Leonardo's Notebooks: "Vitruvius, the architect, says in his work on architecture that the measurements of the human body are distributed by Nature as follows: that is that 4 fingers make 1 palm and 4 palms make 1 foot, 6 palms make 1 cubit; 4 cubits make a man's height. And 4 cubits make one pace and 24 palms make a man; and these measures he used in his building. If you open your legs so much as to decrease your height 1/14 and spread and raise your arms till your middle fingers touch the level of the top of your head you must know that the centre of the outspread limbs will be in the navel and the space between the legs will be an equilateral triangle."
Now that's someone who knows how to observe. Thanks for changing the direction of the western world Leonardo!
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Sunday, August 08, 2010
Op-Ed Columnist - Putting Our Brains on Hold - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Columnist - Putting Our Brains on Hold - NYTimes.com
This guy is right, our nation is falling apart right before our eyes. Why don't we care anymore?
This guy is right, our nation is falling apart right before our eyes. Why don't we care anymore?
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Review: Icon CJ3B more than the sum of its impressive parts — Autoblog
Review: Icon CJ3B more than the sum of its impressive parts — Autoblog
There is nothing like a thing built with a true passion for quality. It's great when someone cares about the details.
There is nothing like a thing built with a true passion for quality. It's great when someone cares about the details.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
We All Had To Update Firefox Because Of Farmville Users
We All Had To Update Firefox Because Of Farmville Users
Is this really what the browser had become, a place where people can slack off at work with games like Farmville? I'm ashamed for us all.
Is this really what the browser had become, a place where people can slack off at work with games like Farmville? I'm ashamed for us all.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Gates ask billionaires to give away wealth
Buffett, Gates ask billionaires to give away wealth Reuters
Wow, this is pretty incredible. It's pretty obvious the capitalist system has serious flaws, all you need for proof is to look at the increasing disparity between the upper and lower economic strata, but perhaps, if rich people can do things like this, the world isn't a place where all that matters is money?
Wow, this is pretty incredible. It's pretty obvious the capitalist system has serious flaws, all you need for proof is to look at the increasing disparity between the upper and lower economic strata, but perhaps, if rich people can do things like this, the world isn't a place where all that matters is money?
Friday, May 07, 2010
10 Reasons To Delete Your Facebook Account
10 Reasons To Delete Your Facebook Account
Perhaps this guy is right, perhaps we should all remove ourselves from Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg does seem like a knob.
Perhaps this guy is right, perhaps we should all remove ourselves from Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg does seem like a knob.
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Tom Coburn Knocks Fox News, Says Nancy Pelosi is a "Nice Person" - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
Tom Coburn Knocks Fox News, Says Nancy Pelosi is a "Nice Person" - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
Here is someone who disagrees with the current administration but also disagrees with the nutcases at Fox News. I applaud his courage for speaking out like this, and I'm sad that such behavior is unusual.
Here is someone who disagrees with the current administration but also disagrees with the nutcases at Fox News. I applaud his courage for speaking out like this, and I'm sad that such behavior is unusual.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Mozilla Stops Development of Firefox for Windows Mobile - PCWorld
Mozilla Stops Development of Firefox for Windows Mobile - PCWorld
Microsoft, I thought you were leaving this silly anti-competitive behavior behind you. All you're doing is strengthening your competition. This was truly a bad play.
Microsoft, I thought you were leaving this silly anti-competitive behavior behind you. All you're doing is strengthening your competition. This was truly a bad play.
Monday, March 15, 2010
This just in: Twitter still sucks
Puppy! - Joel on Software:
Thanks for all the great articles Joel, and thanks for this jem:
"Although I appreciate that many people find Twitter to be valuable, I find it a truly awful way to exchange thoughts and ideas. It creates a mentally stunted world in which the most complicated thought you can think is one sentence long. It’s a cacophony of people shouting their thoughts into the abyss without listening to what anyone else is saying. Logging on gives you a page full of little hand grenades: impossible-to-understand, context-free sentences that take five minutes of research to unravel and which then turn out to be stupid, irrelevant, or pertaining to the television series Battlestar Galactica. I would write an essay describing why Twitter gives me a headache and makes me fear for the future of humanity, but it doesn’t deserve more than 140 characters of explanation, and I’ve already spent 820."
Thanks for all the great articles Joel, and thanks for this jem:
"Although I appreciate that many people find Twitter to be valuable, I find it a truly awful way to exchange thoughts and ideas. It creates a mentally stunted world in which the most complicated thought you can think is one sentence long. It’s a cacophony of people shouting their thoughts into the abyss without listening to what anyone else is saying. Logging on gives you a page full of little hand grenades: impossible-to-understand, context-free sentences that take five minutes of research to unravel and which then turn out to be stupid, irrelevant, or pertaining to the television series Battlestar Galactica. I would write an essay describing why Twitter gives me a headache and makes me fear for the future of humanity, but it doesn’t deserve more than 140 characters of explanation, and I’ve already spent 820."
