Quote of the day!

Austin: I wish programming did not involve computers...
Alex: It would be nice.
Alex: Execute whiteboards!

SCO's Death as Shakespeare

SCO: Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York.
Novell: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty case from day to day to he last syllable of recorded time.
IBM: SCO's but a walking shadow.

Groklaw, chorus of Slashdot readers and industry analysts: Out, out brief candle!

It's almost funny

utah ghost towns -> bananas -> scons -> utah ghost towns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ghost_towns_in_Utah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosepa%2C_Utah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_production_in_Iceland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Television
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_applications_written_in_Python
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Christianity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Reef_National_Park
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruita%2C_Utah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ghost_towns_in_Utah

Don't execute your data

This promises to make me laugh, even if no one else does. Posting here...for the same reason that it exists. Talking to yourself via gtalk feels crazy sometimes, even though it's equally searchable.

Teriyaki to Euclid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teriyaki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_amberjack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaweed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wallace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Gibson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Renaissance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_geometry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid

Happy Pi Day

A New Game!

I just created a new game with wikipedia. I'm probably not the first one who tried this, but I wanted to share it...

1. You take two compleetly unrelated articles (eg:A gaussian beam, and the game flOw)
2. From the in-text links and the "See also" links, you try to get from one to the other.
3. It is permitted to use the "back" button of your browser, but only in really desperates cases.

You'll learn a lot of stuff playing this.

EDIT: For extra challenge, you can't use the time-period pages

Seed Magazine

Just found another great source for cutting edge science news with more of a cultural focus.

Seed Magazine

Their current article on the Blue Brain project is exciting. I really like their modeling approach, and it seems its paying off for them. They've successfully built a computational model of a rat's neocortical column based on molecural and electrical data collected using the patch clamp method.

And there's nothing saying what they've done so far won't scale up to a whole brain. This is the stuff of science fiction! Calls into question the definition of consciousness, etc....

The noises that my computer makes at me through my headphones are disturbing

that's all.

Who would have thought....

This article in the Wall Street Journal looks at why Finnish schools produce such well educated people (compared to the rest of the world, including the US).

Here's an excerpt:
"Visitors and teacher trainees can peek at how it's done from a viewing balcony perched over a classroom at the Norssi School in Jyväskylä, a city in central Finland. What they see is a relaxed, back-to-basics approach. The school, which is a model campus, has no sports teams, marching bands or prom."

Who would have thought...

UPDATED: link fixed

Engaged!

For those who haven't heard yet, Karen and I are now engaged! We are planning on setting a date in August it looks like.