The lugubrious, absurd and brilliant

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Terribly awful journalism. The joy of pursuing the absurd, people who read dictionaries. What is the role of character in society? Life at the bottom of the ocean. Amazing photos of the still virgin Large Hadron Collider. A quest to getting one's head around memory. More on memory palaces. A discourse between Benjamin Franklin and... the gout. Review (with pop-up ad) of a new book about Kafka. Article on the moral opposites of Dostoyevski and the Marquis de Sade. Geniuses aren't necessarily born that way. The lugubrious way of life of behaviour-modifying parasites. Mind Muphry's Law and think twice before you correct someone's spelling. The deceit of Amazon reviews. A dedicated pastry chef if there ever was one. Who really were the 'responsible' parties of the Love Canal disaster? Britain, like any country, has hordes of deeply befuddled people.

Better than dried clementines

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Some of these quotes are brilliantly funny. Redesign package for Gmail. The psychology of the Sims. Patterns arising from simple interactions, and its role in games. Something to wrap your head around. Loteries are used primarily by those who cannot afford it. The end of humanity? A small mistake can mess things up right good, as demonstrated over and over (images) again. We saw the heavy metal monk, but how rockin' is the Middle East? The historical mistakes of a great film. Interesting new research (obtrusive heading) on autism. Perception influenced by 'random' brain activity? Unsettling new military development.