December 2007
28 posts
And the Sydvishy goes to … Love Actually. I watched it tonight (as I do around Christmas every year), and I was reminded how much I love it. I give it the Sydvish Award for number one chick flick ever. (Part of living up to the title is that it is tolerable to men). Anyway, just wanted to put that out there! — sydvish
Ron Paul appeared on Meet the Press this morning. You can see the video here. The quality is good and NBC only makes you watch one commercial before it begins.
“The third and most mysterious piece of nonabsoluteness of all lies in the...”
– Bistromathematics. - from Mills
NYT - A Year Later, the Same Scene: Long Lines for the Elusive Wii Microsoft and Sony must hate this.
WikiScanner
WikiScanner is an implementation of a simple concept: it relates Wikipedia’s database of anonymous edits to the organizations responsible for those edits. The two data sets are related by IP address. Naturally, I searched for changes originating from Home Depot IP addresses and quite a few results were returned. Many of these changes were expectedly banal such as The Home Depot Sucks and You Can...
The Republican Debate, In Data Form →
Mills links to excellent analysis from NYT.
Turning surgery inside out The Economist discusses natural orifice surgery.
Obituary Like No Other →
Thanks to Mills we can all read an unbelievable obituary. For those in the habit of reading obituaries this must be a rare treat.
WatchTED - Ron Eglash: African fractals, in buildings and braids
Placenta Pizza? →
sydvish has inspired me to launch placentaster.com. Once it gains popularity I plan to allow other organs to join.
Nokia and Universal Music Group
This is more news on Universal’s subscription music plans. At least one journalist thinks this is a good move. This article also provides more evidence of tech bubble 2.0; it mentions Nokia’s goal is to be more like Google.
