Muppet Mashup: Mashups of The Muppet Show and Sesame Street by DJ BC. it’s no Santastic, but it is still pretty amusing.
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«I’m having communion with Desmond Tutu Friday morning. Eat your hearts out, suckers. I’m secretly hoping for a better picture with him than I got last time, because as you can see, I had kind of Mufasa hair in that picture.»
— Cape Town to Cairo to Cambridge: Random Encounters. My friend @shans being her usual awesome self.
posted 1 day ago on July 3rd, 2009 at 04:16 / ∞
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The Extinction Oscillator (Seed Magazine) →
By looking at the varying contributions of sinusoids of different lengths to the power spectrum, you can reliably make estimations about the trends within a data set. Music is a good example. If you examined the power spectrum of the sound waves of different instruments playing middle C, each would look unique—which is why you could tell the instruments apart. But each would have a big peak at middle C—which is how you could tell they were all playing that note. So power-spectral analysis is a very effective way to search for regularities; one has to wonder why it wasn’t used sooner on the fossil record.
posted 1 day ago on July 2nd, 2009 at 23:57 / ∞
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posted 2 days ago on July 2nd, 2009 at 01:45 / ∞
After Michael Jackson Died (Said the Gramophone) →
And for an instant that lasted ten thousand years he felt the exactly sufficient amount of remorse because God is a capable mathematician when it comes to remorse.
…i’m an awe of this, and reminded all over again what poetry can do better than anything else…
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Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces have developed a new process to put together nanoparticles directly in the environment that is being studied. Additionally, this technique has led to the creation of tiny “light bulbs” that can be attached to specific proteins, opening a new modality for visualizing biochemical processes. (via Nanotech Leads to The Creation of Tiniest Light Bulbs)
posted 3 days ago on July 1st, 2009 at 11:29 / ∞
The Not-So-Delicate Art of Shin-Kicking (Microkhan) via ascendingcoherence’s Reader feed.
posted 3 days ago on June 30th, 2009 at 12:21 / ∞
Case-Shiller: Anemic Spring Bounce in April (Seattle Bubble) Anemic is the word that best describes the last 12 months and probably the next 12, too.
posted 4 days ago on June 30th, 2009 at 08:32 / ∞
posted 4 days ago on June 30th, 2009 at 08:30 / ∞
(via fauxmo)
/ Why are there 60 minutes in an hour? →
To understand the units of time we need to investigate the number systems of ancient civilizations. How did the Sumerians count to 12 on one hand and to 60 on two? What advances did the Babylonians make and how did they use this number system for measurement? And what refinements did the Egyptians make to time measurement to give us the system we still use today?via Special Ideas Report
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