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Avatar was very impressive viscerally. Plot-wise it was fern gully meets the matrix. Not quite sure how I feel about that yet.
@ndufour yay numpy!
Great article by Charlie Stross on the battle between apple/google and the telcos to commoditize cell networks: http://www.antipope.org/charlie...
@ndufour also, I hope "regular expressions & you" is a cautionary tale akin to the specials on drug abuse we currently have
Looks like bone formation is more centrally regulated than I thought: http://www.physorg.com/news180... (via @kurzweilainews)
@ndufour language class should be protocols/coding/information theory and let programming replace basic math
@bostongeek eh, the shuttles they replaced the redline with are still nicer than the greenline trains
Fuck you broken redline. I had things I wanted to do tonight.
RT @vandykee: DON'T TRAVEL RIGHT NOW. Redline down. Shuttles bumper to bumper the whole length of mass ave. 6 blocks of people waiting..
I just wrote an incredibly dangerous looking cast: return (ProxyType) (object) entity; It's totally safe though. Damn static type systems.
RT @Richard_Dawkins: Rudiments of Language Discovered in Monkeys | Wired http://www.wired.com/wiredsc...
RT @timoreilly: "We continue to teach our kids French but don't teach them Ruby.." @fredwilson on CS in middle schools: http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
unsurprising, but neat to have evidence for: attacks in guerilla warfare follow a power law, says nature: http://www.nature.com/news... [paywall]
some positive obama administration news: ban of news covering return of war dead lifted: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories... (via @azaaza)
Complexity: A Guided Tour - http://www.amazon.com/dp...
Complexity: A Guided Tour
I wish I had a hat
RT @brainpicker: Who knew Boston had the cleanest tap water in the US? Great Transparency viz on water quality from @GOOD http://awesome.good.is/transpa...
Twitter Hacked, Defaced By “Iranian Cyber Army” - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
I Live in the 28th Happiest State - Where Do You Live? - http://reason.com/blog...
Hmm, http://analytics.ad.ly/ does an interesting analysis of followers. Apparently, 55% of mine are real, 67% are male
RT @FakeAPStylebook: Add the suffix "-punk" to increase a subject's pretensions of edginess: steampunk, splatterpunk, grammarpunk, etc.
@vandykee that parking pdf seems to be a dead link
Finally got around to uploading some of the pictures I've taken since arriving in boston, they can be viewed here: http://www.pointatstar.com/gallery...
@factperday yeah, I think I'm going to have to copy his hair style
Really? RT @pingswept: Bank robbery in Central Square! Climbed on Sharon's roof to escape! Suspect cornered on roof on Norfolk! #02138
Openness? Transparency? Not When Biden Gets To Hang With Entertainment Industry Lobbyists: Press Kicked Out - http://techdirt.com/article...
Trending topic #abcdefg is an entirely selfish meme at the moment: it is trending due to people asking why it's trending.
@rb2066 I was just thinking about checking out some Kierkegaard - I'll start with Fear and Trembling - thanks for the recommendation
Quite cool: Tracking vocab changes in Agatha Christie's novels and correlating with onset of dementia: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll...
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