Throb

Where the hell was Mojo?

Kind of horrible. But I smiled.

http://www.collegehumor.com/

Why I love Reddit

WALL*E is pissing off fat people

bamobrien
In other news: Fat People Continue to Open Themselves Up to Ridicule

jkr0sc0
In fairness, they do offer a wide target.

barryicide
Well, I guess I know where you weigh-in on the subject of obesity.

carsonce
He's right, obesity is a very large problem.

brobak
Perhaps we should try to lighten up this heavy topic with some fun puns..?

darntastic
That would only minimize the gravity of the situation.

digitalistic
I don't know about you guys but I can't weight to see this movie.

Indierocka
What are they blubbering on about anyway?

brobak
Hey now, this is a big issue in some peoples eyes.

GooZshooZ
C-C-C-CORPULENCE BREAKER!!!

Streaming mobile music services

Have made this case so many times in so many ways in the last three years. Hope it catches on eventually. We were, perhaps, a bit too early.

Recursive 3D

Oooo.... this zoomy recursive 3D fractalish thing is cool. Makes me think it would be cool to try to tell a story through zoom. Would be kind of Buddha, no beginning, no end, just cycles. It could branch even...

I think it is good I am always I might be crazy

It's so nice to be working so hard again; I'm at a place full of fresh new ideas and it's got the spirit to chase them. Life is full of predators and competition and dirty nibbling bastards with noisome and poisonous beaks... but it's also full of promising new horizons and deliciousness and doggone it, people like me.

I've been working on a few things. One of them is my silly taking-forever robot project. The basic idea is to create armatures, systems, of counterbalanced springs and hydraulic or wire-tensioned levers to conduct organized work. I think, if carefully done, that even low powered motors and actuators and a simple PC brain can make such a machine perform elegant things in the world.

I went to Orcas Island last weekend and saw an incredibly inspiring sculpture park belonging to the artist Anthony Howe. Talk about a fresh vision. This amazing man lives super close to Seattle and, while there's some inspiring stuff in our sculpture park, very little of the the projects displayed come close to the evocative lusty and raw elegance of Mr. Howe's strangely natural creations.
All I want to do is take what Anthony Howe has done and goose it with a little technology.

That said, probably this robot project is taking forever because it has no clear goals or milestones: it's just a funky tinkerer's mirage. Like most of you I am a mostly blind blunderer intently focused on creating a knockout story in my own personal dreamspace.

Here's a good thing to watch instead of American Idol or whatever tonight: www.ted.net.

I have seen the future and it is neato

I've been a little out of touch as I've changed jobs recently, but I should have a real update soon. Meanwhile check out this awesome thing:

Needs a lobotomizing claw, but other than that it's almost perfect. Maybe duct tape a phone to it so you can control it remotely while you ever so gently take over the world...

5 years too many

5 years too many, originally uploaded by spring_peeper.

The Singing Tree

Children of the Cooooorn!

Starbucks

Meet Snickers!

Now with more nougat! And she's nuts.

FREEDOM!

R2D2 Tones!

Found this R2D2 site that lets you create MP3s for ringtones in R2D2s chirping language. Here's my name in D2ish. My geek cred continues to skyrocket.

That suspicion you're forgetting something

General insanity, like there's any other kind.

Frustrated because we're all acting like this will work.
We're all acting like it's raining gold, not magma.
We all seem to think that if we keep throwing bodies on the pyre eventually we will smother it.

Got a place for myself so I can scream without waking people up, then I had to get a roommate.

I interact with a world of ghosts. I try to say something nice or interesting or shocking to them everyday, but sometimes I'm distracted. Today I was lost in thought and completely forgot to flirt with the mexican lunch lady.

Must sleep with ex-girlfriend to get some kind of perspective. Or go on a vacation.

Latest geeky Silicon Valley web bubble 2.0 video thing

Pretty funny, I guess.

Visual Hiphopendia

"Differentiation of Fat Joe's Liquid-based Promiscuity" and other charts and graphics of rap lyrics.

Eye Candy

Gorgeous video from Flight 404.

More nature inspired art, photography and mathematics stuff:
Collective Perception

FAA Flight Pattern Art

More artful interpretations of flight pattern data here.

Mutual Replication

An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything

Garrett Lisi, surfer guy and physicist extraordinaire, thinks he has a better theory of everything: wrapping up gravity, the general theory of relativity and the standard model of particle physics into one model he describes as “Exceptionally Simple.” I read his abstract, and don’t have a clue what the fuck it’s talking about, but it is pretty cool he was able to raise a hell of a lot of establishment eyebrows while being an outsider... as well as come up with an apparently plausible theory that doesn’t require extra dimensions beyond 1 of time and 3 of space (although he needed a 248 dimensional model to do it). Anyway, some folks are saying this might be bullshit, or at least not very useful, but it’s pretty and has successfully distracted me from what I'm supposed to be doing right now.

Gorgeous Animations:
http://deferentialgeometry.org/anim/

Articles:
http://www.newscientist.com/...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/e...

Update

There's a better explanation of this model at Slashdot.

I also found a nice video from New Scientist.