Oh despair, despair! My tenure here in New York is nearly over. I return to Cambridge on Thursday, after what has probably been the most enjoyable month of my life.
On the positive side of things, with all the added free time on my hands I’ll be able to recount some of the mad tales I’ve [...]
Let it be recorded:
This past weekend over lunch I placed a long bet with Daniel Egnor: within the next 6 months I ventured that Google will no longer be the coolest search engine on the block.
The wager: $2.
The arbitrator: Joshua Schachter.
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about dance music. I’ve been a DJ for 5 years now, and dancing for longer, but I’ve never taken a step back to ask exactly what it is about music that makes people want to bounce, shake, jiggle, or do whatever they do when a groovy tune comes on.
If [...]
It may sound like a scenario from Snow Crash, but it’s reality:China will be trying to overthrow the Microsoft hegemony. 18 companies have banded together in an alliance against windows, quoting Microsoft’s monopoly as their primary motivation. I guess if the US government can’t do it, maybe another country can.
This year’s installment of SIGGRAPH (the ACM Significant Interest Group on Graphics) is set to commence this weekend in San Antonio. During these few days every year one can witness digital tumbleweeds rolling through the halls of the Media Lab. Alas, this year too I will not be joining them.
While browsing around the site today, [...]
Often while flipping through a record bin I come across a record that is somewhat reminicent. Something about the cover art isn’t quite right, but it is nonetheless recognizable. In many cases, I’ve been duped by another record art ripoff. Either in homage to, or in hopes that someone will mistake it for the original, [...]
I’m returning to the homeland this weekend (Cambridge), my first return since adopting a NYC hipster lifestyle (I’m not sure if the yokels will be able to handle my fresh new flava) If you’re in town, you should stop by Ye Appliance of Science featuring a guest performance by the robotic mastermind, DJ I, [...]
You thought ferrets were the hipster pet.. not anymore! Move over squirmy rat, and make room for pet-sized cows! Thanks to the wonderful technology of selective breeding, these little bovines will be hitting local pet stores as fast as you can say “chew your cud.” In the words of their manufacturer, The American Sundog Miniature [...]
I’m still recovering from what may have been the most intensely social weekend of my life. And in New York, being social comes with serious side-effects:
bleeding money
circadian arrhythmia
distance misjudgements (blocks that mysteriously turn into miles)
In other words, I’m broke, tired and sore. If these symptoms persist, I think I’m going to have to discontinue my [...]
Researchers have analyzed an online thesaurus and found that relationships between words appear similar to human social networks. Like humans, words are connected by a small world network, each word being only a few semantic steps away from any other.