God Awful Things

Over at The New Scientist (which has just about made it to my browser bookmarks), they have an article called “Seven questions that keep physicists u[ at night.” Which is just another one of those lists of things we shouldn’t think about as it will make our brain hurt. It just reminds me of young [...]

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I’m not much of a twitterer, I have an account but haven’t updated it since I was in Chicago last winter.. but I have recently been turned onto someone to follow, and I highly recommend you subscribe as well… truly… amazing http://twitter.com/shhdontellsteve I will also add, I am going to be very busy at work [...]

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Don’t let the title fool you, I don’t truly hate Radiohead.  Why I remember back in ’93 driving down to Columbia, MO to visit an ol’ elementary school friend of mine and picking up Pablo Honey from Streetside Records.  Putting the CD in my $60 portable CD player interfaced through the tape deck in my [...]

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Over at The New Scientist, they’ve got a nice little article about then things humans do that we don’t really understand why we do it. 1. Blushing: Even Darwin struggled to explain why we would evolve a response that lets others know that we have cheated or lied. I think this is easy, blushing was [...]

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When I was a teen in the Iowa countryside, it would be an understatement to say there was nothing to do. Especially if you didn’t really care to participate in any sports.  So my friend Steve and I did what any self respecting “alternative” teens would do in the 90′s… “Let’s start a band, man!” “Fuck [...]

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Sorry to get all advertising and design busters in the ol’ blog lately, but whilst I go through my quantum physics desert of inspiration I just have to go back to the old reliable world of people selling shit. It is a well known fact I can get lofty and pompous when discussing design and [...]

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I have had Fuel bookmarked for a while, and I’m not even sure when or why I first bookmarked it, I think there was some article about uh, something.  Anyway, it mostly sits in my bookmarks unchecked because it seems to link to similar crap that Undrln does, only way worse. Both are something of [...]

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When I first visited Los Angeles I knew there was something different about it. It was like the sunny and 75 days made people just a little more chillaxed. No need to lay on the horn in traffic, man, cos you’re not getting anywhere any faster anyway. After moving out here I heard a term, [...]

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This post is dedicated to Strongo who just again marveled me with his amazing math skills. Strongo suffers from Gamblers fallacy. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman proposed that the gambler’s fallacy is a cognitive bias produced by a psychological heuristic called therepresentativeness heuristic [3][4]. According to this view, “after observing a long run of red on the roulette [...]

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Well, it feels like it’s been a while since one of those good ol’ fashioned quantum physics posts.. but much like the idea of then, that time has passed. From The Economist Since its birth in the 1920s, physicists and philosophers have grappled with the bizarre consequences that his theory has for reality, including the [...]

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