Archive for September, 2006
The Wikipedia article on Siphonophores has several awesome pictures by Ernst Haeckel: one, two, three, four.
An editorial in the New York Times outlines and deplores the key points of the new laws in the United States overturning habeas corpus. This is real Kafka stuff. Excerpt:
The Geneva Conventions: The bill would repudiate a half-century of international precedent by allowing Mr. Bush to decide on his own what abusive [...]
DailyEpisodes.com is an amazing website that surely can’t last for long; it’s got the entire runs of The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, and Futurama. (Oh, and also American Dad.)
I’ve been watching episodes from season 17 of The Simpsons. I stopped watching new episodes of The Simpsons years ago because I felt [...]
The New Yorker has a good article about string theory: the vague, messy, arcane Theory of Everything that makes no testable predictions but has dominated theoretical physics for years. Link.
Are they barking up the wrong tree? That’s certainly the impression I got from reading The Elegant Universe, but obviously I’m just a layperson [...]
An editorial in the New York Times outlines and deplores the key points of the new laws in the United States overturning habeas corpus. This is real Kafka stuff. Excerpt:
The Geneva Conventions: The bill would repudiate a half-century of international precedent by allowing Mr. Bush to decide on his own what abusive [...]
DailyEpisodes.com is an amazing website that surely can’t last for long; it’s got the entire runs of The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, and Futurama. (Oh, and also American Dad.)
I’ve been watching episodes from season 17 of The Simpsons. I stopped watching new episodes of The Simpsons years ago because I felt [...]
The New Yorker has a good article about string theory: the vague, messy, arcane Theory of Everything that makes no testable predictions but has dominated theoretical physics for years. Link.
Are they barking up the wrong tree? That’s certainly the impression I got from reading The Elegant Universe, but obviously I’m just a layperson [...]
The delightful Rod Quantock was on Enough Rope on Monday night, and his appearance on the show is now online. Link.
He talked about his ‘Bus’ show, which he explained thusly: “I take a group of people, who don’t know where they’re going, to visit people who don’t know we’re coming.” He does [...]
The delightful Rod Quantock was on Enough Rope on Monday night, and his appearance on the show is now online. Link.
He talked about his ‘Bus’ show, which he explained thusly: “I take a group of people, who don’t know where they’re going, to visit people who don’t know we’re coming.” He does [...]
Local band The Horse You Rode In On are performing at the QUT Gardens Point Guild Bar this Friday night at 8. If you haven’t already seen The Horse, I strongly recommend them. You really couldn’t ask for a better Friday night. Tickets are 10 bucks, and there are two other bands [...]
Local band The Horse You Rode In On are performing at the QUT Gardens Point Guild Bar this Friday night at 8. If you haven’t already seen The Horse, I strongly recommend them. You really couldn’t ask for a better Friday night. Tickets are 10 bucks, and there are two other bands [...]
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If only Labor’s internal structure would allow people like Evan Thornley to rise to the top. Or people like Kevin Rudd to rise to the very top. As it stands, I can’t see them standing a chance of winning the next election. Or deserving it.
I found a good tool for cleaning up the crap on my hard disk: TreeSize Free. It gives you a tree directory of your hard disk with the total size of the contents inside each folder; you can also view those as percentages. I just deleted about 10 gigabytes of crap that [...]
