August 2009
53 posts
al3x's Rules for Computing Happiness →
A list.
Some health care numbers
mrgan:
Every health care debate swings between emotional and number-based arguments. On the emotional front, those in favor of universal, government-backed health care empathize with the uninsured, while the free-market proponents warn about the nanny state and ask why they should be expected to pay for others’ bills.
That game can be played forever, and neither side is likely to convert the...
WatchShe Wants Animals - Nine Inch Nails and Ace of Base
via technoweenie
“There’s something deeply wrong with a system that takes bottled water from Fiji...”
– Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak talking H2O. (via edkohler:s4xton)
They’re locking up the Axe body spray behind the... →
stuffaboutminneapolis: Stay classy Southside.
Watchs4xton:
stuffaboutminneapolis:
Bus Stop Outside Electric Fetus on 4th and Franklin Explodes.
Just trying to catch a bus, and a tornado comes by to ruin your day. (This is from the storm the other day)
www.electricfetus.com
John Scalzi's Guide to the Most Epic FAILs in Star... →
enemyswim:
“I’ll come right out and say it: Star Wars has a badly-designed universe; so poorly-designed, in fact, that one can say that a significant goal of all those Star Wars novels is to rationalize and mitigate the bad design choices of the movies. Need examples? Here’s ten…”
Watchenemyswim:
via boingboing:
This is a short animation that takes the viewer through a progressive description of all (and all possible) dimensions, up to and including the 10th. It is an elegant introduction to the fundamentals of string theory and a mind-blowing toe-dip into the pool of the metaphysical.
“This is a bullshit movement. Oh, sure, there’s real emotions and real people,...”
– The Rude Pundit (via cleversimon:marco)
Meet the generations →
1844-53: The Prometheans 1854-63: The Plutonians 1864-73: The Anarcho-Symbolists 1874-83: The Psychonauts 1884-93: The Lost Generation The New Kids 1894-1903: The Lost Generation The Hardboiled Generation 1904-13: The Greatest Generation The Partisans 1914-23: The Greatest Generation The New Gods 1924-33: The Silent Generation The Postmoderns 1934-43: The Silent Generation The Anti-Anti-Utopians...
'Society is likely to collapse' →
notesfromminneapolis:
From a Financial Times interview with Jared Diamond,
“There is a parallel based on the same fundamental mechanisms of the economic collapse that we’re seeing now and the collapse of past civilisations such as the Maya,” he continues. “The message is that when you have a large society that consumes lots of resources, that society is likely to collapse once it hits its...
“The free parking that Americans love isn’t really ‘free’ at all. A recent...”
– Free Parking Isn’t Free
WatchGood Neighbors
1944 Film on the making of the Minneapolis Star-Journal.
The explanation of wire photo is amazing.
“I took one thing away from this. Talking about healthcare reform with these...”
– Dan, after braving a healthcare town-hall meeting and being overwhelmed by the crazy Republican whackjobs who try to “win” arguments by screaming their illogical, incorrect points more loudly than the people who try to engage in civilized, educated discussion.
This is a pretty good summary of...
Apollo Mission Software →
science:
Maybe you’re all tired of articles about the moon landing, but I found this description of the sheer dumb luck involved in the moon lander’s computer making a successful descent fascinating:
Allan’s descent program needed a routine to accurately estimate the new thrust level, which could be accomplished by reading the “delta-V” (change in velocity) measured by the LM’s accelerometers....
Anatomy of a feature →
The process of adding a simple feature to an application.
WatchSays - Garden Girls
