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Tweets
- NYT: "I would advise our readers to be good Bayesian thinkers..." As if we could be otherwise...? http://t.co/rLBUh1ib 1 hr ago
- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 18 hrs ago
- Were I still a student, or pre-tenure, I would so be at the Summer Research Institute for the Science of STS: http://t.co/Vhc2cCi2 18 hrs ago
- Can't be real: http://t.co/98gVZNvA 1 day ago
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 1 day ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 1 day ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 3 days ago
- More updates...
Archives
Monthly Archives: September 2003
Blogging elsewhere
Been having fun commenting on the new bloggers’ posts over on the UB Informatics blogserver. For example: - on communication professionals and information professionals; - on early adopters and innovative cities; - and on the Jesuits, French songs, and the early information revolution. This leads me to the conclusion that I need to give my [...]
Unhappy bots
Popular Science | The Man Who Mistook His Girlfriend for a Robot. “Look for the guy carrying the head.” David Hansen and others are making robots look a lot more human, providing them believable facial expressions. I’m not really sure that this is necessarily a leap beyond good CG to the same effect, but it [...]
NY Weekend
Did the unheard of for an assistant professor and took a 3-day weekend (heck, taking a weekend is rare), to accompany Jamie to Manhattan where she had some meetings. I hadn’t had a chance to walk around New York in a very long time–long enough that the proportion of smokers on the street had been [...]
What Santorum had in mind?
When Rick Santorum suggested gay marriage would lead to the legalization of bigamy, polygamy, incest, and adultery, he was roundly criticized. But what about marrying ex-mother-inlaws? I am happy to report that Scottish jurists have addressed this eventuality; Her ex-husband proposed last year to her mother but the wedding in March at the register office [...]
Creationist science fair
Creation Education: Creation Science Fair 2001 2nd Place: “Women Were Designed For Homemaking” Jonathan Goode (grade 7) applied findings from many fields of science to support his conclusion that God designed women for homemaking: physics shows that women have a lower center of gravity than men, making them more suited to carrying groceries and laundry [...]
Practical superheroics
Angle Grinder Man sports a cape and tights and travels around London releasing clamped cars for free. Wow, that’s tuning in to one’s calling. What other microsuperheroes do we need? I’ll have to think of this a bit. Off the top of my head: Pooper scooper man, the Florinator, and Helping-with-bags-man.
Coolest. Hotel. Ever.