November 2007
38 posts
Judge removed after jailing entire courtroom -... →
A US judge has been removed from the bench for jailing 46 people after none of them admitted responsibility for a ringing mobile phone in his courtroom.
“A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in...”
– Rands In Repose: The Nerd Handbook
Is it Christmas? →
Why we shouldn't drive →
this photos shows how much space it takes to transport the same number of people with automobiles, bus and bicycles.
Economics 101 →
If you spent $399 on AAPL stocks instead of an iPod in 2001, it’d be worth $10,000.
“When did I realise I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realised I was...”
– Peter O’Toole
Flickr has added "Places". Now you have a place to... →
Check out all the imaged for Saskatoon
Terror police 'shot' man in coma | BBC News →
‘A man who had gone into a diabetic coma on a bus in Leeds was shot twice with a Taser gun by police who feared he may have been a security threat. […] Mr Gaubert said he was told the police believed he looked “Egyptian”. ‘ — shadowfirebird
To beat the record, Roy has calculated that he... →
I still remember watching all the Cannonball Run movies back in the 80’s.
“A statistician, who refused to fly after reading of the alarmingly high...”
– /usr/games/fortune
“On average, Americans ages 15 to 24 spend almost two hours a day watching TV,...”
– To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence (other interesting and sad statistics one click away)
Virb Music →
wikipedia and education →
I remember my brother had an engineering prof that didn’t care if you could memorize the formula as long as you could find it in the book.
The Sun On My Right by The Rosie Taylor Project
What if drugs were legal →
T1 a Tumblr theme for wordpress →
Married != Related
Today when a student realized that my last name was the same as a teacher at his school last year, he asked if I knew her. I said that she is my wife. A few minutes later he says, “you know you two look a bit liek each other”. I said that we’re married, not related so we shouldn’t look alike. I hope I didn’t confuse him.
Free e-book Trigger Happier →
Trigger Happy is a book about the aesthetics of videogames — what they share with cinema, the history of painting, or literature; and what makes them different, in terms of form, psychology and semiotics.
The Future of Reading →
With the announced DRM enabled e-book reader from Amazon, people are questioning the future of books.
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WatchHow We Met. Cool stop motion video
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The Big Juicy Twitter Guide →
WatchI used sodium in class to demonstrate an exothermic reaction. I follwoed the directions the high school teacher gave me, but it was too much sodium and it caused the beaker to explode. Atleast it wasn’t 20,000 pounds of sodium.
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this way i think i can add tumblr to my wordpress feed