December 2010
12 posts
the first person ever diagnosed with autism. →
An old acquaintance named Buddy Lovett, who resides one town over, in Morton, Mississippi, told us that Donald had assigned him the number 333 sometime in the late 1950s. […]
[T]hose who receive a Donald Number seem to remember it for the rest of their lives. An indelible distinction, a recognition they’ll never have to share—it may feel akin to an honor.
That is almost certainly not...
the luxury of slowly falling apart. (sapolsky... →
amusing words about this article from ideafestival:
Having been implicated in a host of chronic conditions, stress is the repeated sweep of the horizon, the bug in our code, the shallow breath of our pell-mell lives.
Mindful? Most days, I’d settle for remembering where I left my keys.
Describing this thoroughly modern state of affairs as “the luxury of slowly falling apart,”...
“maður er manns gaman”
– fuck yeah old norse.
“In fact, West’s paper in Science ignited a flurry of rebuttals, in which...”
– Jonah Lehrer, A Physicist Solves the City.
the article "nondeterministic algorithm" on... →
read it, it’s cool.
“I wonder what the smallest garbage can I could put on my curb is that the...”
– Demetri Martin, Person.
“A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph...”
– Marvin Minsky, Why Programming is a Good Medium for Expressing Poorly-Understood and Sloppily-Formatted Ideas
Watchthis project is drawing closer to completion.
How an 11-Year Old Girl Convinced Lincoln to Grow... →
theatlantic:
In what has to go down as one of the all-time great moments of political image consulting, an 11-year old girl suggested to a fresh-faced Abe Lincoln that he grow a beard. And then he did. The website Letters of Note even has copies of the girl’s letter and Lincoln’s response. Beyond being the cutest historical footnote of all time, Ms. Grace Bedell, had some solid reasoning...