hand stamp from tonight’s They Might Be Giants concert at The Fillmore. They are getting more like a “normal” band as they age, and I do miss the days when it was just two Johns and a bunch of…
Category: sci/tech
It Belongs in a Museum!
Specifically, the NASA Ames Exploration Center. I’ve been living in the bay area for over a decade, and this was the first time I’d visited. What’s wrong with me? (In case you’re wondering, the button rotates the SOFIA telescope array…
Advantage: Amazon
Earlier this week, Amazon.com launched their MP3 Music Store. In the three days since then, I’ve bought two complete albums from them–that’s as many as I’ve ever bought from the iTunes Store, in more than three years. And I’m going…
Quote of the Day
“I can’t believe NBC is promoting Bionic Woman like this. What a terrible idea.” – snarky comment on Boing Boing: MIT student arrested for entering Boston airport with “fake bomb”
Yeah, That’s Fair
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“Mandelbrot Set” Music Video
“This next one is a song about math. [crowd cheers] Wow, this is probably the only place in the world where that would get applause.” – Jonathan Coulton at PAX (You can hear the complete song at Coulton’s web site.)
Dollars and Sense
“$5 an episode?” asks screenwriter Alex Epstein on his blog. That’s what NBC wanted to charge for their TV shows in the iTunes store, which Apple refused to do, preferring to stick with their current $2-per-episode price. (Not to say…
If Business Meetings Were Like Internet Comments
Thanks to Bryan for the link. As he says: “I love the attempts at spam that are stopped by captchas.”
Dyson’s Fear
From my friend Jeff: “The next word, but not the last word, in our little ongoing feud about climate change comes from Freeman Dyson: http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge219.html#dysonf“ I don’t agree with all his points, but he does set a good example by…
And speaking of food…
We saw Ratatouille tonight, and it did not disappoint. D didn’t enjoy it quite as much as I did, because–in her words–“It’s a rat!” Which I found amusing, because she and the protagonist rodent both enjoy heightened olfactory senses. She…