If you, like myself, are a member of that select group of internet riff-raff with their fingers on the pulse of the web’s juvenile yet creative dark corners (4chan, Fark, SomethingAwful), you’ll no doubt be familiar with this image.
Simply, for lack of a better word, classic.
My best friend Rupert Scammell, while browsing through some old [...]
Every year at Passover, Jews thank God for delivering them from slavery in Egypt. As part of the seder ceremony, songs are sung, one of which is called Dayenu. The song recounts all the miracles God performed for our wayward ancestors, one after another. The chorus, “Dayenu”, roughly translates as “it would have been enough.” [...]
“Our brains have Oprah neurons, Aniston neurons, Eiffel Tower neurons, and Saddam neurons that fire when we see pictures or hear the names of these people and places.” – Jason Kottke
While I’m all for public interest in science, especially neuroscience, its a pity when undecided questions are reported as solved.
The issue in question is one [...]
I was lucky last night to be able to attend a fantastic lecture panel on the Science of Morality at the 92stY as part of the World Science Festival. Philosophers Daniel Dennett and Patricia Churchland, and neuroscientists Antonio Damasio and Marc Hauser discussed the philosophy, psychology, and biology of a fundamental aspect of human nature. [...]
A few months ago, my buddy Chris and I were “shootin’ the shit,” as one is want to do, and he mentioned that he just found a jump-drive that he had accidentally sent through the washing machine. Unsurprisingly for those of us who know their way around electronic circuits, after drying the thing out, it [...]
One of the things I’ve been sorely missing since I switched from my old Sidekick II to my iPhone is the ability to hop on IRC and kill some time. On the Sidekick, I took advantage of the downloadable shell client and a remote server with a command-line IRC client installed, but on the iPhone, [...]
While its great living in the big city, it’s certainly nice to get out of town every now and then– away from all the hustle and bustle. As such, I’m spending the last full week of April relaxing back home in Denver. It would be great to see the Denver geek crowd again, so hit me [...]
I recently started posting things that would normally go on Geek Friendly as Asides to a new Tumblelog. Though I eventually plan to incorporate my tumblr posts into Geek Friendly, for the foreseeable future, you can find my short-form postings at geekfriendly.tumblr.com
Typographic dream-team Erik Spiekermann, Christian Schwartz, and Kris Sowersby unleash the stunningly-beautiful FF Meta Serif.
Songza, a new interactive music search engine from Aza Raskin and Humanized. Very sexy.