Staccato Signals http://artins.org/ben Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:08:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Niagara Falls My mom and I went to Niagara falls in August 2008. http://artins.org/ben/niagara-falls “Don’t eat that!”, she stopped me, before bringing a chocolate-covered strawberry to my lips. http://artins.org/ben/dont-eat-that-she-stopped-me You’re being all flirty. — I've been all flirty for the last several hours! — Yes, but now it's working. http://artins.org/ben/youre-being-all-flirty Bug Bash: Signs you are close to shipping http://www.bugbash.net/comic/13.html Some of the world’s strangest fences http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/08/some-of-worlds-strangest-fences.html Colbert’s eight best atheist moments http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/cc_insider/2008/09/colberts-8-best.html Times Online: Japan’s professional seducers http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article4619389.ece Psychological Science: Mind-set matters: Exercise and the placebo effect Informing people they are getting more exercise than they thought they were leads them to lose weight http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118505496/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 The Boston Globe: If it seems wordish, use it http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/08/03/chillax/ Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories: The monetary density of things http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/density Harvey Cushing photo journal http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2008/08/harvey_cushing_photo_journal.php Harper’s Magazine: Contagious cancer http://harpers.org/archive/2008/04/0081988 GOOD: History’s greatest journeys, from Magellan to Kerouac http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/features/011/Wanderlust/ Rob Gruhl: How to buy a new car http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPor5b7JLLE Mind Hacks: Experienced drivers perceive the road differently http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/08/experienced_drivers_.html Hans Monderman : The traffic guru http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&essay_id=462572 ”Fashioning Technology’ embraces the fusion of craft and tech http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/08/fashioning-tech.html Lego tableaus recreate classic photos http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2008/08/gallery_legophotog Using photographs to enhance videos of a static scene http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/videoenhancement/videoEnhancement.htm “I’m a … designer.” http://www.monster-munch.com/images/SoWhatDoYouDO.jpg Not the user’s fault http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/these-things-i-believe/ New York Times: Don’t want to talk about it? Order a missed call Technology continues to make relationships of all kinds more dysfunctional. News at 11. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/us/02sly.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss New York Times: Don’t want to talk about it? Order a missed call Technology continues to make relationships of all kinds more dysfunctional. News at 11. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/us/02sly.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss The best men are (not always) already taken: female preference for single versus attached males depends on conception risk http://www.psy.unipd.it/~pbressan/papers/BressanStranieri2008.pdf Scientific American: The expert mind http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-expert-mind Stone Nudes Rock climbing in the nude http://www.stonenudes.com/ Why Nerds are Unpopular http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html YouTube: Scott Ritter: Show our troops real respect http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fTlVEiCEZo Medical News Today: Personal values deceive taste buds http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/115524.php New York Times: Radovan Karadzic under arrest http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/world/europe/22serb.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin University of Nottingham: The periodic table of videos Videos of different chemical elements http://periodicvideos.com/# Scientific American: How making decisions tires your brain http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=tough-choices-how-making Font conference Pencil telephone hourglass! http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1823766 New York Times: It’s botox for you, dear bridesmaids http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/fashion/24skin.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin Descent of the Phoenix lander http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/phoenix-descent.php The Planetary Society: More things to see in the amazing HiRISE image of Phoenix’ descent http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001547/ Eight reasons even the innocent shouldn’t talk to the police http://www.tuccille.com/blog/2008/07/eight-reasons-even-innocent-shouldnt.html Lies we tell kids http://www.paulgraham.com/lies.html Lies we tell kids http://www.paulgraham.com/lies.html Eight reasons even the innocent shouldn’t talk to the police http://www.tuccille.com/blog/2008/07/eight-reasons-even-innocent-shouldnt.html Descent of the Phoenix lander http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/phoenix-descent.php The Planetary Society: More things to see in the amazing HiRISE image of Phoenix’ descent http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001547/ New York Times: It’s botox for you, dear bridesmaids http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/fashion/24skin.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin Font conference Pencil telephone hourglass! http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1823766 Scientific American: How making decisions tires your brain http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=tough-choices-how-making University of Nottingham: The periodic table of videos Videos of different chemical elements http://periodicvideos.com/# New York Times: Radovan Karadzic under arrest http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/world/europe/22serb.