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Re: As Beautiful As It Should Be

Decorating Small Space — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:54:35 -0000

Things look pretty bleak in Steffy's world these days on The Bold and the Beautiful. When she should be celebrating a clean bill of health, she is instead ...

Re: As Beautiful As It Should Be

Modern Dining Tables — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:25:56 -0000

He gets orders from Australia through a friend to do portraits. ... Art direction should be handled deftly so that nobody realises it is a set, he says.

Re: REEEAAAAD, ya’ll!

Banapana — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:39:21 -0000

Whaaaa??? That might take a couple of days to absorb before I can say if I liked that or not. I'm kind of stunned. On the one hand it seems like a parody, but that also seems to make it work well as advice? Thanks for that link!

Re: REEEAAAAD, ya’ll!

ruzel — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:35:58 -0000

Damn, yo. It's called speedstick, it's not expensive.

Re: REEEAAAAD, ya’ll!

Schweinharta — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:26:58 -0000

better? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Re: Is Information “Real”

Scj333 — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:22:11 -0000

I think you might get a kick out of softwarephysics, especially the posts:

Is Information Real?
http://softwarephysics.blogspo...

which relies upon the definition of information found in:

The Demon of Software
http://softwarephysics.blogspo...

Regards,
Steve Johnston

Re: I Love Being Right

Corina — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:59:40 -0000

Dear Russell,
I just saw your post regarding plotting error bars in R for the plot function rather than the barplot function at http://monkeysuncle.stanford.e.... Would you mind showing me what you changed in the code to make that work? I'd love to have error bars on my plot!
Thanks!
Corina
www.CorinaLogan.com

Russell W // Jan 26, 2011 at 20:10Wow. I even got this to work with a line plot I was doing. It’s a little artificial. instead of handing off the object assigned the line draw (like with what you did with barx <-) you can just hand the function a c() vector with the right number of points. Works like a charm. Thanks!

Re: As Beautiful As It Should Be

same258 — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:37:57 -0000

Infinity should be an absolute, yet the mathematician Georg Cantor came up with a ranking of different infinities.

Re: Counter Evolutionary Psychology Arguments Concerning Altruism Part 1

psychologist perth — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 03:50:23 -0000

Great point! It made me really stay here and read it all. I really like it. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Precognition—Paranormal or Perfectly Normal?

MikeMachina — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 01:27:23 -0000

If you had read Bem's study, or at least pages 11-12, you would know that Bem used one of two sources of randomness for the study:
1) The Araneus Alea I True RNG hardware random number generator
2) A PRNG algorithm designed by George Marsaglia of the Diehard Battery of Tests of Randomness fame

Both pass the Diehard Tests, a feat that even some hardware random number generators fail to do. Computers designed to crack crypto codes cannot discern patterns in sequences generated by Diehard RNGs, even over millions of bits. The human brain won't be able to find patterns in that, ever, let alone over a few short trials.

Do your research.

Re: Precognition—Paranormal or Perfectly Normal?

john lucas — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:20:29 -0000

Typical rationalist closed system observation. The statement "one would expect..." says it all. Since "your expections" define you and your world view you'll never experience anything "outside your closed system of rational thinking". There's so much more I could say, but why bother. Personally I get what your doing as I've an overly analytical brain. It's only when you find a way to transcend this process of observation (many avenues) that you'll have "a sense" that goes way beyond the concept of "knowing" and moves into the intangable realms. Sounds silly doesn't it? Big time woo factor. But it it what it is. You either live in "this realm" or you don't and most likely never will...hense this conversation is moot. I exist in both.

Re: Who Knew Amazon Was An Absurdist Publication?

mbt shoes sale — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:59:46 -0000

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Re: Music Industry’s Tactics (Impossibly) Become Even More Laughable

Juliefbexpert — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:28:25 -0000

SHAAAZAAAMMMM!!!!
This is a great and valuable post for all marketer's, Music has really done great and wonderful bridges that brings people closer.
My friend Jani has created a "little known" secret from siphoning traffic from facebook, none of the GURU's are teaching and it's working AWESOME!
speak soon Julie 'FB Pro' Jameson
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Re: Get Skeptical

ruzel — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:36:11 -0000

C'mon, spacematic, you know I can't tell you that without at least an 8th level clerical ninja to know that.

Re: Get Skeptical

spacematic — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:02:49 -0000

Okay. Then where's the quantum allergy medicine that will inform my intelligence that I need more energy?

Re: Who Knew Amazon Was An Absurdist Publication?

casey — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:16:57 -0000

Amazing.

PS: Why does your captcha make me add? Maths hurt.

Re: DIY Twitter Clubhouse

Casey — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:58:29 -0000

Great design and nice posts. Adding you to RSS!

Re: Piano, Meet Pong. Have Fun.

Potch — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:19:14 -0000

Definitely a piano meets pong environment. But one can make some interesting stuff. The gradual onset of chaotic behavior is rather fascinating.

Re: Holiday Music

Potch — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:08:59 -0000

How about celebrating 12/24, as "Sun Rises Again". The Winter Solstice, the historical inspiration for 12/25, varies from 12/20 to 12/23. Other possibilities would be Saturnalia, the original Roman festival period that ran from 12/17 to 12/23. Or in keeping with our need for acronyms, what about LDFS, "Longer Days For Sure".

Re: Monopoly; Repackaged

banapana — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:48:47 -0000

I second that notion. That's a beautiful design!

Re: The Most Frightening Sentence of the Week

Royleiu — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:41:00 -0000

favorited this one, bro

Re: Economics Will Never Compensate for Irresponsibility

Squigs — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:22:04 -0000

Imagine a world where federal bridge and road funding was available for replacements and new infrastructure but not for maintenance irrespective of ownership by the public or private sector.

Imagine a world where ownership and responsibility for these public road assets was transferred to organisations without the funding or resources to monitor or maintain the infrastructure.

The latter of these situations could result in the situation in Cuba where I was told by locals when I was living there that 1-2 buildings collapse every day - there simply isn't the funding or program to maintain the infrastructure - which is a real shame.

Putting both of these situations together could result in a situation where infrastructure was allowed to decay to the point of public danger in order to secure funding, which I suspect to be the case in Australia due to our three levels of government here.

I was driving throug the area the week that this road gave way crushing 2 adults and 3 children to death under a torrent of water: http://www.abc.net.au/news/sto...

This is horrific but the inquest doesn't seem to address the root of the issue (as set out above). Don't drive on any old roads or bridges anyone!

Coffee boy anyone?

Re: What the Campaigns Are Showing You

amanda — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:56:14 -0000

interesting article. coincidentally, I was on obama's website today and was totally impressed. it's really easy and clear and very well designed. I didn't know about sheppard fairey's poster- it's pretty sweet!

Re: Goodbye Andrew Olmsted

Banapana — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:45:19 -0000

Thank you, Gary. I fixed it.

Re: Goodbye Andrew Olmsted

Gary Farber — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:33:11 -0000

Olmsted. Not "Olmstead."