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Josh pointed out to me recently that Timecube progenitor Gene Ray has taken his theories to a new level of crazy, calling for the death of all educators not teaching Cubicism: Tis Time to kill any educator who does not teach Cubicism above cubelessness. To save humanity from extinction, like prior civilizations perished, youth mustContinue reading “Timecube awry”

I just received my copy of We Blog, of course thumbing through to make sure I didn’t sound like an idiot in my interview. The damage doesn’t seem to be irreparable. I won’t be able to read it in depth (thanks to a pile of 100 other books and papers that is currently poised inContinue reading “We blog dex”

Carson (aka fool) just posted the kraftwerk vs. whitney track to memepool, giving lots of love to my post (thank you Carson). So now I sit here in my office, listening to the sweet sound of hard drives churning. With over 1,000 downloads in the last day, I’ve pushed over 4 gigs of pure minimalContinue reading “Memepool lovin’”

Now in progress: the Enron liquidation auction. It appears that the online auction technology provider, Dovebid, is having some major difficulties keeping up with the demand. Their website is crippled, and live webcast unattainable. Ooooh I wish I was in Houston right now. This would be the perfect opportunity to pick up a few plasmasContinue reading “Bid farewell to Enron”

OMG! OMG! OMG! What happens when you mix two parts computer-futurism, one part german minimalism, and two parts dated 80’s pop? AAAAH! Whitney Houston vs. Kraftwerk: I wanna dance with some numbers…

Jason curiously observes Lance Fortnow’s Computational Complexity Web Log (admiring, well, it’s complexity). I had to do a triple-take upon reading this, since Lance was one of my first computer science professors at the University of Chicago. It’s been many years since I have heard the phrase “Computably Enumerable Language,” and let me tell you,Continue reading “Computational Professor Complexity”

Nick poses the age-old question: do cell phones really interfere with airline navigation equipment? I remember asking the same question a few years ago, and being told by a friend that cell phone bans aren’t really issued by the FAA, but rather the FCC. Cell phones moving at 500 mph with line of site toContinue reading “The truth about cells”

Number of times Cameron’s car has been towed for street cleaning this year: 5 Amount of money spent in the process (US$): 585 Pieces of trash Cameron counted yesterday on the street that was supposedly cleaned: 20 Number of times Cameron cursed the city of Cambridge for each piece of trash: 3

As a part of my New York withdrawal treatment, I have been regularly consuming media about the city to quell the pangs of nostalgia that is starting to set in. Among my favorites so far is Rem Koolhaas’ 1978 architectural chronicle Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. The book attempts to weave aContinue reading “A new Manhattanism?”

The US State Department and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have just granted the TransOrbital Corporation rights to start commercial development on our lunar counterpart. The launch is scheduled for June of 2003 from Kazakhstan. Something I’ve never understood about space: why does the US seem to have exclusive rights to everything that goesContinue reading “Some expensive advertising space”