August 2008
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Currently reading: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. I, by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
A noble death
Alexander Fiske-Harrison explores the aesthetic and ethical sides of bullfighting through the lens of El Cid vs. Borgoñés.
I went to a bullfight at Las Ventas in the summer of 2001 and, though audience reaction suggested that none of the six fights that day were particularly notable, found the spectacle thoroughly compelling. Which was, and is, somewhat troubling; a bullfight ends, by design,...
You know, living in squalor would be more pleasant if squalor weren’t so damned squalorous.
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Currently reading: A Fan’s Notes, by Frederick Exley
hotdogsladies: Without an index, a book is some typeset paper with a price on it.
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Currently reading: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, by Victor Hugo.
toldorknown: ”preceded by itself in quotes forms a complete tweet” preceded by itself in quotes forms a complete tweet.
Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma... →
Excellent parody of the dogma of evidence-based medicine:
One of the major weaknesses of observational data is the possibility of bias, including selection bias and reporting bias, which can be obviated largely by using randomised controlled trials. The relevance to parachute use is that individuals jumping from aircraft without the help of a parachute are likely to have a high prevalence of...
hotdogsladies: poll - n. - Scientific means for quantifying the opinions of people who don’t have mobile phones, Caller ID, or daytime commitments
Dammit. Even my procrastination is inefficient today.
textism: Pill-popping deaf man rushes to speak the words ‘Obama bin Biden’ into a microphone.
mogrify: McCain has seven houses, but no hotels? He must really suck at Monopoly.
cleversimon: One day I’m gonna learn my lesson about Facebooking my ex-girlfriends. And that lesson’s gonna be “don’t”.
superfantastic: My options seem to be substitute teaching or stripping. I don’t want to entirely give up on getting any respect at work. So stripping it is.
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“Human mathematics is a sort of dance around an unwritten formal text, which if...”
– David Ruelle
nick: Dear library: This airlock around the... →
hotdogsladies: NBC's stirring piano score makes... →
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Currently reading: Who Controls the Internet?, by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu
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Currently reading: Envisioning Information, by Edward R. Tufte
Went shopping today. Just the essentials: expensive hardcover books, overpriced soft drinks and imported meat.
gknauss: Bush: "Bullying and intimidation are not... →
1:30 AM: always a great time for the fire alarm to go off in your building. Makes those still awake feel smug, the bastards.
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On the third order helicity of magnetic fields on... →
R. Komendarczyk
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Oh, PowerPoint. Why do you insist on auto-converting vector images to raster?
gruber: My advice to politicians: (a) don't cheat... →
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An inverse boundary value problem for harmonic... →
Mark S. Joshi, William R.B. Lionheart
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The Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for complete... →
Matti Lassas, Michael Taylor and Gunther Uhlmann
Again? Don’t you people have any manners? I’m trying to read here and you keep getting in car accidents right outside my window.
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An Essay on the Application of mathematical... →
George Green
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Contact structures, sutured Floer homology and... →
Ko Honda, William H. Kazez, Gordana Matic
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Generating families and Legendrian contact... →
Dmitry Fuchs, Dan Rutherford
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“Now, we daily see what science is doing for us. This could not be unless it...”
– Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis
nevenmrgan: Dear god, could the App Store ever use... →