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Monthly Archives: September 2007

Don’t Taze me, Links!

Monday, September 24, 2007

“Don’t taze me, bro!” with a Monty Python twist! This anywhere.fm player looks pretty awesome The food families eat in a week. I may have linked to this awesome algorithmic art page before, but fuck, it deserves two links. Docking simulator Burning man from the top Awesome timeline of evolution Tree illusion God found out! [...]

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MySpace Photos LOLOLOL!!!

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

The iPhone… she is good for many things, but no so good for the vanity shot. What is nearly impossible is when you try that thing where you hold the camera away from you then point it back at you and take a photo — because there’s no real “button” to push to take the [...]

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Harrison Bergeron Redux

Friday, September 14, 2007

I just re-read the Kurt Vonnegut short Harrison Bergeron and found that in my first reading, when I was twelve, I had overlooked that the couple watching TV were Harrison’s parents. KV mentions it more than once, so my pubescent mind must have been so regularly addled with lust that I could barely concentrate. Funny [...]

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Success!

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Thanks to Forrest Young of UNC, my software now is well on its way to being functional. When I feed the program this matrix of flight distances between cities, and have it project that data onto a plane, it gives me this image: It looks like the US, which is exactly what is supposed to [...]

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Classical Multidimensional Scaling

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

I want to take multivariate data and represent it in 2-dimensional Euclidean space while minimizing distortion inherent in such a lossy projection. If there’s something on the web about how to do this, it’s proving difficult to find as there are many keyphrases that may or may not be used on such a page: Classical [...]

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Link Anaconda!

Friday, September 7, 2007

Dubai friggin’ explods in 14 years! I don’t know what this helix fucking thing is, but it looks cool. Purty Seeing this makes me feel better about my domain-buying binges. It’s all about the benjees, baby. Pretty awesome picture-zoomy thing. Poor man’s 3D. Everyman’s nauseator. Yet another place I’d like to go. A real anaconda? [...]

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At this seminar, you will gain new skills, including…

Friday, September 7, 2007

How to be Better, Faster, and Different than Your Competition in Bed. The Top 3 Skills High Achievers Must Master in Bed. 7 Ways to Keep Your Customers Coming Back for Life in Bed. Steps to Becoming a Stronger, More Strategic Decision-Maker in Bed. How to Master the Art of Effective Leadership in Bed. Salesperson [...]

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Someone Managed to Film My Nightmare

Thursday, September 6, 2007
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