YouTube - Symphony 1 In the Barrel of a Gun - Emily Wells

Damn, damn, damn...



Clearly, a new name for the elopement list.

Wi-free? Not in Wisonconsin

Lifehacker about the Best Ways to Get Online in the Boondocks, which comes with a line straight out of Gibson (including a link, after the jump) describing how one bright frontiersman "bounces a 900mhz signal 37 miles from a grain elevator wired for DSL." Dammit, I want to live in Wisconsin!

dShed: The Harvest

Found through StumbleUpon - about five minutes of gentle, spoofish skittishness. Liked. dShed: The Harvest

Cold front's a comin

Damn, at last - cold weather is coming. Not this cold, perhaps, but possibly enough to nudge that long-wave circadian rhythm back into sync. It's been too warm. It's already past equinox, after all - we're past the steepest point in the clean sine wave of day length. But until the first good frost, I can't quite believe it. And I really need to feel the change.


via Failblog

In fact, it seems that the ideal pattern for change in many things may be very similar. Trying to describe this persistent need for change to one of the brightest of the boffins with whom I work (and at least one theory has it that these particular boffins are the original type form), I put into mathematical form. Roughly, I want the rate of change itself not to be a constant, but some sort of sine wave. Or - to pick another natural methaphor - like breathing. Contraction and expansion, separated by brief pauses of stability. We developed the idea for a bit, and then he pointed out we'd been through this before; that his strange models, of abstract entities cooperating in abstract spaces, predicted that this was the dynamic that most reliably led to resilience. Somehow, the winking patterns on his screen had got in under my radar, changing the way I thought. Or I may just be making a good thing out of what is. There may be no clear boundary between these two explanations.

In lieu of content - a pointer

Damn fine nerd/robot shlock (the credits to the game 'Portal', apparently). Class.



YouTube original

[edit] via http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/

Plantage - Under Byen

Flash animation piece, about 5 minutes long. Whimsical, melancholic, utterly wonderful. Also at YouTube.

Louis meets 'Korton'

Not just funny. So much stranger than that. Starts getting really interesting at about 2:00.