The right attitude

2010-07-30 13:02 (0 comments)

Interview with Craig Venter of Celera, the decoders of the human genome. (via Pharyngula)

Inequality

2010-07-17 12:19 (0 comments)

Returning to the '29 crisis: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-wealth-inequality-2010-7

Junk calls -- a possible (and funny!) solution

2010-07-10 14:17 (0 comments)

http://revk.www.me.uk/2010/07/what-moron.html

Vacation

2010-07-01 11:20 (1 comments)

Calvin & Hobbes: vacation

Finally! Yoohoo!

Jubiliary steganography

2010-06-16 06:51 (0 comments)

The clever people at APOD celebrate today venerable's site 15th anniversary with a wimsical fascinating recursive pseudo-steganography stunt. They recreated by imagery pixelisation (creation of an image from tiny thumbnails of other images) a faked Vermeer from their 5th anniversary. Nice little intellectual public orgasm there ;-)

Democratisation of the DSLR

2010-05-29 11:01 (0 comments)

Hey, that's crazy! Local stores (sorry, no link, I don't do unpaid publicity) are advertising DSLR's (Sony alpha 230) sold for under 300$! With lens! Interesting times are a-coming.

Phone ads

2010-05-18 06:53 (0 comments)

Brilliant Onion: "Users won't even remember a time when they didn't have a second voice whispered in their ear".

Lucidity

2010-05-16 12:47 (0 comments)

Here's me having one of my oh! so rare moments of pride for living on the same planet and at the same time with individuals that, through their rationality, creativity, empathy and truthfulness, help me feel myself worth more. Theramintrees' brilliant arguments for reason.

Gigapan of Dubai

2010-05-11 00:49 (0 comments)

We can't stop the progress. Here comes another brilliant and passionate way of wasting time and money: gigapans.

Data-Driven Life

2010-05-02 22:15 (0 comments)

We live a new kind of life, with data to prove it. I guess this thorough and very well written up (if long) article in The New York Times underlines the case for a major evolutionary event in the human species' life.