April 2012
2 posts
Kenyan Olympic Marathon Team
Kenya has gotten itself into a bad situation choosing their men’s marathon team this year. Kenya has a major problem in the marathon; they have a ton of very good athletes with no real guarantees that any single one of them can win on any given day. Kenya has 340 athletes who have run the “A” standard for the marathon, but a country is only allowed to send 3 athletes who have...
January 2012
2 posts
Clearview
UniversalHub pointed out another Citizens Connect complaint about the new Clearview street signs. This one made me think though, because the person said:
The capital A is out of proportion to the lower case letters, and it is visually jarring.
They go on to say the all-caps signs are more pleasant, etc. Most commenters, and perhaps the author, seem to believe the complaint is about...
July 2011
1 post
“Applied DNA Sciences, based in Stony Brook, N.Y., has a new technology that...”
– Fashion Fakes Get More Sophisticated - WSJ.com
Isn’t the point of DNA that it is easily copied? PCR anyone?
June 2011
4 posts
wtf? I saw outbound N owl service all the time when I would crash in SF… what is the joke?
merlin:
frakintosh:
For the first time in my life I just saw an outbound N. From my window.
This is what I’d imagine seeing an albino, gold plated humpback whale feels like. I did not know they even existed.
Weather balloon.
May 2011
1 post
Tons of moms at Tav and Sunset
getthefuckoutofallston:
Attn enterprising Allston dudes or ladies looking to Mrs Robinson it up this graduation weekend.
PARTY TIME!!!
April 2011
4 posts
“The current streak of Boston-area films makes this town look like a pit of...”
– Why I don’t leave my apartment….
ForEyes ads are local ads and local ads are fresh
March 2011
2 posts
February 2011
3 posts
“Researchers of Canada: pay attention. Get on this. It’s a fully funded grant opportunity in a very interesting area of research.”
—Lorna Tessier, director of public relations for Canadian Blood Services, quoted in the Montreal Gazette, on a $500,000 grant available for research investigating whether it could be safe for gay men to donate blood. In Canada, as in the United States, all men...
Answer My Question on StackOverflow →
I asked a question on StackOverflow and haven’t received a correct answer. If you’re a web ninja and can solve it, I would love you to death.
January 2011
6 posts
“I’ll continue to congratulate anyone who refuses to knowingly ship shit of any...”
– kung fu grippe: Things Communicated
"Daunting"
merlin:
Bill allows sightless to hunt with laser
Signed into law by Gov. Bobby Jindal, HB 39 authorizes the use of laser scopes by visually impaired hunters while hunting with a sighted individual. Prior to the law, sighted hunters had the daunting task of looking over an impaired hunter’s shoulder and then trying to guess if a rifle or shotgun was properly aligned to make a clean shot.
It’s...
Legal highs: the dark side of medicinal chemistry →
The title is a play off the WSJ article that it extends and responds to. Personally, these people disgust me even more than Andrew Wakefield, who this week is being exposed as even more of a fraud.
Ognjen Milatovic
So, on Monday, boston.com told us about an “Unruly passenger removed from US Airways flight.” This kind of flew under my radar because I didn’t care.
Let me quickly quote from the article:
Milatovic allegedly would not comply with a flight attendant’s instructions, refusing to take his seat and refusing to place his carry-on luggage into the overhead compartment, State...
December 2010
5 posts
What Is Money? - NYTimes.com →
I’ve always wondered about exactly what thismpost by Krugman describes. I’m glad a famous economist cleared it all up for me.
Michael Gerson - An Obama foreign policy win in... →
I really hadn’t heard elsewhere about Southern Sudanese independence, it seems pretty major
A hardy Constitution →
Fascinating book out of MIT
(via Instapaper)
Letter from Dublin →
Most people I talk to seem to have no idea that Ireland’s government is insolvent. Please notice.
November 2010
5 posts
WatchWhy Taco is the best character on The League
Images provide intimate look at Guantánamo... →
I’m upset at myself that I didn’t know about this back in January, but whatever.
Photographes taken by the Red cross of Guantánamo prisoners to send home to their families
“China’s reserves were last surveyed in the early 2000s, and the US...”
– The end of cheap coal
“More than 700 new species are described each year in Europe — four times the...”
– European bounty for taxonomists : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
The surprising physics of cats’ drinking →
October 2010
1 post
1 tag
Splits for Bay State 2010
I qualified for the Boston Marathon today. Thought I’d write down my splits before deleting them from my watch.
7:00
7:05
7:14
7:08
7:09
7:13
7:10
7:05
7:19
6:57
7:04
6:56
7:02
7:08
7:02
7:07
7:12
7:07
7:13
7:15
7:20
7:27
7:59 (took a piss in the woods)
7:38
7:45
7:50
1:29 (last 0.2 miles)
I got pretty damn tired there at the end and slowed down a lot.
September 2010
3 posts
Dog Poop Powers Lamp In Cambridge Park - wbztv.com →
Friends Provide an Epidemic Early Warning →
Follow social people for disease tracking. Makes sense.
(via Instapaper)
August 2010
6 posts
Technology Review: A Family Mystery, Solved by a... →
Well written piece that covers many of the promises and insights of whole genome sequencing
(via Instapaper)
I just shaved (with a razor) for the first time
david:
Observations:
I’m bleeding a LOT.
I can’t feel my face.
I feel like Lyle Lodwick.
I should have looked up how to do this before I started.
I still have never shaved with a razor. I really need to man up and learn
Fragment-based druggability measures in drug... →
Just in case there are people who follow my tumblr that are at the ACS conference, I’m giving a talk tomorrow. You should show up.
If you aren’t attending, it might be videotaped and put online, if so, I’ll be sure to share.
“What do we mean by time and space? It turns out that these deep philosophical...”
– Richard Feynman
Watch(via Jackson Run Bike to kindergarten. Video - Pinkbike.com)
July 2010
2 posts
Genes for Extreme Longevity →
Pretty awesome, 150 genes to say whether you’ll live to 100.
June 2010
4 posts
Tyson Gay hates being in Usain Bolt's shadow →
The Most Entertaining Thing You Will See This... →
WFMU’s blog provides a true gem.
