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Some Guy Named Beckham

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:24:10 -0400

Some Guy Named Beckham

If I was a commuter » Handpresso Auto

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:52:29 -0400

If I was a commuter » Handpresso Auto

Dub-Box Camper

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:49:50 -0400

Dub-Box Camper

…and here’s the cover! « hot water music

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:33:24 -0400

…and here’s the cover! « hot water music

Frank Kunert - Tennis Halfpipe

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:39:15 -0400

Frank Kunert - Tennis Halfpipe

"Not to worry, Arsenal fans. Your team may be out of contention for the Title, the FA Cup, and the..."

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:48:47 -0500

“Not to worry, Arsenal fans. Your team may be out of contention for the Title, the FA Cup, and the Champions League, but they are still in pole position for the Big One. The Battle For 4th. Mark my words, this weekend’s clash with Newcastle will be the stuff of legend. 22 players. No discernible defending. RvP. Demba Ba. There will be goals.”

- GFOP Men in Blazers - March 7, 2012 - Watch Football. Eat Wafers. Wear Blazers.

Jer Thorpe @ TEDxVancouver: Data in a human context

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:29:10 -0500

Jer Thorpe @ TEDxVancouver: Data in a human context

Good-bye Mr. Ralph McQuarrie

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:31:55 -0500

Good-bye Mr. Ralph McQuarrie

‘All Rise’ for MLS on NBC (HT WVHooligan.com)

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:38:00 -0500

‘All Rise’ for MLS on NBC (HT WVHooligan.com)

"I do know that the life of the mind is lived one mind at a time: one solitary, skeptical, resistant..."

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:52:27 -0500

“I do know that the life of the mind is lived one mind at a time: one solitary, skeptical, resistant mind at a time. The best place to cultivate it is not within an educational system whose real purpose is to reproduce the class system.”

- The Disadvantages of an Elite Education by William Deresiewicz

"Let’s sync our servers. My current server time is 13:38:29"

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:13:13 -0500

“Let’s sync our servers. My current server time is 13:38:29”

- Some of us can relate

"I haven’t seen the logical argument spelled out anywhere. This is probably my own fault, and I..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:39:00 -0500

“

I haven’t seen the logical argument spelled out anywhere. This is probably my own fault, and I should probably have made more of an effort, but the literature seems to focus very much on enormous improbabilities within evolution, which I don’t think tells us very much on its own. I’m aware that attempts have been made to solve this, and Dembski in particular has done some work on the logic of Intelligent Design. But I haven’t, so far, seen anything with concrete premises advanced, even once we’ve added in things like “specified” complexity.

But what I think is more difficult is that it doesn’t seem to make sense why God would bother fine tuning the universe to give parameters “necessary” for life if he had to carry on intervening to create life. Or, put another way, any parameters would be life-permitting if you had an omnipotent God prone to tinkering with molecules to aid abiogenesis.

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- Calum Miller, Why I don’t advocate Intelligent Design

Not Your Basic Cable (in Kansas City)

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:36:00 -0500

Not Your Basic Cable (in Kansas City):

futurejournalismproject:

In 2010 Google announced that it would lay down high-speed network infrastructure for one lucky American city. After more than 1,100 municipalities applied for Google Fiber, Kansas City was named the winner.

And today Google starts laying some cable.

For lucky Kansas City residents, they’ll soon have high-speed broadband that downloads 100 times faster than “normal” Internet access and uploads 1,000 times faster than average.

Via ReadWriteWeb:

Kansas City won the Google Fiber competition because it met all of Google’s various requirements. “Our goal was to find a location where we could build efficiently, make an impact on the community, and develop working partnerships with the local government, utility and community organizations,” its FAQ says. “We believe we’ve found this in both Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri.”

[Google manager Kevin] Lo says the network will use “thousands of miles” of cable. The backbone of the network will be built first, and then Google Fiber will be connected to homes around Kansas City.

For the envious rest of us there is the possibility of longer term benefits. By demonstrating that these speeds are attainable, the public (and market) might beat traditional providers like Verizon, Comcast, Cox and Optimum with an encouragement stick to reinvest in their infrastructure to attain similar if not greater speeds.

Maybe. It wasn’t too long ago that “[t]he biggest U.S. Internet service providers urged regulators to adopt a conservative definition of “broadband,” arguing for minimum speeds that were substantially below many other nations,” according to Reuters.

The United States, after all, barely cracks the global top 30 in terms of Internet speed.

For Google, there’s long-range benefits as well. The faster the Internet goes, the better Google apps run. The better Google apps run, the more money they make. Call it enlightened self interest with potential benefits for all of us.

The only thing missing was a Thierry Henry goal

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:11:05 -0500

The only thing missing was a Thierry Henry goal

100% Oregon

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:22:22 -0500

100% Oregon

TIME Magazine Cover: King Leo - Feb. 6, 2012 - Lionel Messi

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:54:42 -0500

TIME Magazine Cover: King Leo - Feb. 6, 2012 - Lionel Messi

Miami

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:51:15 -0500

Miami

Snow soccer anyone?

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:18:12 -0500

Snow soccer anyone?

"In the entire discussion, I’ve seen no discussion of credible evidence of this economic harm...."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:23:13 -0500

“

In the entire discussion, I’ve seen no discussion of credible evidence of this economic harm. There’s no question in my mind that piracy exists, that people around the world are enjoying creative content without paying for it, and even that some criminals are profiting by redistributing it. But is there actual economic harm?

In my experience at O’Reilly, the losses due to piracy are far outweighed by the benefits of the free flow of information, which makes the world richer, and develops new markets for legitimate content.

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- Tim O’Reilly - Before Solving a Problem, Make Sure You’ve Got the Right…

Return of the King

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:55:00 -0500

Return of the King