Productivity Enhancer of the Week
Test your siege engine skills! Educational and addictive.
Professor Heebie J. McJeebie Gives Good Rant
Good music vs evil music.
Profiling
Those impressive profilers you see on TV and the movies? In reality, they're not quite as effective as they're portrayed—not by a long shot.
Program notes for If There Were No Sun, You Would Have This Song
Strange collection, but that's the point. How do you categorize that which is beyond category? Of course, Wittgenstein said, " Whereof one cannot speak, thereon one must remain silent." I say, "Eff off, Ludwig."
Project Pandora
"Can you help me find more music I'll like?"
Pronouns Aid Brain Function
Self would have never guessed that.
Proof I'm Not Hip
Not that any more is necessary. I hadn't heard any of Sasha Frere Jones' "Best of 2005" list until it reached the forty-somethings. Kids today, sheesh.
Props to Carl Zimmer
I enjoy reading science writer Carl Zimmer and browse his website The Loom frequently. The post I link to below is a great example why.
Protect Whose Property?
Ed Quillen asks a big question that Congress ought to be asking in the rush to protect property rights.
Protest Friday
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