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin Medical News Today: Personal values deceive taste buds http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/115524.php Why Nerds are Unpopular http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html YouTube: Scott Ritter: Show our troops real respect http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fTlVEiCEZo Stone Nudes Rock climbing in the nude http://www.stonenudes.com/ Scientific American: The expert mind http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-expert-mind The value of believing in free will: encouraging a belief in determinism increases cheating http://www.carlsonschool.umn.edu/assets/91974.pdf The best men are (not always) already taken: female preference for single versus attached males depends on conception risk http://www.psy.unipd.it/~pbressan/papers/BressanStranieri2008.pdf Assertiveness vs aggressiveness vs submissiveness http://changingminds.org/techniques/assertiveness/comparing_behaviors.htm Baarle-Hertog A town bizarrely divided between Belgium and the Netherlands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog The New Yorker : Turf war Lawns, abominations http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/07/21/080721crbo_books_kolbert?printable=true New York Times: Linda Greenhouse reflects on thirty years covering the Supreme Court http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/weekinreview/13linda.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin EXTERMINUS http://bustedwonder.com/exterminus/ New York TImes: Mystery on Fifth Avenue http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/garden/12puzzle.html?pagewanted=1&_r=4 Wall Street Journal: Get out of your own way http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121450609076407973.html?mod=blogs BBC Radio 4: Sir Clive Sinclair He created my first computer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2008/06/sir_clive_sinclair.shtml Thsrs: The Shorter Thesaurus http://www.ironicsans.com/thsrs/ BookMooch: exchange books and trade them http://bookmooch.com/ Telegraph: Teenager finds baby bat in her bra http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2266900/Teenager-finds-baby-bat-in-her-bra.html An intuitive explanation of Bayesian reasoning http://yudkowsky.net/bayes/bayes.html Where The Hell Is Matt? Wonderful, inspiring, awesome. http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/videos.shtml Extreme Ironing http://useloos.com/gallery/?itemid=572 Scientific American : So You Think You Can Dance? http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-neuroscience-of-dance Psychology Today: Impossible experiments http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200807/impossible-experiments BBC News: Woman stranded in cat rescue bid http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/essex/7485944.stm n00b World Reorder Estimates of size and shape of Azeroth http://www.spaaace.com/cope/?p=111 AlterNet: The 10 Most awesomely bad moments of the Bush presidency http://www.alternet.org/election08/89686/?page=entire 64squar.es: Online chess http://64squar.es/ Matt Webb: Fixing broken windows Thoughts on interaction design and cognitive psychology http://ia300130.us.archive.org/3/items/Reboot70HallAspeakerssaturday/9.Matt_Webb.mp4 Ron Mueck: Hyper-Realist sculptor http://paintalicious.org/2007/09/14/ron-mueck-hyper-realist-sculptor/ Slate Magazine : A genetic theory of homosexuality http://www.slate.com/id/2194232/?from=rss BBC: Dubai plans a moving skyscraper http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7472722.stm Vault holding all Lego sets Talk about long-faded memories. http://gizmodo.com/5018990/lego-secret-vault-contains-all-sets-in-history The Situationist: The Milgram experiment today http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/the-milgram-experiment-today/ How to create a cult http://forgetomori.com/2008/skepticism/how-to-create-a-cult-the-asch-conformity/ Diary of a Failed Startup http://diffle-history.blogspot.com/ Teach the Controversy: Intelligently designed t-shirts http://controversy.wearscience.com/ The Onion: World of World of Warcraft http://www.theonion.com/content/video/warcraft_sequel_lets_gamers_play?utm_source=embedded_video YouTube: Censorship bars as an expressive medium http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-TImFizyhfo New York Times : Supreme court to hear Guantánamo detainees’ case http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/washington/29cnd-gitmo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The 2008 Democratic primary in 8 minutes http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/06/15827.html J. 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Rowling’s Harvard commencement address http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html New Scientist: Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/dn13620-evolution-24-myths-and-misconceptions.html Telegraph : Wayward Alzheimer’s patients foiled by fake bus stop http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2069467/Wayward-Alzheimer's-patients-foiled-by-fake-bus-stop.html YouTube: The US civil war in four minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijApe4TXDrc myShape: Personal online clothing stores Ah, Y chromosome, my nemesis. https://www.myshape.com/ Six Degrees of Wikipedia Turns out the UK is the center of the wikiverse. http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/wiki/ Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine http://www.longnow.org/views/essays/articles/ArtFeynman.php YouTube: Video Games and Sex Daniel Floyd on video games as an artistic medium and the place of sex therein. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pEquofR2r0 Todo tattoo Permanent todo-list tattoos http://www.worldwidefred.com/todotattoo.htm Magic Ink: Information software and the graphical interface http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/ Wiio’s laws: How all human communication fails, except by accident http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/wiio.html Cory Doctorow: Our dangerous statistical ignorance http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/20/rare.events New York Times: Court says currency discriminates against the blind About freakin' time. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-Blind-Money.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin