Monthly Archives: January 2013

Soccer Out of Context: the AL West

Soccer Out of Context: the AL West Soccer jerseys for the AL West

The Technium: Pain of the New

The Technium: Pain of the New 48fps film makes makeup seem clearly fake instead of tricking us like it does at 24 fps.

Improving Twitter search with real-time human computation

Improving Twitter search with real-time human computation Sudden events pose several challenges: 1. The queries have probably never before been seen 2. these spikes are so short-lived, there’s only a small window of opportunity to learn what they mean.

Blog: Sam Harris: Author, neuroscientist, philosopher.: FAQ on Violence

FAQ on Violence by (author unknown) Sam Harris: Author, neuroscientist, philosopher.

Blog: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Worse Than Nickelback, Better Than Gonorrhea

Worse Than Nickelback, Better Than Gonorrhea by Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Blog: Brain Pickings: The Science of Productivity, Animated

The Science of Productivity, Animated by Maria Popova Brain Pickings

Blog: Svbtle Featured: Response to Anil’s “All Dashboards Should Be Feeds”

Response to Anil's "All Dashboards Should Be Feeds" by Buster Benson Svbtle Featured

Blog: FanGraphs Baseball: The Speedy Tommy Harper And The Random Career Year

The Speedy Tommy Harper And The Random Career Year by Paul Swydan FanGraphs Baseball

Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Cleverness And The Common Good

Cleverness And The Common Good by Rod Dreher The American Conservative » Rod Dreher

Blog: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Of Sex And God

Of Sex And God by Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

IAmA Bible Scholar. AMAA. : IAmA

IAmA Bible Scholar. AMAA. : IAmA

Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Sexual Revolution: Symptom, Not Cause

Sexual Revolution: Symptom, Not Cause by Rod Dreher The American Conservative » Rod Dreher

Blog: I Love Charts: Hollywood Height Chart

Hollywood Height Chart by joberholtzer I Love Charts

Documenting the Undocumentable

Documenting the Undocumentable “So what do you put in the Quick Start guide?…Here’s what I’d like to see: What the developers of the software were thinking when they designed it.”

Rickshaw: A JavaScript toolkit for creating interactive time series graphs

Rickshaw: A JavaScript toolkit for creating interactive time series graphs

Sweden runs out of garbage, forced to import from Norway

Sweden runs out of garbage, forced to import from Norway

How fast could you travel across the U.S. in the 1800s?

How fast could you travel across the U.S. in the 1800s?

Blog: Via Meadia: Technology, Time and Space

Technology, Time and Space by Walter Russell Mead Via Meadia

evanrich/Bluetooth-LED-Sign · GitHub

evanrich/Bluetooth-LED-Sign · GitHub

America’s Real Criminal Element: Lead

America’s Real Criminal Element: Lead “As [drivers] asked service station attendants to ‘fill ‘er up with ethyl,’ they were unwittingly creating a crime wave two decades later.”