Monday, March 08, 2010
Tea party candidates falling short - Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com
Tea party candidates falling short - Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com
Fox News, your tea party is a complete joke.
Fox News, your tea party is a complete joke.
Sunday, March 07, 2010
Frank Ahrens: Why it's so hard for Toyota to find out what's wrong - washingtonpost.com
Frank Ahrens: Why it's so hard for Toyota to find out what's wrong - washingtonpost.com: "'It is well-known in our community that there is no scientific, firm way of actually completely verifying and validating software.'"
A lot of people don't know or understand this. Finding bugs is a statistical game, and the definition of "bug" changes with environmental conditions.
A lot of people don't know or understand this. Finding bugs is a statistical game, and the definition of "bug" changes with environmental conditions.
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Chicxulub Impact Effects
Chicxulub Impact Effects
This website is pretty cool, it shows the effects on our planet of the asteroid stike that killed the dinosaurs.
You'll need to have Google Earth installed, along with a plugin, in order to see the maps, which are impressive. The asteroid was 7.45 miles wide and hit at 44,460 miles per hour, far in excess of the Mexican speed limit.
This website is pretty cool, it shows the effects on our planet of the asteroid stike that killed the dinosaurs.
You'll need to have Google Earth installed, along with a plugin, in order to see the maps, which are impressive. The asteroid was 7.45 miles wide and hit at 44,460 miles per hour, far in excess of the Mexican speed limit.
Friday, March 05, 2010
Good riddance to YOU - Fortune Brainstorm Tech
Good riddance to YOU - Fortune Brainstorm Tech
Even though I blog, I have to say I appreciate this guy's perspective quite a bit. There really is a lot of garbage out there, and what I generate is probably no exception.
Even though I blog, I have to say I appreciate this guy's perspective quite a bit. There really is a lot of garbage out there, and what I generate is probably no exception.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
'Spygate' teenager demands webcam pix from Pa. school
'Spygate' teenager demands webcam pix from Pa. school
This guy, 16 year old Blake Robbins, and his supportive parents, are heroes in the battle for personal privacy.
His parents are heroes for letting him represent himself in front of the media, and he's a hero for not backing down to the over the top emotional display Lindy Matsko, his assistant vice principal, recently engaged in.
From Blake: "This case is not about Ms. Matsko or us. It is about the decision of the Lower Marion School District to put cameras in our homes."
Video of Matsko: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/WebcamGate__Raw_Video_of_Lindy_Matsko_s_Statement_Philadelphia.html
Video of Blake's response: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/WebcamGate__Raw_Video_of_Blake_Robbins__Statement_Philadelphia.html
Neither are great public speakers, but Blake is 16!
This guy, 16 year old Blake Robbins, and his supportive parents, are heroes in the battle for personal privacy.
His parents are heroes for letting him represent himself in front of the media, and he's a hero for not backing down to the over the top emotional display Lindy Matsko, his assistant vice principal, recently engaged in.
From Blake: "This case is not about Ms. Matsko or us. It is about the decision of the Lower Marion School District to put cameras in our homes."
Video of Matsko: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/WebcamGate__Raw_Video_of_Lindy_Matsko_s_Statement_Philadelphia.html
Video of Blake's response: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/WebcamGate__Raw_Video_of_Blake_Robbins__Statement_Philadelphia.html
Neither are great public speakers, but Blake is 16!
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Let me Google that for you
If you use lmgtfy.com to search for the text "Let me Google that for you," do you cause a vortex that makes the universe implode?
Let's find out! Click here*.
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Let's find out! Click here*.
*Disclaimer:
JamieLaing.com and it's affiliates are not responsible for unintentional merge with universal singularity. Also not responsible if, in that singularity, you experience the rest of eternity within the scalding husk of a robot in hell, or get bored sitting in heaven, an endless hall-of-mirrors ride where you are forced to listen to Roddy McDowall forever.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything
Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything:
"Nanopool" owns the patent. Should a person purchase stock in this company?
"Nanopool" owns the patent. Should a person purchase stock in this company?
Thursday, February 04, 2010
New England Journal of Medicine Study Finds Cognition in Vegetative Patients - WSJ.com
New England Journal of Medicine Study Finds Cognition in Vegetative Patients - WSJ.com:
"Study Finds Cognition in Vegetative Patients"
This is amazing and, I think, reinforces what I said about pattern matching and sentience a couple of posts ago.
It's also tragic and horrifying, being trapped in your own body all this time, aware but unable to communicate.
Reader, you have much to be thankful for.
"Study Finds Cognition in Vegetative Patients"
This is amazing and, I think, reinforces what I said about pattern matching and sentience a couple of posts ago.
It's also tragic and horrifying, being trapped in your own body all this time, aware but unable to communicate.
Reader, you have much to be thankful for.
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
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